For centuries, witnesses have described luminous spheres appearing during or after thunderstorms. The reported objects may ...

Witnesses across centuries have described the same strange sight during violent thunderstorms: a glowing sphere, sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and ...

Ball lightning – the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms – has been created in the lab. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the ...

Researchers have discovered what appears to be the earliest known account of a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning in England. Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have created ...

On June 7, 1195, a fiery spinning ball emerged from a dark cloud in an erstwhile sunny sky close to the London lodgings of the bishop of Norwich. Witnesses could never have known that the natural ...