sprite halo

sprite halo (plural sprite halos or sprite haloes)

1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, diffuse disk shaped glows that precede sprites and propagate downward
   • 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges‎:

     In lhe: early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."

• blue starter
• bluejet
• elve
• gigantic jet
• gnome
• pixie
• red sprite
• sprelve
• sprite
• transient luminous events
• troll
• upward lightning

• astrophile, hospitaler, trophesial