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"The lightning of the Catatumbo - over the delta of the river of the same name, which begins in north-eastern Colombia and flows among marshes and lagoons into Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela - is a cloud-to-cloud electrical storm, linked to a permanent low pressure in the area, rich in methane that is set alight and glows.
The Catatumbo has lightning 140 to 160 nights per year, lasting about seven hours...researcher Angel Mu?oz, of the regional University of Zulia, suggests that there is kerogen (a mixture of organic compounds found in sedimentary rocks) in the subsoil of the lagoons of dark waters between the neighbouring Bravo and Catatumbo rivers.
Controversial. "After a two-year study, they concurred with Dr. Manas that the fireballs are caused by the sun warming organic matter on the riverbed, causing it to decompose into flammable phosphine and methane gas and combust in the presence of ionised atomic oxygen. This explains why the fireballs are of uniform colour, do not emit flares, smoke or sound, and eventually dissipate without a trace...But the committee sidestepped the question of how the fermented matter could form in swiftly-running water." http://www.tatnews.org/events/events/2009/oct/4137.asp
