No, this isn't clickbait: If you've never seen one of these before, I guarantee it'll surprise you. As a Fourth-of-July-celebrating American I thought I'd seen it all in fireworks, but this is the most unexpected type I've ever seen:
Depending on who you ask, the circular, UFO-like contraption is called a Girandola (Italian) or Girandole (French). The wheel-based structure is ringed with skyrockets, and both lightweight enough and well-balanced enough to take flight and leave that crazy helical smoke trail.
Or fire trail, as you'll see below. The Girandola we saw above was shot in Thailand, and as you saw they conserved their structure with a parachute. We Americans prefer to blow ours up when it reaches its apex, because that's how we do:
There's a slightly more impressive one here, but whomever posted it has disabled embedding.
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Typo: "whomever" should be "whoever"