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Summary

This photo of ball lightning was (allegedly) taken by a student in Nagano, Japan in 1987.

A cropped version of the above image is available

Source image here: [1] and [2]

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article " Ball lightning" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([3]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

[edit] Fair Use Rationale

It is used to illustrate the article Ball lightning
It does not harm any personnel and/or organizations
It is not replaceable

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:56, 5 January 2008	480×339 (11 KB)	Equazcion (Talk \| contribs)	(Copied from Russian Wikipedia at http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5:Ball_lightning_appears.jpg.)