The Ball Lightning Reference Guide

Our own drawings and a plain, sourced account of ball lightning: what reports describe, where good sources disagree on size and theories, and the 2012 spectrum recorded in Qinghai.

What’s inside:

- What reports describe

- What it is not obviously

- Ideas, not a crowned theory

- The 2012 spectrum, and a famous death

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 11 (A4) / 11 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.

Every fact is written in our own words and checked against named sources from Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Met Office, Physical Review Letters, Nature and Keul (2021) (checked 14 Nov 2026); the sources are listed on the credits page. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with its source.

Drawings are our own, simplified and not to scale. This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Met Office, the American Physical Society, Springer Nature or Copernicus Publications.

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