Comments on: Flying doughnut

By: Me!

Me! — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:17:51 +0000

The updated picture is a far cry from the picture posted here. The original looks eerie, nipple, plug, pimple, alien or a crater! Or you wont know whether it is floating or not. The updated detailed picture shows the texture of the whatever it is and we have much more reason to panic!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:54:41 +0000

Looks like it’s been updated – much more detail now visible

By: Lyn

Lyn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:36:30 +0000

I actually went out in the pilot boat from Sutton Bridge with the pilots who guide the ships into the River Nene. I asked them about Trial Bank as i’d seen it on a map. They confirmed it was built as a freshwater reservoir in the 70’s but the plan was abandoned as too costly. From the side view it has a raised outer rim. It is currently inhabited by sea birds and seals.
Not much info available but this site has a bit http://www.washestuary.org.uk/ and here http://www.fenlandlincs.com/Scottwalk

By: crunchynut

crunchynut — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:56:26 +0000

there’s someone on it! if you scroll south (still on the island/doughnut/experiment) and you zoom in, there appears to be a person on it (or some kind of tri-point camera work)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:15:20 +0000

The image resolution on this has been dramatically improved.

If anything it is even weirder when you zoom in close.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:04:30 +0000

What the hell is it? It just seems completely random and out of place. And why is the water its in all multicoloured?

By: LittleGreenMan

LittleGreenMan — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:48:02 +0000

The first thing that came to mind was the footage Matin Stubbs captured from a Nasa feed (20 minutes in):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9080369676973948865&q=smoking+gun

By: Claire Melton

Claire Melton — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:19:42 +0000

I have actually walked out to the smaller one to the south-east of it, (I lived in the village to the south), and that one is just a small hill full of rabbit droppings! I’ve always heard from the villagers that they were going to try to make a reservoir but didn’t get very far. I always meant to take a boat out there one day…

By: Babaganoosh

Babaganoosh — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:33:57 +0000

^–kjfitz is correct, it is in fact a “trial bank,” apparently some sort of reservoir to catch the fresh water coming from the Nene River into The Wash. But it is almost impossible to find any info on it.
I would love to see a picture of it but from what I can tell the only picture on the net is the one kjfitz provided. There has got to be another pic of it somewhere…

By: rob

rob — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:08:31 +0000

I think it may be some sort of concrete structure for mooring boats or it may be a large piece of wood that has fallen off a boat or something- the pale colour is probably due to moss etc. growing on it.