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A lot of people have been interested in ball lightning for over a hundred years (Barry, 1980). International symposia and workshops on ball lightning were held for the past few years. However, despite of many theoretical and experimental studies, a explanation, which describes nature of real ball lightning, has not been found yet. Among many theories and experiments, plasma fireballs have a high possibility to explain and reproduce a lot of witnessed reports.
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Ohtsuki, YH., Ofuruton, H. (1994). Nature of Fireballs Produced by Microwave Interference. In: Kikuchi, H. (eds) Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1829-7_49
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