Yeah, there’s one paper from a decade ago saying they think a spectrograph was showing it. That’s the same paper another response posted, and the same one that

Yeah, there’s one paper from a decade ago saying they think a spectrograph was showing it. That’s the same paper another response posted, and the same one that kept popping up when I searched for evidence of it. It's the same single piece of evidence that someone brought up when ball lighning was discussed previously on HN[1]. It's telling that the Wikipedia article only lists once occurrence where scientists think they might have seen it, and devotes several paragraphs to it. I’m not going to say it’s definitively wrong, but when people are reporting it all over the place, and there’s only one scientific paper from years ago that says they might have seen it on the other side of the world a decade ago, it’s hard for me to take it as solid evidence that it exists. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552081