Could something from space have wiped out the herd of Reindeer in Norway?

A herd of reindeer was struck by lightning in Norway, killing at least 323 of the animals. Reindeers are known to huddle together during storms.

According to the New York Times, officials surmised that an extremely high discharge of electricity from the storm on Friday afternoon - and the interaction of the lightning with the earth and water - had electrocuted the animals.
Norwegian officials say they've never seen anything of this scale.

On the same day, two of NASA's space weather monitoring spacecraft were picking up something unusual.


Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/europe/hardangervidda-norway-lightning-reindeer.html?_r=0