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, ...

Tony Harris conducts an in-depth investigation into a rare ball lightning phenomenon captured on video twice, in this clip ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We're all familiar with lightning that goes from cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. The thin, step-like shaped bolt of electricity produces quite a bang as the air ...