[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[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.