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Old 07-02-2008, 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by 67champ View Post
could have been a phenomenon known as "Ball Lightening" I think it's called.

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Ball lightning is slightly contriversal and there has been little studied on it because it is rare, but you need to have clouds to produce it like all lightning. Well, that's not all true. You can get high atmospheric lightning occuring in the ionosphere above clouds.

Some pictures of Ball lightning:
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?i...&ct=image&cd=3
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