There Is Some Mighty Weird Stuff Going On Up There

The technical term for them is Transient Luminous Events, and it's a good term. Transient, because they last just a few milliseconds. Luminous, because they light up the sky, but also because they invoke the radiant immanence of an Old Testament manifestation. Events, because—well, imagine you saw this. You would agree this was an Event. The most commonly observed TLE is a red sprite, an enormous