Over a single night, Angel An and Shuchang Dong recorded over 100 red sprites, bursts of brilliantly colorful electrical discharges known for both their color and ethereal patterns. Rarely seen ...

A rare type of lightning known as “red sprites” was seen flashing in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean near South Jersey earlier this month and captured on video by a space expert from the area.

The red glowing light was actually a sudden flash of a weather phenomenon called 'red sprite' lightning. Red sprites are said to flash above thunderclouds in the upper atmosphere, known as the ...