[RappingBoomer]

in the 1960s in San Antonio Texas an orange sphere about the size of a baseball floated into my aunt's kitchen and vanished with an audible pop over her stove... researchers have been studying these things for decades in northern Norway...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lights

they seem to be a product of interactions between the soil, the sun, the atmosphere and the Earth's magnetic field

[ncmncm]

This fascinating: a place where they happen almost often enough to study.

Hessenden is a good companion for Lake Maracaibo, in Venezuela, that sees hundreds or thousands of lightning strikes per hour on almost half of nights. Some people fish by their light. I have seen a claim that the strikes do not make thunder, contradicted by the name "catatumbo" that means "house of thunder".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning