Weird black ring spotted over Kazakhstan
Digital Reporter
Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 9:26 AM - A weird black smoke ring caught on camera in Kazakhstan is so far unexplained.
It persisted for several minutes in the skies above the village of Shortandy, around 70 km north of the Kazakh capital Astana.
"It dissipated like smoke, but it was completely odorless," Oleg Menshikov, a resident of Shortandy, told Today.kz.
There's already plenty of the usual theories on what it was: UFOs of some description, a "thermal microburst," insects behaving oddly, and a variety of not so serious explanations (no one seems to have suggested man-made space rockets, which is odd, given Kazakhstan is the site of the Russian space agency's launching platform, servicing the International Space Station).
This is actually not the first time something like this has been spotted in the skies, and although no one is sure how it got there, the most plausible explanation seems to be some kind of combustive effect.
In 2014, for example, a schoolgirl snapped photo of one in the UK, which lasted for three minutes:
After a baffling few days, the benign culprits came clean: It was a side effect of a fireworks test at nearby Warwick Castle, involving a giant catapult.
Have a look at how the one in the video below, from 2008, was created during Burning Man in Nevada:
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