Video: UFO Sighting, UFO getting struck by lightning in Austria

Date of Sighting: 1st January 2016 – Midnight
Place of Sighting: Mostviertel region, Austria

An Austrian student’s video of a UFO-like object captured while lighting New Year’s fireworks has gone viral after it was posted online.

Marie Mela from Vienna was enjoying the New Year with friends in the Mostviertel region of Lower Austria, famous for the large number of pear orchards from where schnapps and cider are made.

But she insists that the video on her Facebook post is genuine, and has appealed in her message for anybody else who saw the phenomena to get in touch.

The video shows a group of young people outside with the clinking of champagne glasses, and the sound of the Danube waltz traditionally clearly heard playing as it is a New Year tradition in Austria as people wish each other all the best for 2016.

News States:

A video that apparently shows a UFO getting struck by lightning during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Austria has gone viral online.

The video, apparently filmed by student Marie Mela in the Mostviertel area of Lower Austria, has been spread far and wide across the internet since it was posted on 1 January, and has cropped up on YouTube and a number of UFO-related pages since.

It starts fairly innocently, showing a group of young people ringing in the New Year with dancing, drinks and fireworks.
As the camera pans up to follow one rocket, we see a strange, brightly glowing orb in the sky, which appears to get struck by lightning. The camera pans down again, and we get a glimpse of the shocked faces of the crowd, who are questioning what they have just seen.