Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — Globular Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Globular Lightning.

Yesterday the inhabitants of Lewisham were provided with a specimen of that curious phenomenon known as “globular lightning." It is what is commonly called the “fire ball." and as It persists for several seconds It Is obviously of a-totally different character from any other form of lightning. It is much less brilliant than ordinary lightning, and its brightness appears to be that of Iron at the “red hot” stag* * It Is not, as some accounts might lead one to Infer, a solid missile, but It is always spherical and appears to fall from a thunder cloud by its own gravity, sometimes rebounding after striking the ground.—London Glob*