[Shermy]

This January 20, 2003 story for discussion in light of:

S.F. man's astounding photo Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia (Feb. 5)

Boot Hill and Sabertooth first suggested sprites in the thread. I remembered Blam's thread about this shuttle actually investigating sprites.

Blam's January 21 thread:

Shuttle Mission Zooms In On Electrifying Data ("Elfs")

[Shermy]

Lightning ping.

[aristeides]

It was for experiments like these that seven astronauts risked their lives?

[Boot Hill]

Thanks for the credit (although Sabertooth's post had far more info than mine).

It will be real interesting to see what NASA makes out of the photos that CA astronomer captured. Part of the problem for them will be the dearth of knowledge about sprites, jets and elves. All the speculation about damaged tiles might just turn out to be a blind alley.

--Boot Hill

[mrsmith]

muawiyah suggested it in this earlier thread.