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Whatzit for Fredzky

12/18/2015 9:22 AM

Keeping the trend for images in the sky I offer the following rare phenomenon.

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12/18/2015 9:37 AM

Al Gore's mansion when he had his "coming out" party?

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12/18/2015 9:59 AM

Ancient alien theorists would say "Alien jellyfish leaving the atmosphere".

I say pixie, or lightning from cloud top to upper atmosphere.

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12/18/2015 11:11 AM

Pixie's are a bit different, but you get a cookie for being close : )

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12/18/2015 10:04 AM

It's called a Red Sprite

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12/18/2015 11:12 AM

It is a red sprite, quite a good image of one...what I wouldn't give to work on the space station.

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12/18/2015 10:06 AM

That's a Red Sprite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

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12/18/2015 10:58 AM

Here's another teaser, who knows?

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12/18/2015 11:10 AM

I would say a comet but the sun appears to be behind it. So, upper atmosphere or out of the atmosphere rocket plume?

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12/18/2015 12:36 PM

Is it Tim Peake headed for the space station?

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12/18/2015 7:34 PM

Quite right, captured by a Lufthansa pilot.

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12/18/2015 1:56 PM

Bolide.

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12/18/2015 4:57 PM

Haleys comet going backwards
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12/19/2015 2:48 PM

Missile test launch, arriving over the Pacific ? Saw a similar shot from a Local Taffic helicopter , early dawn, the other morning
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