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Ball lightning and the mystery behind it. Great rare pics and more
Friday, May 30, 2014 11:13
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Witnesses describe ball lightning as fist-size floating spheres of fire that spin, hover in mid-air and sometimes explode. But despite accounts stretching back hundreds of years, scientists still aren’t sure what causes this spooky phenomenon or even if it truly exists.
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One of the earliest documented reports of ball lightning came from the events of a stormy Sunday in 1638. A parish church in Devonshire, England went up in flames and some of the people inside were killed.
