Ball Lightning

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I like the "hallucination" theory (called "Transcranial magnetic stimulation" in wiki article):

>Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists

>Powerful magnetic fields can induce hallucinations in the lab, so why not in the real world, too?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/05/11/203417/magnetica...

(2010)

Doesn’t explain occurrences with multiple witnesses though?

Yeah, it doesn't explain all observations (when there is objective physical damage too). Just an original one, which I wouldn't come up with on my own when first reading about ball lightnings in 90s.

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