Stephen James O'Meara's Secret Sky: Phantasmagoria: transient luminous events
June 2010: Seeing strange lights in the sky doesn't necessarily mean you're imagining things.
Contributed by Stephen James O'Meara
Published:
April 26, 2010
 The author saw his first sprite on December 5, 2005. He created this photo-illustration (the stars shown here were not the real stars he saw the phenomenon against) to demonstrate the dim object's appearance and superlative size. "Seeing this 'phantom jellyfish' made me question my sanity," the author jokes. "It was that freakish."
Photo by Stephen James O’Meara |
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