This is what happens when a twister meets up with a brushfire and takes it on a ride through the Australian Outback. Looks a little like the Eye of Sauron in reverse, no?

Reaching 100 feet high, the twirling flame was caught by filmmaker Chris Tangey on September 11th. The Australian writes:

In a show lasting some 40 minutes, Tangey says, the largest uprooted mulga trees and hurled them skywards, a “proper tornado”, while the most spectacular swallowed a bushfire, sending an arc of twisting orange up toward the heavens. “It was like a dance of giants, really,” Tangey says. “There was a red one, a black one, a white one and one made of fire.”

Read the whole story at The Australian and check out the video below.

(Via HuffPo)