Orange Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 2)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious orange orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation. None of the objects photographed was the moon. 

The photo below shows an orange orb I photographed near a building on Park Avenue in New York. The orb seems to have little tinges of green.  It was not the moon, and did not appear in the next photo I took from this angle.

 

The photo below shows an orange orb I photographed near a building in New York. It wasn't the moon, which was only a half moon on this night.

 

I took the photo below at a park area that I call "the spooky walkway" because when I photograph it, I get a kind of "vanishing into the darkness" effect. On this night this spooky walkway was made spookier by the appearance of a mysterious orange orb.

 The photo below shows an orange orb I photographed near a building in New York.

 The photo below shows a blue orb and an orange orb I photographed near a building in New York City.

 We see below two photos I took in 2017. The left photo shows a mysterious orange orb I photographed on August 17, 2017.  The right photo shows a similar-looking orange orb I photographed two days earlier. They both appeared near the same building. The orb on the left is left-aligned with the name "Marco," which is the Spanish version of my name.

 The sky orb I photographed below looks rather like a huge Ritz cracker floating in the sky. 

Some Are Striped

Photo date March 2, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors. 

To finger-swipe through 800 other photos I took of mysterious striped orbs, use the link here. 

An Orb Forming Into a Face Matching His Mother's?

 In a post on this site not long ago I quoted a book by an anonymous witness claiming to have seen a ball of light transform into the figure of a child. I mentioned that an account like that is second-class evidence, because of the failure of the witness give his name.  Many similar accounts, I noted, were given by witnesses who gave their names, and also often gave their addresses. 

It did not take long after writing that post to find just such an account. On page 118 of the March 10, 1876 edition of the periodical The Spiritualist, which you can read here, we have an account by the named witness George Starnes, who gives his address. He describes observations he recently had at "the Spiritual Institution, 19,  Church Street, Islington."  He states this:

"Several spirit-hands now touched us; a hoop was placed round my neck, and a hand was distinctly seen to take it off. Several partly materialised forms were seen. A column of light was seen between a gentleman and myself, and Lilly afterwards informed us that my mother had tried to show herself, but had not power enough, but that she would probably succeed next time. On the last occasion a spirit—Daniel Watts—said in a loud distinct voice, ' Good evening, Mr. Bullock,'  and ' Good evening, Mrs. Bullock.'  He then  showed us some beautiful spirit lights. A long arm and hand were then projected from the cabinet and held out to me. I took the hand,  saying, 'Is this your hand, mother?' when my hand was violently shaken three times, and then lifted up as high as I could reach. The hand and arm were quite solid, and long and thin as my mother’s would be.

A hall of light was now seen at the aperture, which gradually resolved itself into the appearance of the face of my mother when on her death bed; this was repeated several times. Then a very large ball of light, quite opaque and intensely white, a living, moving mass of light such as I had never witnessed before, was seen to leave the medium’s body and ascend to the aperture; moving to and fro like an ambient flame, it took the shape of the head and face of my mother,  with a large high cap, with wide border, thus showing the full face,  which continued for about two minutes to nod to me and to turn itself about that I might view it in its various phases. I most distinctly traced in this representation the high cheek hones, the thin face, and taper chin of my mother, who has been ' dead ' about eight years. Another ball of light was now visible, a much smaller one, and this resolved into the head and face of a little child, and was at once recognised as a child belonging to a lady in the circle, which child had died some time ago."

Around page 295 of the document here, we have an account of many strange observations. One claim seems to refer to hypnosis when it refers to putting someone to sleep. We read this: 

"Madame Z. saw her own astral body form itself, at the distance of about one metre, on her right side, in the shape of a luminous, bluish cloud. When Mr. de R. put Mireille to sleep she saw a ball of light detach itself from her head, and remain on top of it."

As the account does not give real full names, as evidence it is inferior to the evidence provided by George Starnes, which meets several criteria of first-class evidence, such as a named witness reporting what he saw very recently, with the report being published soon after it was written. 

Odd Features

 Photo date: February 24, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

 We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orange Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 1)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious orange orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation. None of the objects photographed was the moon. 

The photo below shows a mysterious orange orb (with a kind of purple tinge) that I photographed near the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. 

The photo below shows a mysterious orange orb I photographed near a building on Park Avenue in New York City.

