- Conjugate Sprites Project: Conjugate Observations of High-altitude Optical Emissions and Associated Lighting Activity
 - Description of the project and its experiments. - Coordinated Observations of Sprites and Other TLE From the Space Shuttle During the Meidex
(PDF) - Research made possible by the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 crew.
- Elves Triggered by Positive and Negative Lightning Discharges
- Article by C. P. Barrington-Leigh and U. S. Inan.
- FMA Research
- Consortium of atmospheric scientists providing basic and applied consulting services to industry and government. Discusses their sprites and lightning research at Yucca Ridge Field Station.
- George's Astronomical Observations: A Sprite
- Features a photo of a sprite taken from the ground and analyzed in different ways.
- Heaven's New Fires
- Discover article about the discovery of a new kind of lightning: towering, tendriled columns that rise above the thunderclouds, rather than below.
- High Altitude Lightning
- Gallery of red sprites, blue jets, blue starters, and other upward lightning phenomena.
- Look, Up in the Sky
- About.com article dedicated to sprites, ghostly flickerings in the ionosphere, and similar phenomenon.
- NATO Advanced Study Institute on Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges
- Summer conference held in Corte, Corsica, France.
- New Clues to Fleeting Flashes High in the Atmosphere
- SPACE.com article describing the basics and mechanics of sprites.
- New Mexico Tech's Sprite Homepage
- Studying the form of lightning discharges that develop at high altitudes and the diffuse regions of luminosity which occur high above energetic CG discharges.
- Optical Measurements of Sprites and Elves at Stanford
- Describes their instruments, the Fly's Eye, and their imaging campaigns. Also provides links to background and theory resources.
- Red Sprites and Blue Jets
- Dedicated to the upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms.
- Sky-Fire.tv: The Hundred Year Hunt for the Red Sprite
- Features a short history of the discovery of sprites, tips on how to search for sprites and blue jets from the ground, pictures, and more.
- Spirits of Another Sort: Thunderstorms Generate Elusive and Mysterious Sprites
- NASA Science News article about the quick red flashes of light that appear above storm clouds.
- Sprite Chasing From the Back Porch
- Offers an introduction to the menagerie of strange, luminous, lightning-related flashes that dance high above thunderstorm tops and can be observed with the naked eye.
- Sprites
- Upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms that have only recently been documented using low light level television technology.
- Sprites and Elves
- Upper atmospheric lightning phenomena observed from Langmuir Lab and Kennedy Space Centre.
- Sprites and Jets
- NASA's page on these upper atmospheric flash phenomena.
- The Role of the Space Shuttle Videotapes in the Discovery of Sprites, Jets and Elves
- Paper discussing how the late 1980s and early 1990s observations from the Space Shuttle helped further the understanding of sprites, jets, and elves.
- Three Dimensional Simulations of Sprites and Elves
- Animation gallery showing the formation of elves and sprites.
- Very Low Frequency (VLF) Research Group - Stanford University
- Investigating the Earth's electrical environment, lightening discharges, and the ionized regions of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.
- What's Up There: A Brief History on the Discovery of Sprites, Jets, and Elves and How to Observe These Type Phenomena From Your Own Observing Location
- Article by Otha H. Vaughan, Jr. and Walter A. Lyons.
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