Whats that weird gray thing, or the lightning bolt?
I really don’t know. I think they’re just little background effects or something. The lightning bolt bounces off of planets, and eventually disappears. The gray UFO just hovers around for a bit, and then disappears when it goes off screen, it seems. I’ve run into it, and nothing happens, you go right through it. So as far as I can tell, they don’t do anything.