| Though a well-documented phenomena, ball lightning does not yet have a good scientific explanation. These glowing balls of light appear very rarely in association with thunderstorms. The ball can float through houses, vehicles, airplanes - even materializing through walls � or along telephone lines or wire fences. It�s usually described ranging in size from a baseball to a basketball, spherical and yellowish, rotating or changing colors. Existing for usually a few seconds, ball lightning either fades out or explodes violently with an accompanying burning smell. Some photographs exist and even electrical engineers have observed it. However, large balls of electricity have not been reproducible in a laboratory for study. Since even ordinary lightning still holds questions for scientists, ball lightning and other rare and strange forms of electrical activity in nature are mysterious. |
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