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Going Round the Sun in Circles
Mar 14, 2011

On the morning of 26 June 1873, two citizens of Fort Scott, Kansas (37º50´ N, 94º42´ W), recorded an unusual appearance of the rising sun:

“The sky was clear, and the sun rose entirely unobscured. When the disk of the sun was about half way above the horizon, the form of a huge serpent, apparently perfect in form, was plainly seen encircling it, and was visible for some moments.”
As the pair were “willing, if necessary, to make affidavit of their assertions” and the editor of the local paper had “all confidence in the credibility of our witnesses,” this tidbit of information may conceal a genuine transient phenomenon on the sun – but what could that have been?
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