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Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies (Buy Now)

William R. Corliss

This volume is a major expansion of the first catalog in this series, Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, first published in 1982. So much additional information on luminous phenomena has been collected, that this new edition is almost twice the size of the 1982, that a new title seems appropriate.

Dozens of new phenomena are recognized, and we have added a great many eye-witness account (mostly from science journals) of low-level auroras, ball lightning, earthquake lights, marine wheels, luminous phenomena above thunderclouds, and, especially, lengthy coverages of low-level nocturnal lights (Marfa, Brown Moutnain, Min Min, Nekha, Hessdalen, etc).

Topic covered include:

Aurora-like phenomena
Ball Lightning
Diffuse Electrical Discharge Phenomena
Lightning Anomalies
Low-Level Meteor-Like Luminous Phenomena
Nocturnal Lights
Marine Phosphorescent Displays