Cool timelapse footage captures a rarely seen sighting of column sprites.

The incident occurred on August 22, over Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, Canada.

Sprites are reddish-orange electrical discharges, preceded by a reddish halo, which typically last a few milliseconds, and are usually triggered by positive lightning between a thundercloud and the ground.

Greg Johnson, the filmer and storm chaser, told Newsflare: "This is a first for me and maybe the first time photographed in Canada.

"This is a timelapse video, meaning that there were over 500 sequential photographs that were then rendered into a video so that the movement of the aurora and stars is visible."

This video highlights the northernmost Column Sprites ever recorded on camera at 51 degrees latitude over Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba Canada. I was near Virden, Manitoba shooting north toward a storm over Riding Mountain Park. This is a timelapse video, meaning that there were over 500 sequential photographs that were then rendered into a video so that the movement of the aurora and stars is visible.

Sprites are (Wikipedia):

Sprites are colored reddish-orange in their upper regions, with bluish hanging tendrils below, and can be preceded by a reddish halo. They last longer than normal lower stratospheric discharges, which last typically a few milliseconds, and are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between the thundercloud and the ground, although sprites generated by negative ground flashes have also been observed. They often occur in clusters of two or more, and typically span the altitude range 50 to 90 kilometres (31 to 56 mi), with what appear to be tendrils hanging below, and branches reaching above.