The Mystery Orbs Were Super-Fast

 Below is a news account that appeared in the January 22, 1953 edition of the Madera Tribune, which you can read here. We read of weird sky orbs that changed color and moved at blazing speeds. 

For non-English readers, here is a quotation:

"Strange balls of colored light, sometimes moving slowly and sometimes streaking through the skies over northern Japan so swiftly that a 600-mile-per-hour U. S. jet couldn’t get near, were reported here today. The objects were seen both on Dec. 29 and Jan. 9. according to Col. Curtis Low of Needham, Mass., commander of the 39th Air Division, which is responsible for the defense of Northern Japan. He said the glowing balls, sighted only a few minutes flying time from a Russian Far East air base, change continuously from red to green to white. They have been spotted. Low said, by U. S. radar observers and American pilots. 'These were well corroborated sightings by trained men—not the reports of a few imaginative people.' he said."

UFO Guy Says People Are Seeing Orbs in Their Homes

 Below is a statement made on January 9 by Stan Gordon, who has the web site "Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone":

"More startling are the ongoing reports of mysterious incredibly low level and close range luminous orbs, or balls of light. I became aware of these reports in the 1960s. I have been calling them, 'mini-UFOs' for years. I often have reports of these spherical objects at various altitudes in the sky. The incidents that I am most intrigued with are when these objects are encountered remarkably close to witnesses, low to the ground, or even on the ground. These objects have reportedly paced and entered moving vehicles. People have told me that these mystery spheres have tapped on the windows of houses.

There have been cases reported where these luminous orbs have appeared inside of homes. In some  instances, witnesses I interviewed were only a few feet away from those objects. Some people reported physiological effects as well.

 Many of  these reports describe luminous spheres of assorted colors. Orange, blue, and white are commonly reported. These objects often range in size from that of a  golf ball to a foot or two in diameter. Some are smaller and others are larger. I have also talked with witnesses who have also encountered these mystery spheres at very close range and in some cases described the objects as appearing solid and metallic. These  mystery orbs  in many cases just suddenly vanish, move out of sight, or move through the walls of a structure.".

The home page of Stan's UFO/UAP site can be reached here.

A Yellow Orb

 Photo date: January 13, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Big Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 7)

 Below are some photos I previously took of large mysterious orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation. 

In my photo below from 2018 we see a large sky orb that rather seems to be lit from below. 

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My photo below from 2018 shows another large blue orb near a building:

My photo below from 2018 show one orb much larger than the other:

My 2018 photo here makes you ask: two orbs or one?

I gave this 2018 photo of mine a caption of "Harpooned?"

It's interesting how this 2018 photo of mine shows an orb that looks so much brighter than the building to its left:

My 2018 photo below shows a translucent sky orb:

A Smoke Alarm Triggered From the Great Beyond?

 Less than an hour ago a very strange thing happened in the house where I live. The house's state-of-the-art Google Nest smoke alarm system went off, causing smoke alarms to go off all over the house. I and another occupant of the house looked in every room, and found no trace of any smoke or mist. No one was cooking at the time. The last person to cook was myself. I had taken a few minutes to make an omelet about 25 minutes before the smoke alarm went off, but I had used the ventilator fan, and had turned off the gas. The electrically powered smoke alarms of the house are all on the ceiling, 9 feet or higher than the floor below them.  There was no electricity anomaly. 

We have the mystery of what caused the smoke alarm to go off. There was no sign of any smoke or mist in any room of the house when the alarm went off; there was no odd smell anywhere;  and all occupants are non-smokers.  The whole house was clean, and no one in the house or its yard had been doing anything this day to raise dust, or anything unusual  The Google Nest system (which gives audible messages) said the alarm came from "the den."  There is no room in the house we call a den. Conceivably someone setting up the system may have labeled one of the house's rooms as "the den." 

I have an interesting speculation that could conceivably explain the event. Maybe the event was caused by communication from the Great Beyond. My late father's name was Dean. Imagine that you are some invisible power that has the ability to make a fleeting manifestation in our world. You might choose some type of manifestation that has a  resemblance to your name. So if I died and my soul survived and I wanted to leave some manifestation indicating I had survived death, I might perhaps leave a mysterious mark on the wall.  That mark might be a sign that some manifestation had come from Mark. (The English word "mark" meaning a variety of things including "a small area having a different color from its surrounding" has the same spelling as my name Mark.)

