For centuries, witnesses have described luminous spheres appearing during or after thunderstorms. The reported objects may hover, drift, pass near buildings and vanish quietly or with a sharp sound, ...

For centuries, people caught in violent thunderstorms have reported seeing something that ordinary lightning cannot account for: a glowing sphere, often about the size of a grapefruit, that floats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a parking lot as if alive, then disappeared. Scientists to this day do not ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of Thor in Norse mythology or Indra in Hinduism. In Australia, lightning is ...