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Close encounters of the electric kind

28 October 2019
Electromagnetism

This story is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/close-encounter-with-a-gigant… … on October 15th pilot Chris Holmes encountered lightning crackling around his aircraft – 35,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico (near the Yucatan) when a super cell began pulsing with light. It wasn't ordinary lightning but a beam of light creating sprites and jets – a gigantic jet issuing forth form a thunderstorm below. He video recorded what he saw – to see it go to https://spaceweather.com/images2019/25oct19/gi_video.mov (or click link on first link) .. or simply go to http://spaceweather.com and key down to October 28th for the story and pics.

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