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Websites in Ball Lightning

1. 130 Ball Lightning Links
   Ball Lightning links.
   http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/ball-lighting.html
   
   
2. Archive of Ball Lightning reports
   A large collection of stories submitted by "BL" eyewitnesses. Add your own report.
   http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/bl.html
   
   
3. Atmospheric Electricity
   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.
   http://faculty.web.waseda.ac.jp/kamogawa/
   
   
4. Atmospheric Electricity HomePage
   A meta-refence general page about Atmospheric Electricity, with a bibliography and links.
   http://ae.atmos.uah.edu/
   
   
5. Ball Lighntning
   A short article in New Scientist without much new information.
   http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991720
   
   
6. Ball Lightning
   A summary page about the phenomenon.
   http://www.tbns.net/mediapoet/tech19b.htm
   
   
7. Ball Lightning Discussion
   An April 22, 1995 Usenet article discussing common characteristics of ball lightning reports and proposed theories.
   http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/balligh.html
   
   
8. Ball Lightning Discussion - Chukanov Energy, Inc.
   Lots of information and speculation.
   http://www.chukanovenergy.com/bl/
   
   
9. Ball Lightning bibliography
   A not-commented partial bibliography about the subject.
   http://www.fis.unipr.it/~albino/documenti/Bibliografia_BL.html
   
   
10. Eddy Current Model of Ball Lightning
    Theory accounting for the formation and major properties of ball lightning.
    http://www.geocities.com/jaydshelton/
    
    
11. Far News: Ball Lightning Experiments Produce UFOs
    Two researchers in a lab in New Zealand say their experiment may explain enigmatic weather phenomena such as ball lightning.
    http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian/balite.htm
    
    
12. New Lead for Fireball Riddle
    A BBC news article on New Zealand scientists who believe that ball lightning is little more than burning soil fragments that have been kicked up into the air.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/628709.stm
    
    
13. Physics : Great Balls of What?
    An article from Nature.com.
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/000203/000203-8.html
    
    
14. Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Ball Lightning
    According to a statistical investigation, approximately 5% of the world population have witnessed ball lightning. Various physical theories are presented here, but none have been proven yet.
    http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000CB330-61BF-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7
    
    
15. The Truth About Ball Lightning
    Read fabulously absurd truths and untruths about ball lightning.
    http://tangmonkey.com/balllight/
    
    
16. The Virtual Times: Unusual Experiences with Lightning
    Unusual experiences with lightning and ball lightning as related by eye witnesses.
    http://hsv.com/weather/unusual/
    
    
17. Theory of Ball Lightning
    Storm News article: "A Theory of Ball Lightning as an Electric Discharge" by Dr. John J. Lowke.
    http://www.australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2000/docs/0006-02.htm
    
    
18. Tornadoes and Ball Lightning
    A Edward Lewis paper, with the discussion of ball lightning as plasmoids.
    http://www.padrak.com/ine/ELEWIS3.html
    
    

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