They Reported Their Orb Sightings to the FBI

 Last Friday the US government has just released "Release 3" in its trove of information related to UFOs and UAPs. The information can be found at the site https://www.war.gov/ufo/. I used the hard-to-notice Search tool on the site to see what this release had to say about orb sightings. 

On the page here, I get a way-too-redacted FBI memo from 2026. We can see that a witness reported to the FBI that he saw a "red sphere that was about one meter in diameter." He says that inside the sphere was what appeared to be a "white plasma sun" about the size of a basketball. We read "the orb UAP moved up and to their left," and that they then noticed "a second, identical orb." 

On the page here we have an FBI document (apparently from 2026) in which someone reports seeing first a "ball of light" the size of a basketball, and then a yellow "ball of light" the size of a beachball. Later we read of someone reporting "one orb going into the other orb before disappearing abruptly." 

On the page here, we have this text reporting an orb sighting

"In March 2022, at approximately 1920 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed two bright red luminous light sources hovering near the horizon at an estimated distance of 2,500 feet. Both luminous objects maintained generally stationary positions throughout the encounter. The lower light source appeared to rotate slowly relative to the upper light source, moving from an apparent 6 o’clock position to slightly beyond the apparent 9 o’clock position. The eyewitness did not hear any sounds from the light sources. The eyewitness captured this video using an iPhone 12 Pro at a location well known to them, which is sparsely populated.

The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by an eyewitness to the event. The FBI assesses the individual who reported this event as highly credible."

The page has a video you can watch, and that video shows two mysterious red orbs in the sky, hovering close to each other. 

There has been quite a bit of coverage in the mainstream press about these reports of orbs. The New York Post has an article entitled "Feds left baffled by sighting of ‘orbs launching other orbs’ in western US, new UFO files reveal." We have artist visualizations of what was reported by witnesses reporting mysterious colorful sky orbs.  Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has an article with a title of "A UAP Science Advisory Council to the U.S. Government: Keeping Our Eyes on the Orbs, Not the Audience!"

As If Some Invisible Finger Pressed the Button

 Below we see the control panel of my sturdy reliable General Electric dryer. When you press the circular button on the top left, the arrow button below starts blinking. Pressing that arrow button will start the dryer, causing it to run the number of minutes shown on the top right. 

Once the dryer is finished drying some clothes, the lights shown above all turn off, and the top of the dryer looks like this (dark, with nothing lit up):

Less than two hours ago I finished drying my clothes. I checked the dryer to see it was finished. The dryer looked like the photo directly above -- nothing was lit up, and the control panel was all dark. I opened the dryer to take out my clothes. While removing the clothes from the dryer, I noticed something very strange. The dryer's control panel was now lit up, looking like the top photo above. The only way that can happen is if someone were to press the circular power button you see at the top left of the first photo. But I had not touched the power button. 

Speculating about how this could have happened to a dryer while I was right in front of it the whole time, I thought that maybe one of the clothes I had removed had brushed against the power button, accidentally turning it on. I tested that hypothesis, by taking a clothes item, and repeatedly brushing it over the power button. This did not cause the power button to turn on. Evidently the power button requires a firm press, and cannot be turned on by some clothes item merely brushing across it. 

The event was as if some invisible finger had pressed the circular power button while I stood in front of the dryer. I can speculate about a symbolic meaning of this anomaly. When the dryer looks as it does in the top photo, there is a 46 showing, which is a "time remaining" indicator. Maybe the inexplicable event was meant to symbolize the idea of "46 remaining." That could mean 46 days left in my life, or 46 days until some other big event. 

I recorded on paper the main facts of the event above immediately after they happened, and my account above matches the hand-written account. 

Postscript: There was  similar weirdness two days later. While my TV was on showing a particular channel, my PlayStation machine mysteriously turned on, as I sat two meters away from the machine and its controller, not touching any TV remote. 

NBC Gets Excited Over "Red Orb" Footage

Last Friday the US government  just released "Release 3" in its trove of information related to UFOs and UAPs. The information can be found at the site https://www.war.gov/ufo/. I used the hard-to-notice Search tool on the site to see what this release had to say about orb sightings. 

