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Golka, R. K. Jr., Laboratory-produced ball lightning, /J. Geophys.
Res.,/ *99,* 10679-10681, 1994.
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    Abstract

For 25 years I have actively been searching for the true nature of ball
lightning and attempting to reproduce it at will in the laboratory. As
one might expect, many unidentified lights in the atmosphere have been
called ball lightning, including Texas Maffa lights (automobile
headlights), flying saucers (UFOs), swamp gas in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
etc. For 15 years I thought ball lightning was strictly a high-voltage
phenomenon. It was not until 1984 when I was short-circuiting the
electrical output of a diesel electric railroad locomotive that I
realized that the phenomenon was related more to a high current.
Although I am hoping for some other types of ball lightning to emerge
such as strictly electrostatic-electromagnetic manifestations, I have
been unlucky in finding laboratory provable evidence. Cavity-formed
plasmodes can be made by putting a 2-inch burning candle in a home
kitchen microwave oven. The plasmodes float around for as long as the
microwave energy is present.