MOSCOW -- This picture of a donut-shaped cloud in the skies above Moscow has the internet world buzzing.

Millions witnessed an ominous ring-shaped cloud appear over Moscow's western districts, prompting citizens to stop in their tracks to record the phenomenon and put it on YouTube.

Some think it's a UFO.


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Others say it must have been photo-shopped or digitally enhanced.

But now a spokesperson with the Moscow weather department says the explanation is quite simple.

They say the formation is a cloud formed by an intrusion of arctic air and the sun shining from the west.