 On the page here we read this account:

"In October 2024, at approximately 1851 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet. The luminous object resembled a 'plasma-like sphere' intermittently changing shape and luminosity. At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points."

The page has a video, but it is not a very impressive one.

On the page here, we read this account:

"In July 2025, at approximately 2100 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car upon returning home from work. The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the center of their backyard, at an estimated distance of 90 feet. The eyewitness exited their vehicle briefly before retrieving their phone to record the event. The spouse of the eyewitness came outside to assess the situation. The spouse also witnessed the light, describing it as a 'brilliant red sphere' about one meter in diameter. The center of the red sphere appeared to be a white plasma 'sun'  about the size of a basketball. The orb slowly rose and moved to the left, and both eyewitnesses observed a second, identical orb, hovering above the other orb."

The page has a video, and at about the ten-second mark we have  quite an impressive-looking sight of two bright red orbs in the sky. That part of the video is highlighted in the NBC News account below. The report from the very mainstream site makes repeated references to mysterious red orbs. 

Use the link here to see more than 100 photos I have taken of mysterious red orbs. 

At the US government web page here we have a government document which says this, mentioning red orb weirdness in its last two paragraphs:

Smoke Alarm Acts Spooky Just When I Think of Deceased Parents

 Last night something spooky happened, something I have never seen before. To explain the anomaly, I must first explain the behavior of my Google Nest smoke detector as I have observed it for every night prior to last night, for four years. 

The Google Nest smoke detector in my bedroom has a ring-shaped dim light and a motion detector. Whenever I get up from my bed to go to the bathroom, the dim light of the smoke detector lights up. When I return to my bed, the dim light of the smoke detector goes off within a few seconds of me returning to the bed. I presume that this is some feature designed to provide a little light for anyone trying to exit a room at night, when there is a fire. I think a better design might have been to only show the dim light when the smoke detector goes off.  The light of the smoke detector does not show during daytime, unless the alarm goes off. Below we see the Google Nest smoke detector. The first photo shows the dim light on, and the second photo shows the light off. 

Last night I awoke around 2:00, and began to have some vivid thoughts of my deceased parents. Just then I noticed something very strange, that I had never seen before. While lying in bed motionless, I noticed that the light on the smoke detector was still on for quite some time. Lying completely motionless in bed, I counted slowly from 1 to 120. During this whole two minutes, the smoke detector's light was on. I had never seen this behavior before from this smoke detector, not once in four years. Prior to today, its dim light always went off a few seconds after some motion caused it to turn on.  This Google Nest smoke detector is powered by a direct electrical current, and has no dependency on a battery. 

Wondering whether some insect might have caused this unprecedented behavior from the smoke detector, I turned on the regular light in the room, and looked for an insect. I saw none.  I then went back to sleep. 

Later around 4:00 AM I woke up again, and observed something similar. While lying motionless in bed, I noticed the anomaly that the smoke detector's light was on. I lay motionless in bed for five minutes, slowly counting from 1 to 300. During this whole time, the smoke detector's light was on. 

Again, I got up, turned on the regular light, and looked around for an insect that could conceivably have caused this unprecedented behavior from the smoke detector. I did not discover any such insect, and never felt or saw an insect that night. 

Why did the smoke detector act in this unprecedented way, which I have never seen in four previous years I have had this smoke detector in my bedroom? An interesting speculation is that the night's incidents were triggered by my vivid thoughts of my deceased parents. The unprecedented behavior of the smoke detector started while I was having such thoughts. See here for another spooky smoke alarm anomaly causing me to wonder whether some paranormal effect was involved. The 19th century provided very many reported anomalies (such as mysterious rap sounds and table levitations) in which people seemed to get signs from the Great Beyond. You can read about such anomalies here. 

I recorded on paper the main facts of the events above immediately after they happened, and my account above matches the hand-written account. 

