As lightning does.It's really too bright to be just heat lightning. This thing lit up the whole sky!
As lightning does.It's really too bright to be just heat lightning. This thing lit up the whole sky!
It's heat lightning. A well known phenomenon.
Heat Lightning can be quite bright.
It depends on the brightness of the original lightning.
(obviously!)
You're the man, Captain, but I think you're dead wrong on this one. While heat lightning is rather dim, it can light up the night. 'Lightning' lightning can be brighter than daylight however briefly. This is Cleveland, OH, we're talking about, the industrial heartland of America. There is no 'over the horizon'. 'Over Cleveland's horizon is Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Indianapolis, and hundreds of good sized town in the most densely populated part of the States. If a meteor fell, people would know about it. Your 'over the horizon' suggests to me some vast unpeopled wilderness. Even Lake Erie on Cleveland's northern outskirt isn't that vast.From what I've heard, I'm tending more toward the meteorite explanation,
and growing doubtful regarding heat lightning.
"Bright as day" is not, I think, heat lightning.
If a meteorite exploded over the horizon, it might have an effect like heat lightning,
silent and illuminating.
Its brightness would depend on the size of the explosion.
Oh, okay, but I was referring to fogpipe who lives in Cleveland and says he has seen such things.The video in the OP was from Russia, not Ohio.