Mysterious Black Circle Sighted in the Sky Over Leamington Spa.
Weather experts are baffled by the appearance of a black ring in the sky above Leamington Spa on Friday evening.
Schoolgirl Georgina Heap was playing tennis with her mother Jo Heap when she saw the mysterious black ring in the sky near Warwick Castle.
The ring remained in the sky for around three minutes before disappearing completely.
Miss Heap, who is studying for her GCSEs, described the circle as "the weirdest thing I have ever seen."
"I looked up at it and thought 'what the hell?', it was amazing," she said. "It was just floating there like a cloud and then it disappeared. It wasn't birds either. There were about ten of us who stopped what we were doing and watched."
The 16-year-old photographed the circle on her iPhone but so far, experts have been un able to offer explanation for the unusual sighting.
While the circle resembles a giant smoke ring, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue service said that there had been no reports of a fire in the locality at the time of the sighting.
The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related.
Nick Pope, an expert on UFOs and a previous government adviser on unexplained phenomena, said he believed the circle to be 'organic'.
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/mysterious-black-circle-sighted-sky-over-leamington-spa-235722421.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-black-circle-sighted-sky-over-leamington-spa-235722213.html#XJ5wx2C
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I does look like a smoke ring of some kind. How odd.
Hi Wartoad,
Yes rather unusual to say the least !
You were quick to post the image....can you tell me how you did it so fast.. :)
I was just trying to see if I could show it by inserting the URL of the image in the insert hyperlink option..without loading the image to PRCs site...but I could not get it to show .. :(
[url ] [ /url]
Smoke ring hoodlums practicing smoke rings for hits to their tweeter/facebooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_v5XFDZew
Quote from: astr0144 on April 15, 2014, 07:09:31 PM
Hi Wartoad,
Yes rather unusual to say the least !
You were quick to post the image....can you tell me how you did it so fast.. :)
I was just trying to see if I could show it by inserting the URL of the image in the insert hyperlink option..without loading the image to PRCs site...but I could not get it to show .. :(
[url ] [ /url]
Oh, I just clicked on your lower link to the picture and went to the big pic link and inserted it as an [img ] [ /img]
Thanks Gigas, I will check the video out !
Wartoad, do you mean without uploading anything to PRCs image host site...
like this....(Ive spaced the [img ] to show the HTML)
I just tried it and cannot get it to work ! :(
[img ] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/mysterious-black-circle-sighted-sky-over-leamington-spa-235722421.html [ /img]
I clicked on the picture to get to the photo spread, clicked on the pic to get the large version, then right clicked the pic to get properties of only the picture. You end up with this:
https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pzA4M.ZIprMOAlKjVfCxGw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD04MjU7cT03OTt3PTYzNA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_GB/News/ibtimes/black-circle-over-leamington-spa-20140415-010008-143.jpg
and insert into the img brackets.
(Edit - Words. Hard.)
That was quick to point out Gigas, had you just recently checked it out or seen that sometime previously...
seems you are probably correct... :P
Even the experts commenting on the article have not pointed that out...!
Thank you for explaining Wartoad !....I will try to note for next time..
cheers ..
Calling DEUEM !!!
Nick Pope, an expert on UFOs and a previous government adviser on unexplained phenomena, said he believed the circle to be 'organic'.
Thus demonstrating the sense in the old saying; "X is the unknown and a spurt comes too quickly"...
Of course, it's actually a rip in the space time contimuum, I seen one just like it before on the telly...
FB!
i've read about this before on stan gordons site http://www.stangordon.info/wp/
but couldn't find it
it was an electrical transformer that blew up
several links below but you will have to go to the links for the pics and the last has a good vid
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Giant-smoke-ring-hovering-over-College-Station-4688817.php
By Carol Christian | July 26, 2013 | Updated: July 26, 2013 11:33am
A blown transformer in College Station on Thursday caused a lingering smoke ring in the evening sky.
