Not sure what this is...but it's cool!

[COSMO]

I've never seen anything like this...

[youtube]d0AgPSoZHyM[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=79&v=d0AgPSoZHyM

Plasma tube? 

Cosmo

[space otter]

well I didn't see a Cloaked or uncloaked  UFO..but I think we have talked about this tpe of lighting before

yep..pretty cool






http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/types/
Cloud flashes sometimes have visible channels that extend out into the air around the storm (cloud-to-air or CA), but do not strike the ground. The terms sheet lightning or intra-cloud lightning (IC) refers to lightning embedded within a cloud that lights up as a sheet of luminosity during the flash. A related term, heat lightning, is lightning or lightning-induced illumination that is too far away for thunder to be heard. Lightning can also travel from cloud-to-cloud (CC). Spider lightning refers to long, horizontally traveling flashes often seen on the underside of stratiform clouds.







Lightning constantly striking inside a big cumulus cumulonimbus cloud.







Silent Lightning - Amazing Lightning In Clouds








Cumulonimbus Lightning Cloud - Lewisville, TX March 27, 2014







The Throckmorton Texas lightning storm of April 1st, 2014. This isolated supercell storm was highly electric however most of the lightning was intracloud lightning. Very few cloud to ground strikes occurred relative to the frequency of flashes. The cell went tornado warned just before sundown and produced a brief funnel cloud. The interesting thing about is the vivid spinning cumulus vortices inside the updraft.

[Pimander]

If it is linked to lightening then plasma will definitely be involved.  I always keep an eye on storm related phenomena as I'm interested in plasma anomalies.  I'd love to see one of those.

[space otter]

ah crap  I forgot this one and too late to modify

weird..especially considering where it's at...