описывать круги – English translation

wheel; spin; cycle; circle (Kendall described what she speculated to be the ufonauts' effort to beat a hasty retreat: "When he did this, the man in front reached down and took hold of something like a lever beside him. (...) He pushed it back and forth and the saucer, or whatever you'd call it, started to circle slowly, still close to the building, in an anti-clockwise direction.