Ball lightning is a rare and little understood atmospheric phenomenon. An Alberta couple may have just caught the best ...

Ball Lightning Still Feasible in Nature. ... "While hallucinations could explain some cases, the effect of ball lightning is yet feasible in both nature and the laboratory," Jerby said in an email.

Some ‘ball lightning’ reports may be hallucinations. Magnetic fields generated by real bolts could trigger visual effects in the brain ...

Ball lighting is still baffling, scientists admit in a new report. They think the wisdom of more than 10 fields of science will be needed to explain the bizarre effect. Glowing spheres of ball ...

Posted: September 8, 2007: Ball lightning - a cloud of nanobatteries (Nanowerk News) Despite numerous attempts, an adequate theoretical and experimental simulation of ball lightning still remains ...

For example, a group at Tel-Aviv University in Israel created a ball lightning-like effect by shooting microwaves at blocks of silicate. However, the effect only lasted for a scant 30 milliseconds ...

There’s an eerie and incredibly rare phenomenon witnessed by few that has long puzzled scientists: ball lightning. These flashes, which typically appear in the evenings during thunderstorms and ...

A 12th century sighting of ball lightning has been discovered in a medieval monk’s ... It is certainly a psychological effect and not, as the medieval observers believed, associated with ...