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JENNISON'S report1 of ball lightning inside an airliner reminds me of an observation of my own. It took place on a summer evening in either 1928 or 1929 during a severe electrical storm in the Kootenay Lake Valley, 10 miles from Nelson, BC. The event, in two parts, was seen by a group watching from a sheltered porch and a second (of which I was a member) inside a wooden cottage in a forested area by the lakeside.
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Jennison, R. C., Nature, 224, 895 (1969).
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COVINGTON, A. Ball Lightning. Nature 226, 252–253 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226252a0
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