A unique solar phenomenon deserves a unique 911 call.
Residents in the Tampa, Fla. area were treated last week with a sun halo in the sky — a rare phenomenon in which a circle appears to surround the sun. The phenomenon occurs when light from the sun or moon is refracted by ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds.
Many people enjoyed the sight, but the view from the sky alarmed one woman enough to call police from a Tampa bus station to inform them of the weird, big black circle in the sky.
“This has never happened before in Tampa, Fla. Please go outside and look up in the sky and look at this weird object,” she pleads with the dispatcher. “It’s a big dark circle and it’s all the way around and it has never been in the United States of America. Never, ever.”
The call lasted for more than two minutes as she pleads with police to check it out and inform the media.
The dispatcher asks for her address and said she will send an officer to the scene — though the caller notes it can be seen from anywhere.
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