Onlookers watch a large, circular ice floe spinning slowly in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, Jan. 16, 2019. These huge, spinning disc usually form in a slow-moving, rotating part of ...

Physics causes some strange phenomena, like slowly-rotating discs of ice on a frozen river that resemble UFO saucers. But have no fear, science is here to explain away your excitement. Michigan ...

A huge, spinning disc of ice – roughly 100 yards in diameter – has formed in the freezing waters of the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. A Westbrook city official captured this ...

VESTABURG, Mich. (WOOD) — Viewers may be skeptical of the video clip below showing a perfectly circular ice disc spinning in a river, but the phenomenon is completely natural. Check out the ...

An enormous circle of ice has formed in the Presumpscot river in the middle of the town. The disc, estimated at 90 metres in diameter, is slowly rotating anti-clockwise like a frozen carousel.

"A vortex is formed where less dense warm water rises to the surface and interacts with the cold ice above. The convection created helps to keep the disc spinning," the post said. Flowing water is ...

HOUGHTON LAKE, Mich., Dec. 15 (UPI) --A Michigan woman on a snowmobiling trip captured video of a bizarre phenomenon: a disc of ice slowly rotating on the surface of a river. Karla S. Dahms posted ...

WESTBROOK, Maine (CBS/AP) — Maine's giant spinning ice disc that quickly gained international fame seems to have met its end. The formation in the Presumpscot River in Greater Portland stopped ...

Spinning ice disc spotted in Michigan river near Tahquamenon Falls A Michigan state park ranger this week captured an unusual natural phenomenon on video at the lower Tahquamenon Falls State Park ...

A huge, spinning disc of ice – roughly 100 yards in diameter – has formed in the freezing waters of the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. A Westbrook city official captured this ...

A Michigan state park ranger this week captured an unusual natural phenomenon on video at the lower Tahquamenon Falls State Park. "Ranger Eric captured this fascinating phenomenon at the Lower Falls.