This phenomenon is called Sundogs, Mock Suns, Phantom Sun or Parhelia.
NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office head Bill Cooke says that he had, "never seen anything quite like it." Another onlooker, Kyle Winkleman, called it a "once-in-a-decade event."
Spaceweather writes that the extremely rare apparition was "almost certainly connected to Hurricane Sandy":
The core of the storm swept well north of Alabama, but Sandy's outer bands did pass over the area, leaving behind a thin haze of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. Sunlight shining through the crystals produced an unusually rich variety of ice halos.
"By my count, there are two sun dogs, a 22 degree halo, a parahelic circle, an upper tangent arc, and a parry arc," says Chris Brightwell, who also photographed the display. "It was amazing."
These were all recorded a few days or less prior to Hurricane Sandy making landfall.
Here is the video compilation of this beautiful, strange, rare nature phenomenon.
Source: sheilaaliens
11/3/12
Controlled glowing UFO captured over San Antonio, Texas - Oct 30, 2012
Witness report: I notice a large red glowing object that seemed to be traveling high in altitude.This object was huge and did not seem to be an aircraft.
When zooming in an unknown red object could be observed> This object seems to be emitting some kind of energy. It did not seem to reflect the sun's ray's, it seemed to be glowing. I pan back to look for some kind of reference point.(used the roof top's as a reference point).
Clearly this glowing object was under some sort of control. The UFO traveled in a southeastern direction. I did not hear any noise coming from this unknown object. This glowing object was clearly no aircraft, weather-balloon or satellite.
Source: saufotx
When zooming in an unknown red object could be observed> This object seems to be emitting some kind of energy. It did not seem to reflect the sun's ray's, it seemed to be glowing. I pan back to look for some kind of reference point.(used the roof top's as a reference point).
Clearly this glowing object was under some sort of control. The UFO traveled in a southeastern direction. I did not hear any noise coming from this unknown object. This glowing object was clearly no aircraft, weather-balloon or satellite.
Source: saufotx
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