Monday, March 16, 2015

Speeding Orb on Grand Central Station Ceiling

Photo date: December 9, 2014.  Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Here is a photo taken in Grand Central Station in New York.


The photo shows quite a few orbs, but the most interesting one is the one at the top left. Here is a closeup cropped from the photo above:


Note the "double displacement" effect, an effect which photographers call ghosting. It is caused when the speed of an object exceeds the shutter speed of a camera. Since the camera had a very fast effective shutter speed of about 1/1000 of a second, this orb was probably moving very fast, much faster than any insect would move. This photo is dramatic evidence that orbs move very rapidly.

How would a skeptic explain an image like this? He would probably claim that what we see here is an insect, despite the fact that it clearly has a round white shape unlike any insect. It is amazing how often skeptics will try to use insects as an explanation, no matter how little resemblance something has to an insect.  Last night on the "Caught on Camera" show on television, they reviewed the astonishing "Puckett's Ghost" case (described here, with a video link).  The case involved TV footage of a human figure apparently wearing overalls, who was seen mysteriously moving around in a parking lot, in a very anomalous way. A skeptic was interviewed, who assured us that what looks like a human moving about in overalls was really just an insect.  He somehow managed to keep a straight face while making this assertion.

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