Giant spinning ice disk on Maine river goes viral

A spinning disk of ice is drawing visitors to a river in Maine and making quite a splash on social media.

The 100-yard frozen sheet is turning counter-clockwise as it sits in the Presumpscot River in the city of Westbrook, near Portland.

This aerial video shows the scale and speed of rotation.

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Watch this time-lapse to see it spin faster.

Some observers are seeing the moon in the ice.

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A Portland pizza shop sees the ice as a spinning Neopolitan pie.

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We've been telling you for years that our large pizza is bigger. The crew in Westbrook finally decided to prove it. #portlandpieco #reallybigpizza #icedisc #westbrookmaine #presumpscotriver

A post shared by Portland Pie Company (@portlandpieco) on Jan 14, 2019 at 7:16pm PST

Or it may be aliens from another planet.

Perhaps our greatest fear is that the aliens *obviously* controlling The Disk have declared #Wallbagel a false idol and now plan a reckoning.Now with time-lapse video. https://t.co/sQ0Qm3Ycok

— Portland Press Herald (@PressHerald) January 15, 2019