Avideo of a strange black ring of smoke hovering over the Russian capital has gone viral on social media, sparking a range of questions on Twitter.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, shared a clip on his Twitter page on Monday that has so far been viewed more than 2.2 million people. It shows the thick black ring over Moscow, which gradually gets fainter by the end of the clip.
Gersaschenko captioned the video: “Residents of Moscow publish videos of a black circle in the city’s sky. What do you think happened here?”
Residents of Moscow publish videos of a black circle in the city's sky.
What do you think happened there? pic.twitter.com/Ne9CIEDUhI
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) March 27, 2023
Other videos of the black ring have begun to circulate on social media as well. One clip, that has so far been viewed more than 220,000 times shows it at a different angle. The ring is seen briefly rising higher into the sky in this clip.
Moscow… BAVOVNA or WTH is this…. pic.twitter.com/FyAWAutZ6I
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) March 27, 2023
Despite the speculation among social media users, with some suggesting the video had been faked, or was proof of aliens, similar phenomena have been seen multiple times across the world.