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Ball lightning
R. C. Jennison, 1969. Nature 224, 895.
A radio astronomer's letter describing a glowing sphere about 20 cm across that floated down the aisle of an airliner after an electrical discharge during a night flight in 1963.
What it's used for here
The best-known account of ball lightning inside an aircraft, by a scientist witness.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Jennison, R. C. (1969). Ball lightning. Nature 224, 895. https://doi.org/10.1038/224895a0
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Jennison, R. C.. “Ball lightning.” Nature 224, 895 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224895a0.