In this case the word  "den" resembles my late father's name: Dean. How would a deceased Dean try to leave a sign? Maybe by triggering a smoke alarm in a way that would cause it  to speak a word ("den") close to the sound of his name, Dean. Of course, this hypothesis is highly speculative. 

I do know that the same smoke detector mysteriously went off (when there was no smoke or mist in the house)  on the night a relative of mine died far away, as I reported here.  See my post here for something very spooky that happened where I live on my late father's birthday.

I get many mysterious-seeming events like this where I live, such as my PlayStation machine mysteriously turning on by itself ten times on ten different days, and a green light in the bathroom mysteriously turning off and on dozens of times. 

In the nineteenth century a huge number of people reported seeing dramatic signs they interpreted as manifestations from the dead. To read about the reports, read my "Spookiest Years" series here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,  here, here and here.

 Postscript: A mind-boggling event occurred in the hour after I finished writing this post -- one of those things that makes you say, "If this was coincidence, the chance of it was 1 in a million." Because the event is closely related to the content of another post, it is described in a postscript to another post in my series of posts with a tag of "miscellaneous paranormal events" that you can read here and continue to read by pressing Older Posts at the bottom right.  

In the event described above, part of the oddness was that the smoke detector failed to turn off after a few presses of its button, which should have turned it off, even though there was no sign of smoke, mist, vapor  or dust anywhere. Only after several minutes would a button press turn off the alarm. Later in the same day (also with no smoke, mist, vapor or dust anywhere) the smoke detector again went off, but this time a single press of the button made it silent.  The alarm was silent throughout the next week. 

Post-postscript: On January 15 I got the orb below apparently next to the smoke alarm that was acting so strangely.

The Ghost Expert Suggested : Don't Ignore Orbs

On page 314 of the January 31, 1890 edition of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, which you can read here, we have a long article by the extremely accomplished psychology and parapsychology scholar Frederic W. H. Myers.  On page 332 Myers stated this while discussing apparition sightings, using the term "phantasmal figure" to refer to an apparition:

"Sometimes we have the phantasmal figure seen as though illuminated on a dark background. Sometimes it appears as in a disc or oval of light. Sometimes its contour is indistinct, and it resembles a luminous cloud, either for the first moments of its appearance or throughout all its stay. Sometimes there is no figure at all, but a phantasmal 'ball of light,' or a brilliant diffused glow, which seems a sufficiently unique experience, and coincides sufficiently closely with a death, to have some claim to rank as a veridical phantasm. Now from all this I argue that the phantasmogenetic agency at work-whatever that may be-may be able to produce effects of light more easily than definite figures."

We have here a fascinating speculation by one of history's greatest scholars of anomalous phenomena: the speculation that maybe visible orbs appear when mysterious psychic powers are producing their less dramatic efforts, with full human forms appearing when more vigorous or successful efforts occur.  Similarly, it takes much less effort for you to quickly bang on your neighbor's door to alert him than for you to write a note and slip it under the door. 

Perhaps for some mysterious unseen agency there is an "easiest, harder, hardest" situation in which orbs visible only in photographs are the easiest effects, orbs visible to the naked eye are the harder effects, and full apparitions in human form (such as translucent apparitions) are the hardest effects to produce. 

Frederic Myers was the author of the monumental two-volume work Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, which you can read online here and here. 

Big Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 6)

 Below are some photos I previously took of large mysterious orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation. 

My 2018 photo below shows a large mysterious orb near a tower. 

My photo below from 2018 shows a large mysterious orb near a building in New York City. 

Another 2018 photo of mine  shows one orb much larger than another:

 Another 2018 photo I took shows a large orb near a building:

This 2018 photo I took shows a brighter and smaller orb apparently in front of a larger orb with a different color:

This 2018 photo I took shows a large mysterious orb:

This 2018 photo I took makes me wonder whether a sky orb found a nice place to rest. 

My photo below from 2017 shows what looks like a big large speeding orb near the Met Life building in Manhattan: