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For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms

2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (280+ words) Some sightings turned deadly. In 1638 a fireball reportedly tore through a church in Devon, killing four people and hurling stones from the walls. In 1753 a Russian physicist named Georg Richmann, flying a kite to study storms as Benjamin Franklin had…...