The third video down is absolutely incredible. If it's genuine this could be the smoking gun. I hate to be Captain Obvious, but it can't be space debris at that altitude! It would fall to the ground! It appears to be a solid object as opposed to the rest of those "ring" videos. Those all seem to be smoke. Hm! Very, very interesting. Authentic? CG? Who can tell these days? Great find!

Number three definitely was the best. I do have to say, whenever people see amazing things, they always film crap as they stare!

Fascinating stuff

Anyone got any ideas on this phenomena ?

I think the 3rd video is fake,yah it looks cool but............did you notice how steady he was with the camera for the majority of the film and then when the UFO appears it gets all shaky and out of focus.That and the fact that the UFO is only on screen for a few seconds just like the typical hoax videos.

I was trying to consider what some of these might be and came up with only one conclusion:

Swarms of insects in some wierd "mating" frenzy. I've seen swarms before, in thick clouds above trees in particular. Not sure if they would swarm in a ring though and I'm not sure how this would account for some of the higher altitude sightings or white rings. Just an idea.

Will try to find info on "insect swarms".......

Interesting stuff eh.

3rd vid capture, the one from a seat forward of the port engine of the airliner, the object is another jet airliner, flying at an altitude below the airliner the video holder is in and at approximately 90 degrees flying from left to right. look carefully you can see the aircraft in the front of the "alleged ring".
The previous 2 videos and the following one are different, and are possibly unexplained.

Very unusual. I'm sure these aren't "crafts" but something obviously made them. Have a look at youtube under dolphin ring, bubble ring, or dolphin bubble ring, you'd be surprised. (sorry I don't know how to post a link)

Are there perhaps invisible sky creatures?

Thanks a lot allMIGHTY!! You just destroyed any hope of mystery in those videos!!

Have to agree with Mukiwa third one def looks like another aircraft at lower altitude

and the rest could maybe be explained with ALLMighty's posts

Originally posted by Ironside
Thanks a lot allMIGHTY!! You just destroyed any hope of mystery in those videos!!

You should be glad. One more phenomenon, which you are able to explain .

Hey, i´m very sorry but we should not try to hunt for ghosts.
The smoke rings are the most explanable thing to this phenomenon.

I´ve never heard about ring ufo sightings before.

I really believe in ufos but i finally want to see a real one.

Yeah defcon! very good find!!! this should explain and solve this phenomenon.

I think that this also proves that a lot of ufo sightings are unusual phenomena
caused by human or nature.

[edit on 16-6-2007 by allMIGHTY]

Excellents posts allMIGHTY and defcon5.

Explains a lot.

I have to say that altough we solved this, it was a very good post ufossydney.
We should be very skeptical and keep an open mind. We should try to stay on the way to find the truth and this is a step towards the truth.
This is one phenomena, that is not relatet to ufos but it helps us very well to find the truth.

Thanks for posting ufossydney!

allMIGHTY's right. This was a very goo topic. It was interesting and detailed, even though it was proven false. But isn't that why we are here? To narrow our search until we find the truth?

there were some guys at burningman in 2005 that were doing these smoke rings. they would linger in the sky for quite a while. really pretty at sunset.

IMO, just because we can make a little smoke ring at a backyard BBQ, this does not prove anything. I think these are ET ships with advanced stealth capabilities that are usually invisible but sometimes collect some water vapor along the edges or, in other cases, cloak themselves entirely in clouds. There are threads showing this on ATS. Often these ufos are visible in UV or infrared light.