What are some reported observations of ball lightning?

[wolram]

http://www.electronpowersystems.com/Images/Ball%20Lightning%20Explained.pdf

Thought this may be of interest.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nice link, thanks Wolram. I added this to the Ball Lightning section of the Credible Anomalies Napster above.

 

[selfAdjoint]

I think I have an old post somewhere around here in which I suggested the form of ball lightning should be a thickened torus. I suggested it because the torus is the only two dimensional manifold that can support a nonvanishing vector field.

 

[NoTime]

There was a thread on sci.physics.research a while ago on ball lightning.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....ject:lightning&rnum=1&hl=en#90f40e0a5d2f0857
Some observational reports were posted in that thread, but I've seen additional ones from time to time..

Several observations have reported transport through aircraft hulls and windows.
I can't see these plasma toroids doing that.