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Let me enlighten those of you who have not yet heard of ball lightning. Ball lightning is one of those great scientific enigmas that bewilders the most profound scientists. There are countless characteristics of ball lightning, so it’s hard for me to describe it in a few words. In essence it is a floating spherical colored translucent-like ball that moves along the earth surface for a short period of time. Most people assume that ball lightning occurs during or after a thunderstorm. In some cases that is correct, but ball lightning has also been known to spontaneously transpire without the appearance of a thunderstorm. Nearly seventy percent of all ball lightning eyewitness accounts have been seen right after a lightning strike. There have also been several reports stating that ball lighting emanated from tornadoes and hurricanes. Let it be noted that during tornadoes and hurricanes, the electric fields are exceedingly high . Without any information on the occurrences of ball lighting, people would naturally assume that ball lighting would occur from the appearance of an electrical storm. But what throws their assumption off is the fact that ball lighting has been noted to occur without the detection of an electri