UNIDENTIFIED FLOATING OBJECTS

MYSTERY OF 50FT SPINNING DISC ON RIVER

- ANDREW FORGRAVE

A BUS passenger who glanced out the window was astonished to see a giant white disc spinning on the surface of the River Dee in Denbighshire.

Gary Dixon was so astounded that, after alighting, he doubled back a mile along the river to find out more.

The 62-year-old from Flint had been set for a winter's day-out in Llangollen.

Instead he was drawn to the strange sight on the river, which turned out to be a circular sheet of ice he estimated at 50ft across.

The perfectly symmetrical disc was slowly rotating anti-clockwise on the water. Gary had stumbled across a rare phenomenon that usually only occurs in rivers in much colder parts of the world.

As they look too perfect to be natural, they've been dubbed a type of UFO - an Unidentified Floating Object.

"I first spotted it through trees from the bus," said Gary. "I thought, bloody hell, what on earth was that! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So, from Llangollen, I walked back east along the old railway track to find it. I stayed and watched it for about half-an-hour it was absolutely amazing. I'd never seen anything like it before.