ENTIRELY NEW FORMS OF LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED UP TO 1000 TIMES BIGGER THAN ANY BOLT PREVIOUSLY SEEN. WHILE NORMAL LIGHTNING FIRES DOWN BELOW CLOUDS, THESE GIANT BOLTS SHOOT UP, STUNNING EXPERTS WITH IMAGES OF LIGHTNING 80 KILOMETRES HIGH.
THIS LIGHTNING, SIX TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN PASSENGER PLANES ARE DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND, MAY BE THE REAL KILLER IN A SPATE OF BAFFLING AIR DISASTERS.
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME WE CAN REVEAL THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SPARKED A SECRET NASA ENQUIRY.
WAS THIS THE PROOF THAT A HIGH ALTITUDE LIGHTNING STRIKE CAUSED THE CRASH OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA?
Title card:
MEGA-LIGHTNING
Source and Complete audio-transcript:
http://vimeo.com/26110990
CREDIT ROLLER
Camera
Andrew Dishman
Pieter de Vries
Yosi Leon
Michael Fearnehough
Sound
Ross Neasham
Geoffrey Willis
John Bradley
Music
Moonshine Music
Production Manager
Alison Cooke
Archive Images
Walt Lyons, FMA
Sunburnt Pictures
NASA
University of Florida Lightning Research Group
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The London Gliding Club
The National Grid Transco High Voltage Research Centre, UMIST
ONERA, France
The Historical Society of Cecil County
Mark Stanley
Victor Pasko
National Science Foundation
Penn State University
The Open University of Tel Aviv
Mike Taylor, University of Utah
Stanford University
Steve McCreevey
Chris Knuth
Research
Mark Tanner
Brandy Gee
Editors
John Gibbs
Tom Cordell
Executive Producers
John Drury
James Garrett
Produced and Directed by
David Monaghan
David Monaghan Productions/ITV West
