For centuries, people have reported an eerie sight during thunderstorms: a glowing ball of light, sometimes the size of an orange and sometimes larger, drifting through the air, rolling along the ...

A digital illustration of a ball of electricity. (Vladlen Tian/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When you picture lightning, it tends to be fairly straightforward – a jagged gash of light that splits the sky, ...

Ball lightning is one of the strangest weather phenomena ever reported, with witnesses describing glowing spheres that appear during storms, move through buildings and sometimes vanish or explode ...