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WHAT appears to have been a clear example of globe lightning has been described by Mr. B. E. Waye, "Larch Gates", Altwood Bailey, Maidenhead, Berks. He writes, "At about 2.20 a.m. on May 8, during the height of an intense thunderstorm, I observed a roughly circular orange glow, about the same apparent diameter as the sun, on the horizon, in a southerly direction. The glow was moving towards the west and was followed by a horizontal column of white vapour. It took about ten seconds to reach a point in the south-west, when it disappeared with a flash; the succeeding noise could not be distinguished with certainty from other claps of thunder."
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Globe Lightning. Nature 155, 752 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155752a0
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