NEW FORM OF LIGHTNING Caught on Camera!

The picture above is a type of lightning called Ground-to-Cloud lightning, or upward-moving lightning captured last week in Kansas.  Visually, you can see it reach upward from tall man made structures and then blossom into the clouds. I have been striving to capture good, close video of it for years and last week finally succeeded beyond wildest dreams. 

SOMETHING ELSE WEIRD WAS GOING ON... Upward moving lightning is the rarest of strikes. I cross paths with it about once or twice a year, but last week,  amidst an array of upward moving lightning, anvil crawlers, and assorted positive and negative strikes was something else.  Something I've never seen, or even heard of. 

I DIDNT BELIEVE MY EYES until I finally got a chance to watch the video (2 days later).  Since then, I've been so freaking excited analyzing, researching, and preparing a video for you guys, that I'm probably sleeping less then when out chasing.  I'm not posting a picture here, because I want you to see it first in video context.  

I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE WORDING, but I think I caught a new "form" of upward-moving lightning.  I've been scouring the internet and chatting with a professor at the University of Arizona about it.  He sent me a  few papers.  By crunching numbers and data from two lightning detection networks (NLDN and SCADA) they concluded that (in my words), something fishy is going on.  There might be a couple videos in existence as well of this new phenomena, but I'll wager, nothing like what we have now. 

THIS NEW UPWARD-MOVING LIGHTNING APPEARS TO DIFFER from the commonly observed upward-moving lightning in that... 

1. Each leader (discharge) appears to have a low peak current

2. Comparatively close leaders emerge in clusters

3. They discharge simultaneously 

4. The source / situation that artificially promotes their existence (to be revealed in video). 

FOR NOW, Im calling them "Simultaneous Upward-Moving Clusters" and hope to reveal them to the world in a video tonight or tomorrow night.  How's that for a teaser?  Happy Birthday America!