Directory of Ball Lightning Resources

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• Archive of Ball Lightning Reports

  http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/bl.html
  A large collection of stories submitted by eyewitnesses. Add your own report.

• Ball Lightning

  http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
  Lots of articles and links, including "how to make your own ball lightning".

• Ball Lightning

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
  Wikipedia article about the phenomenon.

• Ball Lightning and Metastable Substance

  http://balllightning.narod.ru/
  Devoted to investigations and experimental modeling of the ball lightning and some related phenomena.

• Does Ball Lightning Really Exist?

  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040917.html
  Reviews the evidence and witness accounts of ball lightning.

• Far News: Ball Lightning Experiments Produce UFOs

  http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian/balite.htm
  Two researchers in a lab in New Zealand say their experiment may explain enigmatic weather phenomena such as ball lightning.

• Gradually About All

  http://www.stealthtank.narod.ru/
  The images on ball lightning modeling are presented. The material will be updated gradually in accordance with deriving new experimental effects.

• Irving Langmuir's Ball Lightning Tube

  http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/balllg1.html
  Description of an old experiment to produce ball lightning in the laboratory.

• New Lead for Fireball Riddle

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/628709.stm
  A BBC news article on New Zealand scientists who believe that ball lightning is little more than burning soil fragments that have been kicked up into the air.

• Physics : Great Balls of What?

  http://www.nature.com/nsu/000203/000203-8.html
  An article from Nature.com.

• Skeptoid: Ball Lightning

  http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4192#
  Discussion of the scientific explanations for this phenomenon.

• Smoke Rings and the Plasma

  http://www.goodfelloweb.com/nature/plasma/
  Beginning with an interesting comparison of the physiology of a smoke ring and ball lightning, leading to the development of a device to create ball lightning, this site continues with several well-presented accounts of the phenomenon.

• The Virtual Times: Unusual Experiences with Lightning

  http://hsv.com/weather/unusual/
  Unusual experiences with lightning and ball lightning as related by eye witnesses.

• Theory of Ball Lightning

  http://www.australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2000/docs/0006-02.htm
  Storm News article: "A Theory of Ball Lightning as an Electric Discharge" by Dr. John J. Lowke.

• Tornadoes and Ball Lightning

  http://www.padrak.com/ine/ELEWIS3.html
  A Edward Lewis paper, with the discussion of ball lightning as plasmoids.

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