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Whoa, green lightning?

by: Ross

Last night on the way back from the Nats v. Phillies game I saw (twice) green lightning. I mean the entire sky lit up green. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

But no one believes me — even though everyone else in the car saw it too.

Did anyone else see any green lightning?

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  1. Look, for all I know, it was aquamarine lightning.

    — Justin | @

  2. Did you mean “Greased Lightning?”

    — Sam | @

  3. link

    — nic | @

  4. also i looked around on flickr for colored lightning, and there are some pictures, but the color could have been added, so hard to tell

    — nic | @

  5. 3 words: green lantern corps.

    — midas | @

  6. dude, you can buy that in a can…
    http://www.evitamins.com/product.asp?pid=3924

    — Wolf | @

  7. I didnt see it that night, but I saw it last night, really late. The whole sky lit up green about 3 times, it was pretty wierd.

    — joshua Cohan | @

  8. Yes! I knew I wasn’t crazy. I couldn’t find anything on the inets about why green lightning would occur.

    — Ross | @

  9. I saw it at 5 in the morning and when I told my friends about it the next day, they thought I was nuts.

    — joshua Cohan | @

  10. I’m from New Orleans, and I’ve seen green lightning before, except it always happens during hurricanes and tropical storms. It’s real weird, looks like you’d imagine an alien invasion to be

    — Matt | @

  11. I live on the Gulf coast, and a couple of years ago, driving from Beaumont to Houston I saw green lightning. It was a dark lime green flash that happened only once, in a rainstorm to the south of me toward the ocean. It was a huge flash that seemed to originate in the upper parts of the clouds and spread out at or near the ground. I thought it was a meteor, but there was no mention of it anywhere in the news. It looked eerily like the image in Independence Day when the White House was blown up, but this was long before that film. It freaked me. I must’ve told 50 people about it, and no one had ever heard of green lightning, except for one Continental pilot that I met. He told me that it’s seen, rarely, while flying, and I recall he said it’s an unusual confluence of solar wind, magnetic field, and charges between clouds that will cause it, similar to the Aurora Borealis.

    — Rusty | @

  12. Found this site because I have just experienced green lightning! We’re having a wind & rain storm, and I was passing near Olympic Stadium in Hoquiam, Washington and thought perhaps someone was setting fireworks off somewhere (this does occur there on holidays). The flash seemed too large and “silent” for fireworks. I was headed west at the time. But when I arrived at home in Aberdeen a long green flash occurred just as I stepped out of the car - to the west. Again, no sound except the wind whistling through the powerlines and the rain. No mistaking it for fireworks. It reminded me of the silent “cloud-to-cloud” lightning I’ve seen in Austin, Texas - except this filled the entire sky, seemingly. ~~ crowblog

    — Crowblog | @

  13. My friend and i just saw green lightning and ran into someone a few meters later who had just seen it as well. It’s not storming here, it’s just cold and very windy, and we’re in the middle of the city. It was very odd. It flashed once and flashed again a second later and that was it. We have no idea where it’s from and I’m in the process of looking it up…It was really cool though and I wish I could have seen the whole sky, but we were walking underneath some trees at the time.

    — Lindsay | @

  14. Back in late March 2008 in Baltimore, MD, I was driving home around 9pm that night and saw a flash of green lightning. It was a vivid color and there was no storm activity going on, so it was pretty freaky. My friend saw it too and she lived about 12 miles away. It looked to come out of the sky and came halfway towards the ground and just disappeared. Nothing on the news about it.

    — Craig | @

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