Glowing circles of the Indian ocean

In 1976 summer of the Soviet research vessel under the name "Vladimir Komarov" plied the expanses of the Arabian sea. Shortly before midnight, when all crew members not engaged on watch were asleep, captain Petrenko called to the bridge. There stood the log Navigator and shouted something, pointing to the water.

Directly around the vessel is rotated round object with a radius of 150-200 m. the Circle was moving against the direction clockwise around the center, from which came the long light. The sonar recorded depth of 170 m. the water Temperature was 26 degrees. After 30 minutes, a glowing circle disappeared and never came back.

But it was not the first meeting of the sailors with this amazing natural phenomenon, which occurs exclusively in the waters of the Indian ocean: it has long been known to scientists. For the first time met the crew of the ship "Volgar" from England in 1879. 10 Jul at 22 hours close to the Indian subcontinent, the sailors saw with port and starboard two luminous circle emanating from the center rays. One of the objects rotated counterclockwise and the other in the opposite direction. Captain Evans was able to fix the speed of their rotation. She was 130 km/h.

Although Evans was very well known and respected scientist, a member of the Geographical society of Britain, his message that nobody took seriously. The following 1880 sailors ships "Shockin" from England at the intersection of the Eastern part of the Indian ocean have once again witnessed this strange phenomenon. Captain Harris sent the ship directly in the center of the circle.

In the same year, the British sailors of the ship "Patna" in the Persian Gulf on her way she saw two glowing circle. They were rotated at a speed of 160 km/h in opposite directions.

Since then, reports of encounters with mysterious glowing objects in the Indian ocean began to fall one after another. By 1973, when these circles saw the crew of the Soviet ship "Anton Makarenko" such observations have already gathered more than 60.

It was found that the mysterious circles behave differently. Usually on the surface of the ocean there were one or two glowing circle. Each of them came rays of a few hundred meters. Sometimes the circles were lit so that you could read.

After some time, strange circles disappeared. The nature of these phenomena is still not explained. According to some scholars, is the result of a huge concentration in the water of plankton, which in certain conditions, floats on the surface and it forms a luminous spot. How to explain correct form and going from the center rays, but also high rotation speed? More than a hundred years scientists still can't solve the riddle.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»