A Kansas biker witnessed a strange occurrence in the sky, leaving him in wonder and sparking internet discussions of UFOs. While enjoying a motorcycle ride, the resident spotted a black ring floating in the sky and filmed it on his phone.
As seen in the recording posted on X, a dark ring was indeed hanging in the sky, defying gravity. The startled man was heard saying, “Can somebody tell me what the h–ck is this?” He then clarified that the video was not edited and revealed his location.
The man was bewildered at the scene, saying, “I have never seen anything like that in my life.” He continued detailing his experience, “And it appears that little black stuff has fallen down the center of it. That is just weird.”
Moments later, the dark ring began to disappear, but a noticeable part remained at one edge, causing the biker to be more appalled. “Look at that, tell me that’s not freaking weird,” the man said in shock. More onlookers joined the biker to stare at the mysterious happening and try to decipher what it looked like. The biker said it looked “Like somebody blew a big old smoke ring.”
One woman could be heard saying it looked like a “congregation of birds.” The video went viral in no time, and several people theorized that it looked like an alien occurrence. “Bring out the UFOs already,” wrote one netizen.
A second person followed suit with the idea, writing, “Yeah, I’m beginning to think it’s a gigantic parasite too… who knows anymore? …. wild’n out !!!!”
Another netizen added to the alien conversation with a reference to a movie. “Remember the alien movie Arrival, where they used black smoke rings to communicate?”
This user poked fun at the occurrence with a reference to Blue Origin’s all-female crew trip in April. “It’s the rubber band that was used to propel Katy Perry into Space,” mocked the user.
While netizens brought up different theories about the mysterious phenomenon, meteorologists analyzed the video and gave a likely explanation. According to the experts, the rare smoke was likely caused by an explosion.
The analysis from the experts compared it to a “formation of a mushroom cloud, where rapidly rising air traps smoke in a ring-like formation because it’s moving faster than the surrounding air,” Fox Weather reports.
A similar phenomenon reportedly occurred in Seattle on March 29, with several residents reporting they saw an unidentified black ring in the sky. However, the National Weather Service revealed that it was unrelated to any weather phenomenon.
