• DOI:10.1038/224895a0
Corpus ID: 4271920

Ball Lightning

@article{Jennison1969BallL,
  title={Ball Lightning},
  author={R. Jennison},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1969},
  volume={224},
  pages={895}
}

• R. Jennison
• Published 1969
• Nature

THIS communication records the observation of ball lightning in unusual circumstances. I was seated near the front of the passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA 539) on a late night flight from New York to Washington. The aircraft encountered an electrical storm during which it was enveloped in a sudden bright and loud electrical discharge (0005 h EST, March 19, 1963). Some seconds after this a glowing sphere a little more than 20 cm in diameter emerged from the… Expand

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