Earth Sciences: Meteorology: Weather Phenomena: Thunderstorms and Lightning: Ball Lightning

Ball Lightning links.

A large collection of stories submitted by "BL" eyewitnesses. Add your own report.

Maintained by Masashi Kamogawa, of the Department of Physics, Waseda University, Japan, this site contains information relevant to research on the subject of ball lightning and related phenomena. Also information on earthquake related lightning.

A meta-refence general page about Atmospheric Electricity, with a bibliography and links.

A short article in New Scientist without much new information.

A summary page about the phenomenon.

A not-commented partial bibliography about the subject.

An April 22, 1995 Usenet article discussing common characteristics of ball lightning reports and proposed theories.

Lots of information and speculation.

Theory accounting for the formation and major properties of ball lightning.