 

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed above a building. The moon on this night was less than a half moon.

In the top right of my photo below, we see an orange sky orb that rather seems to be inside a larger red sky orb.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky in 2019:

Below is my 2017 photo showing a very unusual pair of orange-colored sky orbs near a building in New York. 

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed in the sky.

Mystery Orbs Mentioned in a Scientific Paper

 The scientific paper "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)"  (which you can read here) has many authors. The paper has this passage on page 13:

"During the last years of World War II, Allied pilots, in both the European and Pacific theaters, began reporting unidentified aerial phenomena that in daylight appeared to be small metallic, sometimes translucent, spheres; and at night appeared to be spherical lights ranging from red to yellow in color [74]. These objects, which earned the nickname 'foo fighters', would often pace the airplanes, sometimes flying right off their wingtips. Reports were made by pilots from the RAF, the Polish Division attached to the RAF [73], the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), the South African Air Force (SAAF) [75], and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) [75, 73, 65, 76]."

We also have this reference on page 17:

"One of these events was witnessed by test pilot Major J. C. Wise as he prepared to perform a test of the XP-84 jet. The object was spherical in shape and was flying against the wind at an estimated speed of at least 200 mph."

Around pages 20-21 we read of the observation by many of "green fireballs," seen in New Mexico in December 1948 and January 1949.  We read this:

"Throughout December 1948 and January 1949, the number of green fireballs observed in New Mexico continued to increase and were observed by Air Intelligence Officers at Kirtland AFB, Air Defense Command officials, a number of distinguished scientists at Los Alamos, as well as La Paz, himself. In addition, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto (and more than 15 asteroids), had observed a total of three green fireballs during the wave, which he claimed 'were unusual in behavior compared to normal green fireballs' [95]."

We are told that in February 1949  a conference was called to discuss their origin, a conference including the famous physicist Edward Teller.  We read this:

"La Paz insisted that the green fireballs could not be meteors because their trajectories were too flat, their color too green, and that no meteoritic material had been recovered. Teller maintained that since no sound, or sonic boom, was associated with them, they could not be meteors but must be some kind of electro-optical effect [65]. The conference ended with the consensus being that the green fireballs were some kind of natural non-meteoritic phenomenon."

The paper also has this passage on page 57:

"The 'Hessdalen lights' [259] represent the prototype of anomalous light phenomena in the atmosphere. They generally consist of multi-shaped and multicolored balls of light, characterized by a long duration, and sometimes by high-energy emission. The lights range in size from half a meter to 30 meters. Very short-lasting 'flashes' in the sky most often precede Hessdalen Light phenomena. Sometimes plasma-like orbs overlap with the transient appearance of apparently structured phenomena. The reason for this connection is not known yet, but it should be investigated in depth."

The next page refers to this:

"3. The constancy of temperature, the self-containment characteristics of the light balls, and the coexistence of white and red spheres of equal size. 

4. The sudden way in which the phenomenon turns on and off, and the formation of clusters of light balls, also with characteristics of the expulsion of secondary orbs."

An Orb Gradually Forming Into the Figure of a Child?

The 500+ page book "Essays From the Unseen" (which you can read here) is a massive 1885 testimonial by a person claiming to have seen many paranormal wonders.  We do not know the author's name, as he puts only a name of A. T. T. P on his title page. As evidence for the paranormal the book must be classified as less than first-class, only because of the author's refusal to give his name. There were very many people in the nineteenth century who claimed to have seen similar wonders, but who boldly gave their full names (and often even their addresses) when reporting their observations. When you have such a situation, the person too timid to give his name must be classified as a second-class witness. 

The orb-relevant part of the book comes on page 45, when the author states this:

"On one occasion I was sitting at No. 15, Southampton Row, in the company of several others, the Sensitives present being Miss Wood, and a Lady of the name of Fairlamb, and Mr. Herne, a well-known medium, when the figure of a small negro child of four or five years of age, whether boy or girl I did not know, gradually formed from a Ball of light at my feet. I put my hand on the crisp Negro hair of the child. This figure afterwards disappeared in the same manner as it formed, that is, gradually."

We should not exclude this claim merely because of its fantastic-sounding claim, as many similar wonders were reported by witnesses who gave their names and all the details of their observations, including relevant dates and places of observation. You can read about some of their accounts by looking at the 11 posts here.