Maybe 10 or so years ago I was smoking a cigarette in the entryway to the apartment building I lived in when a thunderstorm rolled thru. No big deal.
Except this time a few feet away from me i see this blue thing starting to rise up from the ground. Looked almost like a plant or tree sprouting up in slow motion. Then the loudest thunderclap I have ever heard, the earth felt like it shook, the air around me was full of static, and that blue thing shot straight up into the sky