Watch video of object, which comes after researchers get radio signals from space.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Footage of a bizarre black ring floating above Kazakhstan has sparked a worldwide deluge of UFO rumors after picking up thousands of views on Youtube since the weekend.
The eerie shape stunned locals as it hovered above the village of Shorthandy, near Astana in Kazakhstan, before circling the sky for several minutes and then seeming to disappear into thin air.
Not everyone is jumping on the extraterrestrial bandwagon. As one commenter on the YouTube video noted according to the U.K.’s Daily Record, “A vortex ring or smoke ring can be formed in the atmosphere by a rising (falling) mass of warm [cold] air, which is also called a thermal [microburst].â€
The unidentified flying object in Kazakhstan appeared just days after researchers determined a series of radio signals emanating from space — that have incidentally been vexing scientists for years — all follow a distinct, mathematical pattern.
“There is something really interesting we need to understand,†study co-author Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, told New Scientist. “This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an E.T.â€
National Geographic proposed the radio bursts could have originated from evaporating primordial black holes, neutron stars, or even an unmapped spy satellite with signals that resemble deep space emissions.
Aside from the black ring flying around and then dissipating, reports on the anomaly mention neither extraordinary radio activity nor any subsequent maneuvers from the so-called UFO.