Purple jet caught in the lens
A rare photo was taken by photographer Jeff Miles in the small town of Pilbara in western Australia. He photographed a cloud, which seemed very expressive to him. And a kind of lightning hit the frame. This "likeness" shot upward.
Purple jet appeared for a split second
As the experts explained, Jeff captured one of the inhabitants of the Earth's ionosphere. Elves, tigers, lilac jets, sprites - this is how the representatives of this ghost family are called. They appear high above the Earth - higher than ordinary lightning, fly into near space, demonstrating that there is some kind of electromagnetic life.
Upon closer inspection, it is noticeable that the “ lightning ” and not lightning at all
The ghostly inhabitants of near-earth space are very fast. Shown for thousandths of a second. As a rule, only long night vigils on mountain tops and on board orbiters allow them to be photographed. So the shot of Jeff is a big stroke of luck.
Previously, pilots regularly reported on night ghosts. But the scientists didn't believe. Equated their testimonies with UFO reports. The first confirmation that the outbreaks are not fantasized came in the 1970s. Only at the beginning of this century, scientists managed to obtain the first images of mysterious objects. And understand their appearance.
The elves flare up in a huge reddish ring. The sprites look like blue jellyfish. The red jellyfish that appear below the sprites are tigers. Purple jets - the lowest-living of all ionospheric inhabitants - look like purple or purple fountains. An Australian photographer accidentally caught one of these.
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One of the first more or less successful pictures of a jet. It was made by scientists in the summer of 2005 in Colorado (USA). Filmed by employees of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Their camera took 5 thousand frames per second