Dazzling video shows rare ‘red lightning’ exploding over Tibet

One night in May 2022, two astrophotographers camping near Lake Puma Yumco in Tibet caught something extraordinary on film: bursts of glowing red lightning dancing in the sky. These weren’t UFOs or camera glitches, though, they were red sprites, a rare form of upper-atmosphere lightning that flashes silently in the skies above powerful storms.

The video they captured featured 105 red sprites over Tibet, making it the most ever documented over South Asia. Even more impressive, though, is that nearly half of them performed a strange...