LaBelle [1987> proposed that Fast Atmospheric Light Pulsations (FAPs), which have been observed at L=1.5--2.2 in the northern hemisphere, are optical signatures of ≥2 MeV electrons associated with Lightning-induced Electron Precipitation events produced by strokes in the southern hemisphere. FAPs cannot be produced by ≥2 MeV electrons in the inner radiation belt because the upper limit for fluxes of such particles is only about 0.2% of the value that was used in the analysis and the correct value results in an unrealistically short electron lifetime prediction. The discrepancy comes from using an electron model, AE-2, which included the Starfish fission electrons. Additionally, the use of a model in which southern hemisphere lighting strokes result in northern hemisphere FAPs via a cyclotron mode interaction between magnetospheric electrons and lightning-generated waves is also untenable because it would result in FAP intensities two orders of magnitude greater in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere, leading to a further two orders of magnitude reduction in estimated inner zone electron lifetimes. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988