On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I'm not sure what's supposed to be interesting about that video.
> Somebody shot it from inside a car with the window rolled up, and
> then zoomed in on a ring-shaped mark on the car's window.
> 
> Seems pretty mundane to me.

Actually it was shot from a spot standing in the middle of an
amusement park, over which it appeared.  You can see one of the
attractions in the video.  It clearly is not a mark on a surface in
front of the camera, as the smoke from another attraction in the
background obscures parts of the ring as the video goes on.  It is
definitely some sort of object in the sky.  Whether or not it is
extraterrestrial is another matter...

Another thing that makes it interesting is that it has garnered
substantial news media attention (e.g. from CNN).  There are also
reports of extremely similar events occuring in the 1950's.

Digging into this some more, it seems that park officials said it is a
smoke ring produced by the park's volcano attraction.  This seems very
likely, although it's a bit odd... if you watch the trees in the
video, and the white smoke closer to the camera,  there are some
indications that the weather is at least a bit breezy.  However the
black ring shows no signs of dissipating smoke, even after more than a
minute of video, plus whatever amount of time it took the witness to
get her camera ready and start shooting.

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