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BALL lightning has been described1–3 as an approximately spherical mass of plasma about 20 cm diameter, moving at 2 m sec−1 or less, sometimes rotating, emitting bright radiation, having a lifetime of a few seconds or less and sometimes disappearing explosively.
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WOODING, E. Ball Lightning. Nature 199, 272–273 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199272a0
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