Another one for our weird and unusual file as reports of a "spooky" mysterious black ring appeared over a village in northern Kazakhstan, hovering for 15 minutes before dissapating. As the RT report on this mysterious event points out, this is not the first such event as it has occurred multiple times across the world.
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Villagers living in Shortandy, some 70 kilometers north of the Kazakh capital Astana, witnessed the spooky event on Friday afternoon.
“It was like a black cloud. We saw it at around 4 pm on April 3. It dissipated like smoke, but it was completely odorless,” Oleg Menshikov, a village resident, told Today.kz.
Andrey Solodovnik, associate physics professor at the Northern Kazakhstan State University estimates the ring was about 100 meters in diameter and floated at an altitude of between 200 meters to a kilometer.
RT highlights another such event from April 2014, shown in the video below, stating "Last April, a video of one such event recorded in Leamington Spa, England, left internet users puzzled after making the rounds on social media. Dozens of other videos featuring rings nearly identical to the one seen in Kazakhstan can be found on YouTube."