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!

[FroggyTheGremlim]

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]