Graham K. Hubler, a physicist who studies ball lightning, describes an encounter when he was 16 years old."it's extraordinary-- you are so startled that you remember it for the rest of your life," he said. "IT drifted along a few feet above the ground, but when it came inside [the pavilion] it dropped down to the ground and skittered along the floor.
For years, scientists could not explain the phenomenon.
But a pair of Brazilian scientists may have finally solved it by creating ball lightning in a lab in 2007.
The pair suggested that when lightning strikes a su