Unexplained “Phoenix Lights” explosion caught live on news broadcast

yahoo ^ | Fri, Mar 9, 2012 | Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow

[BenLurkin]

Phoenix's FOX 10 reporter Andrea Robinson was in the middle of an on-air report when an unexplained, bright white explosion appeared in the distance behind her.

The strange blast was caught on tape and aired live during Robinson's report. At first, news station employees thought the explosion was a transformer. But when FOX 10 checked with local utility providers APS and Salt River Project, they were told no transformers had blown in the area.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Gulf War One]

I’m thinking arc welding.

[Fred Nerks]

SPRITE?

http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/sprites.html

A movie of a sprite is available (157K mpeg).

Early research reports for these events referred to them by a variety of names, including “upward lightning,” “upward discharges,” “cloud-to-stratosphere discharges,” and “cloud-to-ionosphere discharges.” Now they are simply referred to as sprites, a whimsical term that evokes a sense of their fleeting nature, while at the same time remaining nonjudgemental about physical processes that have yet to be determined.