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The bizarre “ring UFO” that people have been seeing since 1957

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Are they errant smoke rings or alien-controlled ships from Circleworld? Watch these videos of the “ring UFO” phenomenon and judge for yourself.

Photograph by Paul Sonne.

Here’s a 2008 ring sighting in the Rocky Mountains, right in the middle of the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLxB2iYK-I

And another day sighting in Arizona, from an airplane window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0YwW9togk

Here’s a California sighting from earlier this year, complete with stoner voiceover:

Apparently the first ring was sighted in 1957, and reported in a few papers as a bizarre phenomenon that started as a gleaming ring and slowly faded into a cloud formation. Many people believe that these ring sightings are, in fact, smoke rings that form naturally (like the one at the top of this post) and from a distance appear to be ships.

You can learn more about ring UFOs over at the UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock blog.

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