Strange Upside Down Lightning Phenomenon (Gigantic Jet) Explained

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the upside down lightning phenomenon
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[Xubono]

Mesmerised by the beautiful background images & videos near the start of this presentation 0:30. An intriguing work of art worth watching repeatedly.

[xxjediknightps]

I love how you explain things to those of us who aren’t educated in this stuff. Great job!

[kullanturner]

Thank you Anton, for continuing your content. You are an inspiration and I look forward to your videos each day. You help feed my brain with new and exciting information.

[CarlosDiaz-lhcm]

I believe I was once below one when it went off (i was in my house at the time); there was no impact on the ground and no streamers like usual, but the whole sky flashed with an intense brilliance, almost blinding white light, and it was pretty late too (bright enough it felt like it produced gamma-rays!). It was a very quick, but very intense white light that filled everything with its light, like an intense white beam. What was odd was how silent it was, until probably 15-20 seconds after an intense whooshing followed by an Earth shaking thunder. What was odd about it was that most strikes feel like they propagate through the ground and the sound simultaneously hits you, it gives a sense of direction as to where the lightning hit, but this one felt like it originated above the ground, and the ground shaking was from a shockwave, not a strike. A strike has a sort of direction to it, like a hammer hitting concrete you know where the hammer is hitting without actually seeing where it comes from. But an airburst has the whole ground around you shaking with no known origin. The airburst from this event was gargantuan, i wouldve hated to be anywhere up there when it went off. It felt like a large bomb exploded high in the sky, or maybe even a meteor blowing up. It rattled my windows, and normally only ground vibrations would do that, but this was from the actual boom of the event not the ground shaking!

This was during a particularly intense Thunderstorm near the tropics, and there were plenty of other lightning events occurring, many powerful ones too. But this one was so odd and so different from the others I knew it was something else entirely. It flashed twice, with the second one being more intense and slightly longer, but both flashes were fractions of seconds long. Nevertheless it still hurt my eyes!

It was either the bottom of a jet or one of those terrestrial gamma ray bursts. But it sure left me with an impression. I think what happens is that so much discharges into the Earth so quickly that the charges dont have enough time to disperse into the ground fast enough, leaving an immense charge in the air with nowhere to discharge on the planet, and giving time for streamers to reach the upper atmosphere where, while it is much further from the ground, it is enough of an opposite charge as to be a suitable medium for discharge

[chrismaverick]

Pecos Hank has a great video in which he takes a scientific look into sprites, bursts, and 'green ghosts' that he's caught on film while chasing storms. Worth a watch.

[lezivanerrol]

Hi Anton, love your videos.
During the early eighties I was involved in experimental telemetry between ground stations and stationary orbital satellites. Spent three years in the tropics experimenting with efficiency and reliability various frequencies both analogue and digitized ground to satellite and return. The upper atmosphere was an relatively unknown area to "traditional" scientists of the time. My company employed some atmospheric "scientists" to try and help us telecommunications engineers with the anomalies we were seeing.
I also happened to be acquainted with some airline, charter and ex military pilots. One of these previous pilots had flown the high flying U2 spy plane.
I can distinctly remember sitting in a cafe with the ex military and airline pilots arguing with the atmospheric scientists regarding the existence of Sprites, Elves and Gnomes. The scientist side denied such things existed even though the pilots had witnessed the phenomena first hand. The conversation ended up acrimonious. One of those pilots rang me in 1990 and was elated - he had a friend who had traveled on the space shuttle and that mission had photographed an Elve.

[Mekratrig]

Great vijeo, Anton. Have long been fasinated by sprites, elfs, and jets, me. Good to hear of rescent new discovaries.

[palica]

Another wonderful video. You are doing great work spreading latest news about astronomy and other scientific discoveries, Anton! Keep it up!

[nilo]

Thank you Anton for making this wonderful episode today !

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There may not be something "forcing it upwards". TLE's like blue jets and red sprites often happen after a positive lightning strike, meaning the top of the cloud gains a negative charge. The ionosphere is positively charged, so given enough voltage, a cascading discharge in the upper atmosphere can occur.

[zanb]

I believe there is positive lighting and negative lighting. The ISS studied the lighting that go up instead of going down, called Sprites. Pecos Hank has a lot of videos of these. I caught some Steve’s the other night! I thought they were weird looking. I have them in slow motion, so you can really see it! I’ve learned something new, Thank you Anton.

[brown]

This is a favorite of mine.
Cinematographer’s like Pecos Hank capture excellent lightning videos.
Sprites, extremely high speed cameras capturing lightning making its way toward Earth and when it connects. Some of my favorite things to see. Excellent topic Anton.

[-jeff-]

TY Anton for giving us your lightning ⚡️ flashes 📸 of genius!

[mandelabrein]

You should check out Pecos Hanks channel, he's a storm chaser. Him and some of his colleagues recently caught an even higher up phenomenon that they're calling "Green Ghost", because they're green

[amodernalchemist]

Hell yeah!!!!
*Sprites!!* I watched a documentary about these in the late 90's. It was pretty cool how they accidentally discovered this phenomenon too!? Fascinating stuff

[sillycybersnake]

Wow, a really long time ago, I watched your Universe Sandbox videos all the time, and now I randomly got another one of your videos suggested and I'm happy to see you're still making great content. Keep it up!

[coneyfloralis]

Simply Fascinating, thanks for another great video Anton!

[LiamRappaport]

I ran across blue jets and red sprites on the early internet ('02-'04) and have been waiting so long for new information about these to come out. It's wild that it's taken this long.

[witwisniewski]

In the late 1970s, my father, an astronomer, photometrist told me that on the clearest nights, he perceived that the sky occasionally flashed. His long integration photometers on high f/ ratio telescopes would not register the very brief flashes. We did see some together watching cloudless, dark skies. I think he actually observed Elves from storms in distant weather.

[forbidhro]

hope ur having a blessed day Anton, much love brotha