Here's an example where discernment helps us not embarrass ourselves:
https://twitter.com/InvestigateEar1/status/1763596303840227381
Gotta agree, this video is pretty freaky on first view. What's really happening: Lightning storms mess with camera sensors big time. Those green beams? Just camera glitches when lightning's electromagnetic whack hits. The cheap Chinese CMOS sensors that's likely in these home security/Ring-style cameras get overloaded with the static electricity from the air in the thunderstorms and freak out. A lightning flash bombards the camera's sensor with a sudden surge of electromagnetic energy, causing it to misread the scene and create visual artifacts, which become especially pronounced when the lightning flashes. and spit out those green streaks instead of a clear shot. Nature's raw power just throwing tech a curveball.
But could it be this?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z
No. The NATURE article details a ground-breaking experiment where intense laser pulses created ionized air channels on a Swiss mountain, successfully guiding lightning over distances, hinting at futuristic lightning protection methods. So, while the article shows how we might one day direct lightning with science, the green beams in your image are just common camera quirks (again, CMOS sensors are pretty shit in terms of performance), not this high-tech weather wizardry.
For example, Sony is still rocking CMOS sensors, but they're not your garden-variety ones; they're back-illuminated and stacked, giving them an edge in hoovering up light and speed-processing the data. Their cameras are so good, so ground-breakingly good that the recent movie THE CREATORS was recently filmed with one. Six lbs! But it's important to note: cameras packing this technology aren't selling for the $145 USD or whatever that people picking up Ring cameras or other cheap security cam solutions.
Anyway. This is kinda why GAW is moderated as strictly as it is. The mod logs are public, you can see them in the sidebar. GAW doesn't get touched much, lately. We're just humming along. But, this post is hopefully a good explanation about how sometimes the mods do get involved in something.
Thanks, <3 frogs
What I was trying to explain is that this is not "groundbreaking tech," not even close to it. It is technology that has been around for 40+ years. Allegedly, the Soviet Union first developed the tech as part of their anti-ICBM program.
Now, regarding the anomaly that the camera picked up. I do not believe that what we are seeing is any kind of a visible [to the human eye] light beam. However, I would not be quick to rule out that the camera did pick up some kind of invisible ionizing beam, artificially created, and that the camera sensors simply applied a false (green light) coloring as a camera sensor error, to an actual, artificially created ionization beam.
Again, I am not saying that this is what we are seeing. But it is theoretically possible considering the fact that old technology exists that uses ionizing beams to manipulated lightning.
I am not a proponent for any of the various DEW attack hypotheses but, I will say that if this video is real, then I would find it quite concerning.
OK cool, that's very interesting. Thank you for doing your research, frog. Here, please see this comment for why the CMOS artifacts were green. It's related to how the CMOS interprets colour