Brilliant, forked lightning cuts its own tortuous “path of least resistance” at speeds greater than the eye can resolve, surely roasting several square inches of ground amongst the dissected grasslands that carpet the Colorado-Nebraska state line. The illusion of the upper part of the bolt’s looping on itself is caused simply by our viewing it in two dimensions; one segment actually crossed in front of the other.
15 SSW Kimball NE (13 Jun 11) looking WNW
41.0168, -103.6879