What's the Scientific Explanation for Ball Lightning?

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Ball lightning is elusive. It's hard to document so much that for a long time, scientists weren't even sure it existed. There are some videos of it online but they're really not clear if they're fake or not. What we do have is like thousands of years worth of stories. But there's just not that much documentation of it.

For millennia, people have been reporting stories of mysterious spheres of light that glow, crackle, and hover eerily during thunderstorms. They’ve been spotted in people’s homes, and are even said to be able to pass through windows. No one knows how ball lightning forms — but that’s not stopping scientists from attempting to recreate it in their labs.

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