An Oak Park, IL, witness shooting video of a storm cloud caught something else on camera he could not identify, according to testimony in Case 68838 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The object first enters the frame from the upper left and moves down and to the right. This is a still frame that shows the object as blurry. The running video depicts the object as a bright orb. (Credit: MUFON)
“I was shooting video of a storm cloud emitting heat lightning from our back porch,” the witness stated. “When I viewed the video I saw a streak of light that I cannot explain or rationalize.”

Still frame from witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness slowed the video speed down and shoed it to friends – who could not identify what the light was. Someone recommended the witness pass the video along to MUFON.
“The orb appears 11 seconds in.”

Still frame from witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The object looks like a bright orb and is moving in a downward motion as though it’s moving toward the ground level.
Illinois MUFON State Director Sam Maranto and Assistant State Director Roger Laurella are investigating. The witness report was filed on July 31, 2015.
You can hear something that sounds like an electrical arc, before the object comes into view.
Then you see this object, which to me looks very much like molten metal, from a high tension line spark.