Massive 10ft Spinning Ice Circle Discovered in the UK
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It’s no secret that people in the UK are forever complaining about the weather, but it seems this week they were well within their rights. For the first time ever a rare phenomenon usually only seen in extremely cold countries was spotted on the River Otten in Devon.
A massive spinning ice circle caught the attention of Roy Jefferies as he was walking his dog by the river last Wednesday morning. Measuring a whopping 10 ft in diameter, the rotating disc sat stationary in the river where two currents merge.
Mr Jefferies called a friend, Mr Blisset, who lived nearby, and just happens to have an interest in the strange and bizarre. He identified the ice disc as a true rare specimen.
In an interview with the local paper, Mr Blisset said he grabbed his camera and ran straight to the river to see the icy disc for himself.
“I couldn’t believe it when he told me,” Mr Blissett said.
“I saw the most perfect circle of ice about two metres from the edge of the bank,” said Mr Blissett.
“It was about three metres in diameter and, on timing it, we discovered it was completing a revolution in four minutes and ten seconds.
“The air temperature at the time was sub-zero and the weather had been bitterly cold for the past week.”
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It is thought that ice circles are formed when surface ice gathers in the center of a body of water rather than the edges. A slow moving river current can create a slow turning eddy, which rotates, forming an ice disc. Very slowly the edges are ground down until a gap is formed between the eddy and the surrounding ice.
Image via National Post
This six-foot-wide circle was spotted by Mississauga man, Brook Tyler last December near Sheridan Creek in Rattray Marsh Conservation area. Mr Tyler was pretty sure the circle wasn’t man-made, as some people at the time thought, because the ice on the creek was much too thin to walk on.
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January 15th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Perhaps 10 feet in diameter? 10 feet in circumference is selling it a bit short, giving a circle only ~3 feet across
January 15th, 2009 at 8:26 am
You mistakenly said “circumference” when you meant to use “diameter”. Cool photos.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
guys you are so right - maths never was my strong point!
January 15th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
This is really interesting and the video is beautiful.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Perhaps they went on the ice, sawed a ~10ft icecircle and left. Then the moving water will keep the circle moving around. :)
January 15th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
That looks very cool. The cirkels are perfectly round. :)
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January 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Well, This is something conpletelyt different than crop circles. I wonder how these new circles are made. Sceptics, eat your heart out!
January 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
The undercurrent in the river causes this fenomena.
January 15th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Everybody shoold wear aluminium hats!
It must be an alien attack.
Let’s ask Vlunk what it is.
January 15th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
nice work of art
January 15th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
This looks like a HOAX.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Nope, it wasn’t me this time.
But as far as the alien attack concerns, you’re right. The alien attack is coming. We’ve had a bit of a setback recently when the bank we had trusted with the financial funds for our campaign, went bankrupt.But we now have a government loan and we’re back on track.
It only means that the original date in 2012 isn’t feasible anymore. But don’t worry, we’re still working on it and all your bases are and will belong to us. It’ll just be a tad later.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Great, i want one!
January 15th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Sasha, read the article: they’re caused by currents that rotate the ice and grind off the edges. I’m sure you’ve seen leaves or other floating things moving in slow circles in a stream where they’re caught in an eddy. This is just the same thing, only with ice. The explanation not only isn’t miraculous, but it’s obvious at first glance.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I’ve seen this phenomenon in the mountains of western North Carolina a few years back. I was camping out over Christmas and it was so cold we couldn’t get wood to burn using our cookstove! The river had a few of these, it was a beautiful sight.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Quickly, someone tell Al Gore about this.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:41 am
No Shit!!!!
January 19th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I blame global warming.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I bet someone just farted on the ice, melted it, and then the Worfenberg Phenomenon kicked in, where highly compressed natural gas plummets to subzero temperatures as it rotates in a circle thereby causing your ‘ice circle’. They should rename the ice circles to a more appropriate name…..fart circles.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Sonntag: (Sunday): Sprechen sie English, bitte.
Anyway, Yes, it is assumed that an alien race with the capability to travel interstellar distances is going to communicate with us by stomping down our wheat fields and making pretty little ice circles. Or by kidnapping hicks and playing with their buttts-(mispelling intentional). That’s believable.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:02 am
I wonder if the ice moves with the river or stays in one places while it turns its circles>? Now that is a trick for a master majician to try to copy. Someone or something in this universe is responsible for it, so more power to them. Great photos.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:19 am
I don’t know how it was formed,but it is spinning counter-clockwise.Is it the old water down the drain rule? Free floating objects rotate this direction in the northern hemisphere from the natural rotation of the earth. Given a known rate of rotation and position relitive to the north pole,it could give someone somthing to figure out,(not me). Do the math! Bruce.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Aliens have shown themselves in southern states also! lots of beleivers in florida who have witnessed it first hand. It is a strange green light that usually plants itself under a dock or next to a seawall. At every site there will be HUNDREDS of fish just hanging out under this strange but very beutiful light. Wath the action at superfishlight.com AMAZING!
January 20th, 2009 at 3:11 am
I bet George Bush did it !!!