Witness: “On June 12, I was out riding my bicycle and a storm was approaching, then this strange light caught my eye so I pulled out my phone and shot this video.”
“I had no idea what it was until I did some research when I got home and found out that it's called Haarp, a government research program. Take a closer look at the beginning of the video right when the beam disappears for a second it moves part of the cloud upwards then comes back.”
Although it is a rare and spectacular phenomenon, it has nothing to do with Haarp.
According to discovermagazine, it is a cumulonimbus cloud and its outer surface of ice crystals can hold a static electric charge.
When placed in an electric field, the charges feel a force on them, and align themselves along the field.
Some of the ice crystals are bending light toward the camera, and when the field snaps they rearrange themselves.
“I had no idea what it was until I did some research when I got home and found out that it's called Haarp, a government research program. Take a closer look at the beginning of the video right when the beam disappears for a second it moves part of the cloud upwards then comes back.”
Although it is a rare and spectacular phenomenon, it has nothing to do with Haarp.
According to discovermagazine, it is a cumulonimbus cloud and its outer surface of ice crystals can hold a static electric charge.
When placed in an electric field, the charges feel a force on them, and align themselves along the field.
Some of the ice crystals are bending light toward the camera, and when the field snaps they rearrange themselves.
Below a video of this phenomenon captured in 2011.