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NASA explains 'red jellyfish' lights after storm stirs alien buzz

When a thunderstorm recently lit up the night sky, cameras captured towering red shapes that looked uncannily like glowing jellyfish hanging above the clouds. The images raced across social media, and ...
PetaPixel

Photographer Captures Enormous Red Sprite in the Sky and Perseid Meteor Shower

A photographer has captured a remarkable image showing a giant red sprite that appeared on the night of the Perseid meteor shower which he also caught on camera. Paul Smith photographed the stunning ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How to Spot Elusive ‘Jellyfish Sprites’ Dancing in the Sky During a Thunderstorm

Dark skies specialist Stephen Hummel of the University of Texas at Austin captured this rare formation at the McDonald Observatory. Stephen Hummel If you see a thunderstorm in the distance late at ...
Seattle Times

Elusive red sprites, like glowing jellyfish in the night sky, photographed in Oklahoma

Have you ever seen a giant red jellyfish light up the night sky for a split second? If you have, you’re not imagining things. You’ve just witnessed a lightning-like electrical discharge high in the ...