Ball lightning is distinct from will-o'-the-wisp.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Wikipedia and corroborated independently by Britannica and Today I Found Out; mainstream scientific consensus treats these as distinct phenomena with different causal mechanisms, though some informal sources conflate them.
Sources
- Ball lightning (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.00240 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2024/09/what-on-earth-is-ball-lightning/ (todayifoundout.com)
- https://www.britannica.com/story/does-ball-lightning-exist (britannica.com)