Editing Ball lightning (section)

=== Buoyant plasma hypothesis ===
The declassified [[Project Condign]] report concludes that buoyant charged [[plasma (physics)|plasma]] formations similar to ball lightning are formed by novel physical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena, and that these charged plasmas are capable of being transported at enormous speeds under the influence and balance of electrical charges in the atmosphere. These plasmas appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically charged conditions, the scientific rationale for which is incomplete or not fully understood. One suggestion is that meteoroids breaking up in the atmosphere and forming charged plasmas as opposed to burning completely or impacting as meteorites could explain some instances of the phenomena, in addition to other unknown atmospheric events.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.disclosureproject.org/docs/pdf/uap_exec_summary_dec00.pdf |title=Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK, Air Defence Region, Executive Summary |date=December 2000 |page=7|publisher=[[Defence Intelligence|Defence Intelligence Staff]] |website=disclosureproject.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422214024/http://www.disclosureproject.org/docs/pdf/uap_exec_summary_dec00.pdf |archive-date=22 April 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, according to Stenhoff, this explanation is considered insufficient to explain the ball lightning phenomenon, and would likely not withstand peer review.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stenhoff |first1=Mark |last2=James |first2=Adrian |title=Extreme weather : forty years of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) |date=2016 |publisher=Wiley |location=Hoboken, NJ |isbn=978-1118949962 |pages=227–228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnhjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA228}}</ref>