Is the Rare Lightning Ball Real?
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- The user who shared the video said that he edited the images with Adobe After Effects and that the video was a computer effect.
Recently, internet users have been making strange posts on Twitter. Today, one of them caught our attention and managed to enter our radar.
In the video in the posts, we see a bright blue energy sphere moving above the train tracks in Russia. The owner of the post stated that this rare event was a ball of lightning.
Does the Video See a Rare Lightning Ball?
Allegedly, this phenomenon, which we have not yet been able to define, is a ‘lightning ball’ that takes place in Russia and is rarely experienced. But does this claim really reflect the truth? To examine this, we first take a screenshot from the video and scan it from Google by reverse image search. As a result, with a little effort, we reach the real source of the video with a smile. It would be a lie to say that we reacted with surprise to the reality that I encountered.
This video, shared by YouTube user Andrei Trukhonovets on May 27, 2019, received approximately 7.5 million views. Trukhonovets added the phrase “Lightning flash near railway tracks [CGI]” to this video he shared. CGI means “Computer-based image”. So today, we come across the use of CGI in many movies, from Marvel movies to James Cameron’s Avatar. However, although Trukhonovets states that he edited this video with computer effects, we see that it is in the wrong spread.
AFP also wrote a review on this subject, just like us. Trukhonovets stated that he is a 3D artist and that he prepared this video using After Effects, a production software.
Trukhonovets realized that her work was shared with false information and entered the following comment under the video:
I’m surprised so many people believe in miracles. It’s time for Morgan Freeman to come out of the dark and make things right.
He answered the question in a humorous way. We don’t know if this video will go viral with this explanation again. But one thing we do know is that people fall prey to such visual traps.
