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Seen over Disneyland before firework show, appeared small and then grew into a larger ring. Looks darker than the sky, almost like black smoke, but it's a very distinct shape.
Now there's two of them
This is getting out of hand.
We should not have made this bargain…
Don’t DONT bother Luke, got it
Well, d'oh... it's so obvious... I am ashamed I did not see it before.
Hahaha thanks!
Sorry not clear enough
I thought it was a rubber band on a marble floor 😂
....
Oh
You’re not alone, my friend 😑
Sigh… same.
😂😂
Same
This comes from the fire that flashes during World of Color at California Adventure. So not from fireworks necessarily but giant quick flames that shoot out and then are cut off leaving this smoke pattern. It happens every show, especially when it’s not super windy.
These can also happen when electrical transformers explode so if you hear bang and see one floating up from a weird glowing green and blue light it’s probably not aliens. (I work in the electrical field)
This is the answer if you happen to see this at any place other than an amusement park in California, I guess. I’ve seen one in CO.
"Probably" lol
Um do you have a good video example of this? I want to search it but I don't know what keywords to use
I just searched for “transformer explosion smoke ring” and there are a couple other ones.
How big is this smoke ring device?
Not very big. It's the same idea as doing smoke rings with a cigarette or whatever. The ring starts small and grows larger and larger the further away it gets/
And this smoke is very dense so it survives its shape a lot longer.
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it's more to do with the physics involved in forming the ring (which is known, I think, as a toroidal ring.
If you've ever seen the videos of the beluga whales blowing rings underwater, it's the same principle – a circle of rapidly spinning air which holds its shape because of the rate of spin.
(not spinning like a hula hoop - the other kind of spinning. Poroidal spinning. inside out spinning. I'm not describing this very well. but then again, I am on competing medications at the moment and no one is quite sure who's winning. But it's definitely not me. I am definitely not winning. I feel weird. toroidal is a weird word to remember. But I remember it. Because of the whales. ring whales. huge white ring whales doing toroidal. wing whales. so very, very smooth.)
I thought it would be nice to close your first parenthesis to avoid cosmic disruption. Here you go.. )
I love whales.
Reddit always knows…
No wonder ChatGPT gonna start drinking from here...
ChatGPT is going to start telling me about his dad beating him with jumper cables.
Don't let ChatGPT distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
The way I just cackled. I've been on Reddit too long.
Telling us hardship tales from when he was just a little ASIC emulation board... 😂😂😂
Hey chatGP, my arms are broken and I need some advice
Chat GPT: He never actually said his arms were broken.
Good old /u/rogersimon10
Inactive for 8 years, RIP
I miss coming across that account. He, like u/shittymorph, got me every time.
We’d get this at BurningMan pretty frequently as well. Big FOOM, then smoke ring.
I've seen the same thing happen from a transformer blowing up.
If I had a Time Machine I would go back in time and make people think god is angry at them.
You can get a very similar smoke ring pattern from big electrical transformers shorting out and blowing up. It's the same principle - A very hot flash fire burning dirty, leaving a sooty cloud that is turned into a ring.
Sorry that was me. I accidentally left my hair tie up there.
How dare you! My cat could have easily swallowed that!
Happy cake day mate
Don't worry, They've got lots of hair ties
There's some kind of dimensional pocket under the sofa. The source of all unwanted hair bands and bread ties that dear lord I could have sworn I got away from them.
First glance without reading the title, I absolutely thought I was looking at the elusive hair tie on a bathroom counter. 💀
Are you god’s girlfriend?
Side piece
😂
Lol if u look directly behind ull see it came from California adventures. They had their own fireworks.
Ooh! I can confirm this!
It's from the World of Color water show; near the end of the show there's a big pyro flame moment.
Depending on the weather, it creates a smoke ring that hangs around in the sky for aaaages.
source: I got to work on the last show/watched the show every night after-hours through several months of testing. Usually on very overcast nights this would happen.
tldr: similar black ring caused a sensation last year when British schoolgirl Georgina Heap recorded a video of the phenomenon on her smartphone. The "Black Ring of Leamington Spa" was eventually traced to a fireworks test at nearby Warwick Castle. Yet another pyrotechnic test created the same sort of black ring over Florida in 2013. A nearly identical smoke ring, sighted over Chicago in 2012, was attributed to an electrical transformer that blew up.
A nearly identical smoke ring, sighted over Chicago in 2012, was attributed to an electrical transformer that blew up.
Yeah those tube shaped distribution transformers on power poles all over the US, make that sort of ring when they go pop.
Lmao, good job to OP. Not terrifying if anyone can Google why it happens in a few seconds.
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Looks like a rubber band on a marble countertop.
I saw this at first and thought I was on r/ConfusingPerspective lol
Can you hear it screaming?
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Jean Jacket?
Can’t be, they took a photo of the thing with their phone.
dont look it in the eyes
nope...
Sorry, farted.
Dude, what did you eat?
Campfire
Arrival!
This happens nearly every night at Disneyland. During world of color there is a big flash of fire which makes a smoke ring that slowly climbs into the sky. Nothing to worry about!
Unidentified Flying O.
Transformer explosion. Happens often, always makes this pattern.
One of many explanations can be found here
Oh, I made a mistake while photoshopping reality, lemme fix that real quick
When they start diesel generators, the exhaust pipes often cause these smoke rings, especially if they have a few hard pops during start-up.
See this video of a smoke ring generator making these rings.
Blown transformer. They usually do these, seen some IRL
No, there are actually machines that make these for fireworks shows. I saw one at burning man
Someone definitely blew a tranny
Thanks, so annoying that there's 10 joke comments before getting to the actual information! :)
An old, tired transformer just got its wings
A transformer exploded. That’s the smoke ring.
