I remember an incident that took place in my house which I grew up in,
when I was 7 or 8. I was standing in my sister's bedroom, watching a rather
nasty thunderstorm that was going on outside. The bedroom was actualy the
end of the hallway converted into a room, and it had several windows that
were next to eachother, giving a nice panaromic view of the outside (which
was partialy obstructed by trees. There was a closeby lightning strike,
and right before the thunder, I saw a horozontal "static bar" right infront
of my eyes, which looked just like a bar of static you would see on a
television screen when an appliance is first turned on. I don't think
it was an optical illusion, or a small bolt of lightning, because the "bar"
was "superimposed" over everything in my FOV, including the window frames.

Could this have been the RF from the lightning strike setting off some of
my eye's visual receptors, creating the "bar" I saw?