article_snippet.sent: A bolt of lightning has been spotted soaring from the top of the cloud before looping back on itself and striking the ground in Australia.
article_snippet.sent: The image was captured over Jaibru in Australia by an off-duty emergency services officer who dubbed the phenomenon 'looping lightning'.
article_snippet.sent: And storm chaser Dan Robinson believes 'looped lightning' is simply a trick of perspective, based on where the viewer is stood, meaning the viewer appears to rise and loop even though the viewer is not.
article_snippet.sent: The image was captured over Jaibru in Australia by emergency services officer Scott Murray, who dubbed the phenomenon looping lightning'.
article_snippet.sent: But storm chaser Dan Robinson Dan Robinson said 'looped' lighting may instead be a trick of perspective, based on where a viewer is stood, meaning a viewer appears to loop when it's not .
article_snippet.sent: The 'looping lightning' image was taken by  
article_snippet.sent: There have been examples of lightning appearing to make complete circular loops, but this is also a trick of the eye.
article_snippet.sent: storm chaser Dan Robinson explained: 'Sometimes a lightning channel will have the illusion of 'looping back' on a lightning channel or having bright knots in a lightning channel.
article_snippet.sent: Lightning is three-dimensional - it 'zigs' and 'zags' in all directions.
article_snippet.sent: The bright knots in a lightning channel you sometimes see in lightning photographs are the result of the same phenomenon - The bright knots in a lightning channel you sometimes see in lightning photographs are just smaller, tighter 'loops'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Image was taken by emergency services officer Scott Murray who dubbed the phenomenon 'looping lightning'
  A bolt of lightning is shown leaving the top of the cloud before looping back towards the Earth .
  