There is a story towards the end of the article which is fascinating.

"A dramatic report of ball lightening comes from a housewife in the Midlands are of England on August 8, 1975. She was in her kitchen in Smethwick during a very strong thunderstorm. A sphere of light about ten centimeters in diameter and surrounded by a bright purple halo appeared over the stove.

The witness is quoted in saying, 'The ball seemed to hit me below the belt, as it were, and I automatically brushed it away from me and it disappeared. Where I brushed it away there appeared a redness and swelling on my left hand. It seemed as if my gold wedding ring was burned into my finger.' She also reported that it vanished with a bang."

nice pics

yeah they are amazing... It reminded me of a night in December last year when a friend was visiting and there was this amazing electrical storm happening on the horizon - it was lighting up the whole sky and you could see it moving off into the distance. Quite stunning.

When my mom was a little girl her house was hit by lightning and my grandmother had burn marks all over her legs from little balls of lightning that were bouncing off nails.

WOW! that would have been freaky