The transformer, housed in a substation in southern College Station, blew up at 8:20 p.m., causing about 3,000 customers in that city to lose power, said Carol Roach, spokeswoman for College Station Utilities.
The substation is shared with neighboring Bryan Texas Utilities, which owns the current transformer that failed, said that utility's spokesman, Paul Buckner.
"There's oil inside that transformer, and that's what caught on fire," Buckner said. "We are still investigating the cause."
None of Bryan Texas Utilities' customers lost power, he said.
When the transformer exploded, however, it triggered a protective feature in the College Station system that resulted in a power loss for the 3,000 affected customers, similar to the way a surge protector works in a home, Roach said.
College Station's power was restored at 9:12 p.m., she said.
"We had to make sure that everything was in the clear before we could restore the power," Roach said.
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Meet the Gandalf of volcanoes: Incredible moment Mount Etna puffs out perfectly formed 50-METRE smoke rings
By Simon Tomlinson
Published: 12:03 EST, 24 February 2014 | Updated: 14:06 EST, 24 February 2014
In the film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf famously watches Bilbo Baggins blow a smoke ring, before creating his own smoke galleon that sails through it.
And now, it seems the volcano Mount Etna is getting in on the act - after a smoke ring was caught on camera floating in the blue sky off the east coast of Sicily, Italy.
The stunning pictures of the perfectly circular smoke ring puffed out by the giant volcano were taken by volcanologist Chris Weber, 45, from Stuttgart in Germany.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566812/Incredible-moment-Mount-Etna-puffs-perfectly-formed-50-METRE-smoke-rings-blue-sky-coast-Sicily.html
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http://www.wtsp.com/video/2751636008001/1/Strange-smoke-ring-spotted-in-Pinellas-sky
Strange smoke ring spotted in Pinellas sky
WTSP 10 News received multiple reports and images of a strange smoke ring hovering in the sky in northern Pinellas County Thursday night.
Even dolphins want in on the act.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks3aQhEohTE
The nazis used this technique with their sound gun creating a torroid vortice of sound.
If you want a black smoke ring burn oil or perhaps kerosene.
If you have an old base drum with a hole in the front and the kicker on the back, fill the drum with smoke and stomp the kicker pedal to get a ring.
I think the rest of that story with experts and Nick Pope saying anything is to make the story have effect. Nick Pope would be much smarter than waste his time on an opinion of a smoke ring.
here's what the bbc says it was if you don't want to read the whole thing
The eventual answer came in the middle of Tuesday afternoon when a statement from Warwick Castle confirmed that they had been testing fireworks.
A Warwick Castle spokesman said they had been testing "fire effects" to go with the daily firing of the Trebuchet Fireball - a giant catapult.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27037579
15 April 2014 Last updated at 10:24 ET
What was the mysterious black ring in Leamington Spa?
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A video of a mysterious black ring in the sky over Leamington Spa left people scratching their heads, and prompted a wave of speculation, writes Tom de Castella.
The ring was reportedly captured by a 16-year-old schoolgirl with her smartphone after she played tennis with her mother. The ring - which appeared to be close to Warwick Castle - remained in the sky for around three minutes before vanishing, it has been reported.
Several different theories were put forward as to what the ring could be. Some people speculated whether it would be possible to fake the video. In theory you can fake most things, says Iain McArthur, an expert at Audio Video Forensics. For instance, the footage wobbles. You can fake this handheld look. But other elements seem to ring true, he says. There's a "blob" on the top right and top left of the ring, suggesting movement - "something organic", he says. It's not clear how far away the ring is from the smartphone. The video footage is blurred at the sides. But he doesn't think it is suspicious. "Initially it doesn't look like it's faked." It's not like other video of unexplained sightings - in particular the hazy edges to the black circle. "The blurring element is different from any UFO footage I've seen," McArthur says.
Other people thought it might have been a strange weather phenomenon. But that's not so, according to the Met Office. "There's no meteorological reason why it's happened. And there was nothing unusual happening in Leamington Spa that day, we've checked," a Met Office spokeswoman says. The shape is said to have remained in the sky for three minutes. And it's very rare that a cloud circle "that perfect" would remain without being blown away at that height.
