VIDEO: Big Black Ring Spotted Over Britain [UPDATED]

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a portal? No, it’s the Goatse signal!

Waitaminnit! We have no clue.

Last Friday a black ring was spotted over Leamington Spa’s Bridge House Theater, lingering on the scene for about three minutes.¹

Check the footage for yourself.

Interesting to note back in July 2013, a black smoke ring was spotted over College Station, Texas after a transformer caught fire.²

Going further back, to 2003, there was yet another smoke ring spotted over San Antonio.³

Yolanda Young also saw the ring of smoke. She heard a crack of thunder, and saw the smoke from her office on the northeast side. I looked out and saw a black trail of smoke and above it was this complete black smoke ring, […] It was rising higher and getting stretched out. […] the National Weather Service says it is rare to capture this on camera.

Most experts believed this unidentified aerial phenomenon was the product of a lightning strike, finding vindication in 2006 when a woman in North Carolina photographed a similar ring in the wake of a lightning bolt.⁴

As an aside, it’s a shame Leamington Spa is more than 140 km/90 miles from Highgate, UK because there could be a connection between this smoke ring and the mystery booms plaguing the Haringey Council.⁵

UPDATE:

David Francis, from our Facebook page, shares this dramatic video of a smoke ring spotted in Chicago, back in 2012.

And from there, you can find tons of videos featuring similar phenomenon.

Looks like the grayface skeptics might be right this time, and our woo has gone up in smoke. We still want to hear from you on Facebook, at Twitter, or in the comments below!

MORE GREAT STORIES FROM WEEK IN WEIRD:

1. http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/local-news/did-you-see-the-mysterious-black-ring-in-the-sky-above-warwick-1-6000442 ↩

2. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Giant-smoke-ring-hovering-over-College-Station-4688817.php ↩

3. http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/article-lkj-16-07-03.htm ↩

4. http://www.wral.com/weather/blogpost/1102168/ ↩

5. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/more_mystery_explosions_in_highgate_baffle_experts_1_3537662 ↩