Yeah, the blaze-white zone is easy to make sense of if you understand the rolling-scan behavior of CMOS sensors and how it affects the capture of highly transient events. It’s the same reason airplane propellers get rendered as visions of Lovecraftian horror:
See also “jello distortion” to understand the world-wobbling effect observed when the camera is shaken.
I was mostly curious to understand those stripey artifacts in the sky - in particular, why two cameras that almost certainly come from two different manufacturers would show such similar behavior from a nearby lightning strike.