It wouldn't be as targetted as a missile strike but you could easily say "it wasn't me!"...
There are some crazy stories related to the HAARP program including opening holes in the ozone layer which caused instaneous skin burning to anyone caught under the hole. Even back in the early days of the internet, it was obvious how the conspiracy circles were going to flourish and push the drek to world. I had never heard of presscore.ca, but based on this article alone, I now know to hopefully never see it again except for examples like in this case.
"A lightning rocket is a rocket that unravels a conductor, such as a fine copper wire, as it ascends, to conduct lightning charges to the ground. Lightning strikes derived from this process are called "triggered lightning."[1][2][3]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rocket
Of course, you can just drop some HE instead. Not sure how much damage lightning actually does.