interesting. Ive never had that happen while videoing lightning storms. But I didn’t use landscape mode and I think 35mm is way more fun.
Turkey’s Roketsan unveils directed-energy weapon Alka against drones
"Turkish defense contractor Roketsan has unveiled its first locally-developed directed-energy weapon (DEW) Alka that can destroy or disable hostile drones."
"Introducing Alka at the International Defense Industry Fair 2019 (IDEF '19), Roketsan said the weapon system was developed in response to recent surge in drone attacks targeting Turkish armed forces."
Yes, those are Digital Camera lightning effects.
(Not evidence of Directed Energy Weapons.)
You will get entirely different effects using a shutter based 35MM film camera.
In digital cameras, sensor sensitivity, size, settings and speed will also vary the results.