The main object of this paper is the planar wave equation \[\bigg(\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}-a^2\varDelta\bigg)U(x,t)=f(x,t),\quad t\ge0, x\in \mathbb {R}^2,\] with random source $f$. The latter is, in certain sense, a symmetric $α$-stable spatial white noise multiplied by some regular function $σ$. We define a candidate solution $U$ to the equation via Poisson's formula and prove that the corresponding expression is well defined at each point almost surely, although the exceptional set may depend on the particular point $(x,t)$. We further show that $U$ is Hölder continuous in time but with probability 1 is unbounded in any neighborhood of each point where $σ$ does not vanish. Finally, we prove that $U$ is a generalized solution to the equation.