{"id":39586,"date":"2025-11-14T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:46:08","slug":"mysterious-black-ring-over-disneyland-spooks-california-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39586\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious black ring over Disneyland spooks California drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious black ring appeared over <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/disneyland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disneyland<\/a>, spooking drivers passing by the Southern California amusement park Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show the alien-looking black band ominously hovering above the park around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.95019531;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37666548\" width=\"561\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/drivers-interstate-5-encountered-peculiar-115413782.jpg\" alt=\"A black ring in the clouds over Disneyland.\" class=\"wp-image-37666548\"  \/>A mysterious black ring appeared over Disneyland, spooking drivers passing by the Southern California amusement park Thursday morning. Lori Nayahalski\/KTLA5<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t dissipating, nor was it a flock of birds,\u201d Lori Nayahalski, who snapped a picture of the ring,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/mysterious-black-ring-spotted-over-disneyland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told KTLA<\/a>. \u201cReal-life \u2018Matrix\u2019 or just an orchestrated spoof \u2026 I don\u2019t know, but it was something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disneyland officials later confirmed what many park regulars likely guessed: The black ring is smoke pyrotechnics equipment used during the park\u2019s famous nightly fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.66233766;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37666550\" width=\"981\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/drivers-interstate-5-encountered-peculiar-115413781.jpg\" alt=\"A black smoke ring hovering above a building against a cloudy sky.\" class=\"wp-image-37666550\"  \/>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t dissipating, nor was it a flock of birds,\u201d Lori Nayahalski, who snapped a picture of the ring,\u00a0told KTLA. Lori Nayahalski\/KTLA5<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they tested the equipment Thursday morning before the park opened, spawning the eerie black cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Disneyland Resort has two nighttime spectaculars, \u201cWorld of Color\u201d at Disney California Adventure and \u201cFantasmic!\u201d at Disneyland Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mysterious black ring appeared over Disneyland, spooking drivers passing by the Southern California amusement park Thursday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17454,2136,6133,11647,1016,8688,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-39586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-amusement-parks","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-disneyland","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-mystery","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}