Oklahoma now boasts the first Gigantic Jet captured on film in the continental U.S.

Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of Gigantic Jets, or Carrot Sprites, before. We’ve only known about them for a short time.

… the “discovery” can be traced to 6 July 1989 when University of Minnesota Physics Professor John R. Winckler was testing a low-light video camera for an upcoming research rocket flight.

Makes a person wonder how much other natural phenomena happens around us that we don’t notice.

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