A giant spinning disk of ice appeared on the river in Maine (photo, video)

Residents of the city of Westbrook in Maine yesterday, January 15, was lucky to witness an amazing natural phenomena, which they are unlikely to forget.

In the middle of the Presumpscot river flowing through the city, formed a huge (about 100 yards or 91 meters in diameter) ice disk ideal form, which is slowly rotating counterclockwise.

This enormous rotating ice disk formed in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine yesterday! pic.twitter.com/6zaneBQv4h

— AccuWeather (@accuweather) January 16, 2019

The townspeople shared photos and videos in social networks, discussing this wonder of nature.

«It’s like the crop circles. Something alien. Not every day you see this,» says Doug Bertlesman, a web developer in the company Ethos Marketing. Office just facing the river, where he formed an ice disk.

Rob Mitchell, one of the first to notice an unusual phenomenon, says that the disk were sitting ducks: «the Ducks sat and rotated on it like a huge merry-go-round».

Some witnesses said that the drive was remarkably similar to the moon, and the sight was unbelievable. Someone jokes that it is a place of a landing of aliens.

Really weird, 300-foot wide spinning disk of ice has appeared on Maine»s Presumpscot river https://t.co/20e0OwH7aU pic.twitter.com/I8E3NnSNHM

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 16, 2019

According to Mark Buttle, Professor of physics at Bowdoin College, ice formation formed in that part of the river where there is a circular flow, creating a whirlpool effect. Simultaneously there should be some temperature conditions, to get such a disk.

According to locals, earlier on the river, they saw small circles of ice, but there is a huge never.

But in April last year in the same man, in the County of Aroostook, residents of one village do make such a disk. About 100 volunteers cut a circle in the ice with a diameter of over 400 feet and used four outboard motor for rotation. We got a huge ice carousel!

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