Circles on the field and other formations. Russia

Residents of Yekaterinburg witnessed a paranormal phenomenon. On the night of the sixth to the seventh of November, a circular pattern appeared on the playground in the courtyard of the houses along the streets of Zwilling, 53 and Mashinnaya, 42.

From a clearly defined center in the form of a circle with a diameter of about 50 centimeters, numerous rings of regular diametric shape diverged. The interval between them was approximately 10-15 centimeters, and the diameter of the entire pattern was about 30 meters. All the concentric circles, consisting of alternating light snow bands and dark bands of soil visible from under the snow in places of thawing, were almost identical in structure and size.

"The circles are located a few meters from a residential building, on a playground with iron swings and ladders," says ufologist, head of the Monitoring Station of Ural Anomalistics "URAN" Dmitry Volobuev. – This is alarming, since snow rings are always formed not somewhere, but necessarily on children's playgrounds – in all cities where such cases have been recorded, even in the CIS countries. There is some kind of pattern."

When analyzing the anomalous phenomenon, ufologists came to the consensus that the circles were not intentionally made by someone. "Too laborious and pointless work, plus the absence of boot marks in the snow. It is also unlike the activity of vortices of air flows (micro tornadoes), since the circles were relatively smooth at the edges and not spiral. In addition, they were formed at 10 degrees below zero, when the snow was loose and volatile," Dmitry Volobuev notes. According to him, there was an almost instantaneous powerful thermal warming of the snow cover from a height, which gave a profile thawing of snow. It is unclear what kind of source it could be.

"The involvement of UFOs cannot be ruled out. It can be assumed that all these circles on the snow were made by ray clusters of so-called "solid light" released from UFOs hovering at a low altitude. These rays themselves could be invisible if their main part was in the ultraviolet and infrared range. Our Ukrainian colleagues, when they investigated a similar phenomenon in Kiev, came to exactly this conclusion. The capital's ufologists, faced with circles near Moscow, also considered this version. Although there is no need to rush to premature conclusions. Therefore, the impact of a hypothetical UFO, which, by the way, no one has seen, should be left at the hypothesis level for lack of any clues," Dmitry Volobuev notes.