Accounts of Ball Lightning - Two accounts of a strange light in the sky, one in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, the other observed in Connecticut, United States.
Atmospheric Electricity - Maintained by Masashi Kamogawa, of the Department of Physics, Waseda University, Japan, this site contains information relevant to reasarch on the subject of ball lightning and related phenomena. Although you will be prompted to download the Japanese character set, the majority of the text on this site is in English.
Ball Lightning - Numerous articles and links to sites relating to the phenomenon of ball lightning, including a section on "how to make your own ball lightning".
Ball Lightning and Science - A discussion of how the scientific establishment view, held until recently, that "there is no such thing as ball lightning" created a vicious circle where people were afraid to report it.
Ball Lightning Discussion - An April 22, 1995 Usenet article discussing common characteristics of ball lightning reports and proposed theories.
Cabbot Sanders - CAS LABS, devoted to Ball lightning research. The purpose is to gather interest in some radical new discoveries in modern physics... which makes possible the design of a safe, portable, clean, "low temperature", nuclear fusion reactor that promises to be more efficient than any known power source devised since the beginning of history.
Cracked it - The text of a New Scientist article on the subject of ball lightning, September 26, 1998.
International Symposium on Ball Lightning - An excellent source for research on the subject of ball lightning. Includes information about the organization as well as links to papers and abstracts on the subject.
Microwave Phenomenon Page - Ball lightning experiments that can be conducted in a microwave, including clear instructions.
My Science Project - By Jet Black; a recipe for creating ball lightning in a microwave oven.
New Lead for Fireball Riddle - A February 2, 2000 BBS news article on New Zealand scientists who believe that ball lightning is little more than burning soil fragments that have been kicked up into the air.
Planetophysical Function of Vacuum Domains - By A.N. Dmitriev, V.L. Dyatlov, and A.V. Tetenov of the Geology institute UIGGM, Mathematics institute SB RAS, Gorno-Altaisk state University. The authors have developed a model of united electrogravidynamics based on the Maxwell's electrodynamics and Heaviside's (Minkovski's, Poincare's) gravidynamics. The model introduces a new object of study - a vacuum domain.
Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Ball Lightning - According to a statistical investigation, approximately 5% of the world population have witnessed ball lightning. Various physical theories are presented here, but none have been proven yet.
Smoke Rings and the Plasma - Beginning with an interesting comparison of the physiology of a smoke ring and ball lightning, leading to the development of a device to create ball lightning, this site continues with several well-presented accounts relating toe ball lightning.
The Virtual Times: Unusual Experiences with Lightning - Unusual experiences with lightning and ball lightning as related by eye witnesses.
Tornadoes and Ball Lightning - A paper by Edward Lewis, written September 7, 1995 and revised July 22, 1996 and August 20, 1996. A discussion of ball lightning, including links to other references on the subject.
Unusual Phenomea Reports: Ball Lightning - Amazing eyewitness reports of ball lightning, with a facility to send in your own report online.
Weather - Ball Lightning - An animation of ball lightning, presented in Qick Time movie format.