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    BALL LIGHTNING

    Nov 03, 2021 2 minutes

    DURING A THUNDERSTORM in Horsham, Victoria, in the late 1940s, Norah Collins got the shock of her life. Her son, Craig Collins, explains that Norah was at home knitting when “a bright ball of light floated in through the window”.

    It hovered over her head, “prompting Dad to yell

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