So could it have been a swarm of insects? Some insects do gather in groups like this at certain times of year, says Frederic Tripet, an entomologist at Keele University. The fuzziness of the black outline almost looks like insects leaving and joining the circle. One of the images has a very faint line curving up from below which might be seen as insects arriving and departing, he believes. Another has what looks like a fly in the foreground, he says. "When the winter is mild you can expect population explosions of some insects. They may be mating in that aggregation. Usually mating is not done as high [or] in ring formation."
If not insects, then could it have been birds? A strange black cloud was captured over Leamington last year. It was a flock of starlings. Birds are known to fly in tight formations, such as a V-shape. Could this ring also have been starlings? The answer is no, says Richard James, wildlife adviser at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. "Starlings and waders can form fluid shapes. But they won't form a shape like this." You sometimes get a small number of buzzards circling around a thermal but it wouldn't resemble the Leamington ring. They would not be as close together. They're likely to be individually visible rather than an amorphous black mass, he says. "It's certainly not birds," he concludes.
The eventual answer came in the middle of Tuesday afternoon when a statement from Warwick Castle confirmed that they had been testing fireworks.
A Warwick Castle spokesman said they had been testing "fire effects" to go with the daily firing of the Trebuchet Fireball - a giant catapult.
"We've seen a number of different effects, including the vortex images that have been reported," the spokesman said. "As yet we don't know what causes the phenomenon but it's certainly a spooky spectacle."
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There is also a thin film of vapor in the center, It looks to be moving left to right an decending a bit. It is not a UFO, insects nor birds. If this is a fireworks display, it is pretty cool.
The pixel counts put it up in the sky and not close to the camera so it must have been rather large. It processed like a big black flat soap bubble with a constant membrane center that is difficult to see. The center blocked the view of clean sky line patterns.
I wonder if they can do other colors. oh, it is dripping upside down witch shows to me that is might be falling. All around the upper edge are small drips.
Hi Deuem,
Would you think it is a smoke ring that Gigas posted in his video ?
Quote from: Gigas on April 15, 2014, 07:10:29 PM
Smoke ring hoodlums practicing smoke rings for hits to their tweeter/facebooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_v5XFDZew
No idea Astro, I can't see any videos from here.
Hi Deuem,
Sorry I have not kept up on many thead's lately so I have lost track on where you are or what may have been happening.,
is that to say you cannot see the video on PRC or that you are in a location that some how stops you seeing the video or in a country that bans youtube videos or you don't have relevant software on the computer or what ever device to play it..
I am not sure if you are in the USA or Far East....if Far East that may explain it !
Quote from: Fruitbat on April 15, 2014, 07:53:21 PM
Nick Pope, an expert on UFOs and a previous government adviser on unexplained phenomena, said he believed the circle to be 'organic'.
Nick Pope is a disinfo agent :P
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Burning Man event Nevada
Smoke rings stay up for a long time and can drift far away
(http://mayhem-chaos.net/photoblog/images/smoke_rings.jpg)
This one created by a blast...
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Pinellas Co. 7:43 AM, Oct 18, 2013
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A strange ring of smoke floated above College Station for a half hour on Thursday. Breanne Muldrow/Twitter
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You can see the source below...
Smoke ring produced by a controlled explosion on the ground as part of an airshow.
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Volcanic Smoke Rings
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(http://lazerhorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Volcanic-Smoke-Rings-Stromboli%E2%80%99-s-volcano-2.jpg)
Coming Soon! Laser glowing smoke rings!
Wait til the UFO Nuts see THESE :D
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Dang, Z, and I had the thought that one of your space plasma critters let one rip...
ROTFLMAO...
seeker
Well I think Gigas's video and "Zs" photos certain confirms what it was !
If its something else...id be surprised...
If Nick Pope worked for me on the "X" files MOD he would be sacked ! :)