Someone up there dropped a hair tie. Good thing the clouds caught it.
Space ring worm. I didn't have this on my 2024 Bingo card.
We had something similar when detonation a 55 gallon drum of JP-8 fuel. Make a dirty smoke ring that lasted for awhile.
God dropped her hair tie.
I just updated sky.img. should be fixed now
Marble countertop, hair tie. Second edited darkening and zoomed. Third is same as 1st and 2nd with a flash on the camera. Armed because shadows showed up when photo was taken.
I thought the first pic was a hair tie on a marble counter.
Nope
Just a expired smoke cloud
It is just a vortex ring. Look up BIG original proposal for the powerplant with the ski slope on top.
Transformer burnout
I mean that's a smoke ring. Typically come from smoke stacks on HGV's... wouldn't say it's an "ominous ring"
Inverse vape smoke ring
It’s just floating there… MMM E N A C I N G L Y !!!
Caused by a firework from the original post, come on now.
the big racetrack in the sky. raise hell, praise dale.
I thought that was a Rubber band on snow
That's a hair tie on your kitchen counter
Praise the Yeti! Another hair tie offering!
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someone just let their hair down relax, no big deal yo
Thats just the San Ti making you see things
We get it, you vape.
A nasty hair tie on your windshield lmfao.
That's just jean jacket's cousin, try not to worry about him /s
We get it, you vape
Transformer exploded.
Maison Margiela all I see is numbers
Sorry c*ck ring broke off
When it aligns with the full moon around the equinox it sucks your soul out yer booty hole. Look it up
That's what they use to check if the wind is low enough for fireworks. Allows them to see the wind speed at multiple heights.
I thought that was a hair elastic on a marble countertop at first
Somebody's vape ring..😂😂
Sorry, dropped my hair tie
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ah i was wondering where i left my hair tie, thank you
A smudge on the lens? A SMUDGE on the LENS?!
Sorry I was vaping a black magic technique and tried to do a trick
That's just God smoking a doobie
Imagine seeing that shit after taking an edible
Dolphins.
It them, innit..
Congratulations! You’ve taken a photo of smoke.
It’s called the “ Sharpie Phenomenon “
Is it small, or far away? Needs banana for scale.
Stop bothering the giant space amoeba it's very sensitive,
Scully, you’re not gonna believe this…
Since you're at Disney and there pyrotechnics that would be the most likely cause.
The only other place I have seen something that looks like this is when a transformer on a power line explodes. It sends a similar black ring that floats upwards, looks kind of creepy, especially if you don't know what you're seeing and there isn't much breeze so it floats slowly and gets bigger.
It's likely a thing that happens every time they do those shows at Disney, and not likely a ufo. Or maybe it's a ufo disguised as a smoke ring. Nah.
Hair tie on a marble counter top.
It’s called a smoke vortex ring. Most likely from a blown transformer
We get it, you vape
At Disneyland firework show and is suspicious of smoke
That's just the hair tie gods stealing all the hair ties from people's draw, don't mind it
It’s writing from the aliens in ‘Arrival’
Friend in background blowing vape rings towards the sky
You can do these with certain fire emitters. It’s just a cool effect with smoke
Somewhere a power transformer just popped.
That’s my hair band
I thought it was just a flipped image if a hair tie on a cotton sheet until I saw the one with the god damn moon.
It's a hollow portal from bleach
Classic transformer smoke ring. When an electrical transformer catches fire they make this ring. Tons of examples online.
Disney is opening a dark portal to summon more evil flying attorneys.
Hueco Mundo coming in hot!
The hair tie I was looking for
First image looks like a coffee stain on a marble kitchen countertop
Thanks god. My cock ring flew off my finger at light speed and we couldn't find it.
Look like Nascar speedways.
When transformers blow they cause smoke rings like that
Nope
My girlfriend keeps loosing her hair ties.
The first picture looked like a rubber band on a marble counter top
Would love to see video if you took any. Would be a crime if you didn't
Power transformer on a post blew up.
Very typical smoking for this type of transformer failure.
It’s the under part of a plane masked in a mirror like “Paint”. When it’s passing over or in the sky it’s reflecting everything around it making it virtually invisible. The ring you’re seeing around the plane pod is a reflection of the night sky giving it an ominous ufo look while ascending into the clouds. I made all that up.
You people will do anything for attention
Fireworks 🎆
Vortex cannon?
The first thought that came to my head was “do you mean the circle you drew?” I am sorry. 😭
Someone flinged a hair bobble in the air lol
Arrival (2016)
A flock of birds circlejerking. Idk, in my head it sounded funnier.
Sorry.
Opposite firework
Do you smoke?
It looks like a hair band in a marble floor.
My missus hair bobble, see them everywhere around the house and the car now they’ve infiltrated the sky.
God's hair bobble fell out
Looks like the stuff I see floating inside my eyes when it’s very bright outside
Sorry I finally hit that dank ass vape trick last night
the cloud giant dropped his monster cock ring for his magnum dong
sick vape trick by the gods
Ooooooooo elden ring oooooooooooo
I thought it was a rubber band on a marble table. :"D
Nope.
Pretty sure you just caught an eye floater at the right angle.
Diesel engine or generator starting..
I am really glad that I am not a teenage clone in a giant robot right now.
I've seen diesel motors do that on startup.
Call Amy Adams, stat!
Nope
Uh oh… the sky blew out its O-ring.
the kids in the school bathroom be like
We made this once haha https://youtu.be/mxJogFc3HL4?feature=shared
Uzumaki type shit
Lol, I legit thought you had added a circle in paint and I was looking for the ominous ring inside it.