FLOATING ICE CIRCLE

FLOATING ICE CIRCLE

Westbrook, Maine Ice Disk - Presumpscot River from City of Westbrook, Maine on Vimeo.


Spinning in the Presumpscot, this alien-looking ice disk has Westbrook all abuzz
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/01/14/alien-looking-disk-of-ice-on-presumpscot-river-has-westbrook-buzzing/

A disk of ice roughly 100 yards across that formed on the Presumpscot River and was slowly rotating and gaining size Monday had Westbrook buzzing almost as much as when city police spotted a giant snake eating a beaver in roughly the same location in June 2016.

Nothing ever came of those mysterious snake sightings – the reptile was dubbed “Wessie” by locals – but the sight of an alien-looking circle of ice stuck in the river had some people wondering about that section of the river’s knack for producing weird events.

“It kind of looks like a crop circle,” said Doug Bertlesman, a web developer at Ethos Marketing. His company is at 17 Ash St. The four-story building with a roof deck overlooks the river where the ice disk formed.

It’s pretty wild to look at,” he said. “It’s certainly not every day that you can watch a spinning circle of ice in the river.”

There were ducks sitting on it. The ducks were rotating on this big Lazy Susan. It was a big duck-go-round,” he said.