Hello all, I'm new to this forum.
A while ago during a moderate nighttime storm on the East Coast, I could see what appeared to be long flashes of lightning passing far overhead. The bolts, which had a reddish color, moved in a manner reminiscent of the aurora, and seemed to take in the neighborhood of one second or more to extend across the sky from where they started. Long rolling thunder followed, beginning perhaps about a minute after the lightning. However, from what I've read, lightning bolts take only a small fraction of a second to travel from one point to another. Has anyone here observed anything similar?