Just curious on this dreary, cold and overcast day, but has anyone here ever seen ball lightning? I ask because I always thought it was pretty rare but another list I'm on has a thread on the subject just now and several folks are posting accounts. My favorite is shown below. So, anyone here seen it? patrick +++++ I have been lucky enough to see ball lightning twice. The first was a brilliant, basketball-size globe that bounced lazily down a neighbor's sloped driveway (after a nearby CG lightning strike) and dissipated noiselessly after a total of five or six seconds. The second was not much more than baseball-size, sizzling and spitting as it dropped out of a furnace damper adjacent to a friend's basement workshop (again, immediately after a very near lightning strike). Presumably, this one came right down the chimney and found it's way out the damper. It bounced slowly across the basement floor a couple of times, dissipating with a bang like a large firecracker and leaving a strong ozone smell. Startling, to say the least! +++++