Space Station Photos : Mysterious 'ice circles' in remote Siberian lake baffle scientists

dailymail. ^ | 27th May 2009 | Claire Bates

[JoeProBono]

This strange almost perfect 'ice circle' has appeared on a frozen lake in Siberia. While scientists have ruled out UFO involvement, they are puzzled as to how the mysterious, 2.5mile-wide geological phenomenon has formed in Lake Baikal. It was spotted at the southern edge of the lake while another was seen near the centre. The images were taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station circling 220 miles above Earth.

[JoeProBono]

The ice circle measures 2.5miles across and was spotted on Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world

The two mysterious circles were pictured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station

[Ken522]

Them Russkis are up to somethin’ again!

[Sacajaweau]

Hot spot below?? Old Mountain top?

The cracks say the volume is shrinking?? From heat??

[cripplecreek]

Interesting. I’m suspecting some kind of current. I’ve got a book of Michigan mysteries that shows the mysterious ice circles on a lake near my home.

[cripplecreek]

There are volcanic vents under Baikal.

[gridlock]

They Caught Me!

[eCSMaster]

Bush’s fault. And Karl Rove too!

[GOPJ]

Underground bases? Underground nuke tests?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

yeah, was going to report that it’s the same pranksters who do the crop circles in England.

[Dixie Yooper]

In the last few years, the Iron County Reporter, a weekly out of Iron River,MI, published a photo of an ice circle on the Paint River during the early Spring.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks...kinda what I was inferring....

[cripplecreek]

I remember the thread.

[JoeProBono]

Massive 10ft Spinning Ice Circle Discovered in the UK

[Bellflower]

Do the circles look the same? I wonder if the second circle in the picture also has cracks.

[BigCinBigD]

Some people will do anything to hide Pot from helecopters.

[bgill]

Aliens!

[cripplecreek]

Here's one on Mud lake in Liberty Township Michigan.



If I recall correctly they form pretty much every year.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Them Russkis are up to somethin’ again!

They gotta have a plan. Russians don't take a dump without a plan...($1 to Fred Thompson)

[mosaicwolf]

That is one of the Russkies nuclear torpedoes that they were testing during the cold war. Many of the torpedoes malfunctioned and went to the bottom where they were unrecoverable. The heat generated by the plutonium causes a change in the water temperature at the surface. These circles will appear for 250 million years and then suddenly disappear. Not to worry though, we have a trillion plus dollar debt.

[JoeProBono]

[central_va]

Everyone knows than alien space craft always land on ice. Come on, don’t you people get the Enquirer?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

That was my guess...subterranean thermal activity.

[Renegade]

Alien craft buried UNDER the ice as in “ The Thimg”

[usmcobra]

Ice zits.....nothing to worry about.....happens all the time....(repeat as necessary)

[Wildbill22]

They dumped former naval nuclear reactors in the North Sea, why not Lake Baikal?

[ballplayer]

The Big Zero Obama must have been there

[never4get]

Aliens!

OMG, THEY'RE COMING....WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE....AHHHHHHHH!

[wolfcreek]

Impact? Earth fart?

[JoeProBono]

[Royal Wulff]

I’m tired of your UFO posts. Please find a forum more suitable to whack jobs.

[wolfcreek]

Someone stole my Halloween costume from the ‘80s.

[kickonly88]

Motorcycle races?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_HU5099tg

[JoeProBono]

[palmer]

I'm tired of your UFO posts.

I guess it falls into the category of humor. But while we're at it, I am not particularly happy with your (Joe) posting of images from private registration websites. If you are going to post images, please try to use imageshack or a website from the media or any other site that has a public "whois" owner rather than one labelled "private registration". All views of the images (i.e. the thread that it is on) are tracked by the owner of the site. The time of the image view can be easily correlated with the time of a posting thereby identifying the IP address of the poster.

[Kirkwood]

Ice circles are not that uncommon. You just have to be there with a camera at the right time. Now that camera phones are so common, there are many of these being photographed.

[central_va]

No, No, No!. These circles are made when a class B intergalactic explorer lands on earth with a defective anti-gravity cooling modulator. That is why they landed on the ice in the first place. It’s standard proceedure for them. Sheesh can’t you people do a little research.

[a fool in paradise]

It's a sign. OBAMA's coming.

[a fool in paradise]

Unusual that the photo carries a NASA “copyright”. I thought that all images from our government were copyright free. Same with government publications (many people published the Warren Report of the JFK assassination, for example).

You can contact the Library of Congress for thousands of reproducable images from other sources we funded as well.

You may have to give credit, but it isn’t a copyright.

[Wildbill22]

Of course, a defective anti-gravity cooling modulator. Why didn’t I think of that...

[camle]

mebbe it’s a hit from an illudium PU-32 explosive space modulatohr!

Marvin is going to be so very angry!

[SunkenCiv]

JPB, thanks, and I think you posted a topic about ice circles in American streams and rivers, a while back?

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[stayathomemom]

I know nothing about this so I'll opine.;-) I would think that the presence of underwater springs in a spring fed lake could cause a uniform thawing of ice in a circular shape. If the temperature then dipped low enough, this area could refreeze. Why it would apparently freeze from the center out, I don't know, since I know nothing about this anyway.;-)

[Scythian]

LOL !! The Spawn of Obama is rising from the sea ... (where have I heard that before)

[Billthedrill]

Funny how you never see these in Florida...

[Monkey Face]

It’s probably the other end of the Blob that’s under Nevada.

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!

[SunkenCiv]

Aieeee! Run for your lives! ;’)

[Monkey Face]

We’re DOOMED!!!

[cripplecreek]

Yeah, they’re apparently entirely natural since they seem to be pretty common. I did a quick goole image search and found lots of pictures of ice circles all over the place.

[Lee'sGhost]

I had a zit on my forehead like that once.

[cripplecreek]

Looks like ringworm to me.