- Black Ring Spotted Over Theme Park
(June 17) -- When Denna Smith's family saw a black ring floating over the theme park they were visiting, they pointed their video camera to the sky.
Kings Dominion, the Virginia theme park, said what the family caught on tape was just smoke from a roller coaster called Volcano: The Blast Coaster.
"I'm thinking it that it might be what Kings Dominion said it was," UFO investigator Cameron Pack told WAVY-TV. Still, Pack is investigating the ring because it looks similar to a sighting at Virginia's Fort Belvoir in the 1950s.
Smith doesn't think it was smoke -- but she doesn't believe it was a UFO, either.
"Smoke usually looks smoky, cloudy ... this was a perfect circle," she told WAVY. "This thing was lined up so tight like it was a cut in the middle of the sky."
So what was it?
Smith, who said she thinks it's "still out there," believes it was a sign.
"God gives you signs and I just feel like that was a sign," she said. "I'm not sure what that sign meant but it meant a great deal to my family because when we went home, we all got in line and prayed together. We were freaking out."
Video at UPI.
These are the Fort Belvoir UFO photos from 1957:
The Condon Report (p.168) devoted 11 pages to this case. One morning in September, 1957 an Army private at Fort Belvoir, Va. was called from his barracks by his buddies to witness what appeared to be a black, ring-shaped UFO approaching. The private grabbed his Brownie camera and snapped 6 pictures of it, of which this was the first. After about 5 minutes, the black ring, which appeared "solid" to the soldier and glided steadily along, began to be "engulfed in white smoke."