you can see multiple lightning bolts here. scientists have discovering it's not always visible. it's this phenomenon called dark light nij and apparently it's just as powerful. chad myers, dark lightning. what is it? more powerful in a different way. for a long time we know that thunderstorms produce gamma rays and x-rays. we didn't know where the rays were coming from. and obviously for a long time, we knew about lightning. volts, amps, it can kill you, you see it. we know about that. but if you get hit by a dark lightning, you won't die, at least not immediately. it's a radiation strike. not a lightning or bolt strike. the main way to get hit by this is if you're flying through a thunderstorm. most airplanes, pilots fly around storms so there's no real risk but if your plane gets hit by one of those dark strikes, about one in thousands would be