It would make an interesting experiment for others with Google Nest smoke detectors to see whether they observe the same anomaly after having vivid thoughts of their deceased loved ones. 

Postscript: The next evening the Google Nest smoke detector in my bedroom returned to behaving as it had behaved for the past four years before this day, with its light always turning off a few seconds after the cessation of any recent motion nearby it. But there was on that evening the anomaly below, not looking like anything that showed up in the next photo of this window curtain from the exact same position.

Post-postscript: The next evening there was another strange, colorful line:

An Orange Orb

 Photo date: June 10, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Postscript: The next day I was walking outdoors, and saw an empty can rolling rather rapidly across the street, about two meters away from me. I could see  no people, moving cars or animals nearby, and the wind was only 9 mph on a sunny day. The can (holding no food) had a plastic cover, and looking through that I could see the words "Another Level." Was this a symbolic hint of some "other level" of  existence awaiting us after death?

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 17)

Below is Part 17 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

The photo below shows a mysterious transparent blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near the top of Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We can see a smaller orb inside the orb, and the right edges of the orbs align with each other exactly.  The image almost suggests the idea of a pregnant orb about to give birth to a child orb.

My photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see quite clearly the outer ring that often is visible in orbs. You can see many other examples here.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photos below show two mysterious blue orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see the letter "Y" inside the orb.

Today (June 9, 2026) I observed another of frequent spooky-seeming events around my living quarters. A bottle containing about eight ounces of detergent mysteriously fell into my sink, at a time many minutes after anyone had touched anything near the sink. The bottle had been a few inches from the side of the sink, and I had not touched the bottle in a long time.  The sink is not near any open window, and at the time there was no noticeable wind. 

Stunning Accounts of the Orb Seers (Part 3)

 The near-death experience site www.nderf.org now has a search feature allowing you to search for particular keywords in their collection of accounts.. When I tried using the search page with a search phrase of "orb" I get these statements on the third and fourth pages of results: 

• Joseph S.: "There were also souls leaving their human bodies (earthly death) and returning to the Light. I didn't see them actually entering or leaving their earthly bodies. I just knew this to be true. They appeared as orbs of light. The best way to describe it is blips on a radar screen. There were hundreds, if not thousands moving in a constant stream out of the Light and into the Light. I knew as I watched this that we existed as part of the Light before we were born as humans."
• Enrique: "I remember being so disappointed in myself for dying an addict. For a short time, I looked down at myself, lying in the tub with my eyes open. Suddenly, a white, almost blue, sphere/orb appeared. It seemed to speak to me telepathically, saying, 'It's okay, we can go now.'."
• Oliver V.: "I could see, in the distance, a tiny point of light that grew quickly into a glowing disc, or orb. It was emanating an incredible milky white color, yet was very brilliant at the same time, without hurting the eye. This light was radiating an indescribable reassuring calm. All my pain was gone and my only desire was to reach the light."
• David N.: "A bright orb-shaped sphere came from behind me on my right side, and then moved in front of me. The Spirit /Light changed its shape and appeared before me as a genderless Angel."
• Alex A: "During that flashback, I saw two radiant orbs in the sky from which numerous tall beings were rapidly descending and surrounding both our truck and the road in front of us all the way to the hospital."
• Michael G. "Then I saw this large, golden orb in front of me, suspended in the blue. It was close enough to touch, but I didn't. Its surface undulated, like the sea - rising and falling. Immediately, I thought, 'This is the sun,' but then remember saying, 'I am so sorry.' Instantly, without word, I was corrected. This 'orb' in front of me was no 'thing,' it was a personality."
• Carol L: "I see auras and orbs."
• Vicki P.: "I had a severe cold and my mom was 'greasing me up' with Vicks Vaporub. I began to hear a buzzing sound that grew louder and louder. The next thing I knew, I was going rapidly through a tunnel toward a light. I saw small, bright orbs of light accompanying me and I said to myself, 'Angels!' "
• Lou F.: "Structures and landscapes sprung from everywhere all in a crystalline state, all inhabited by these lesser light beings. Some were winged, most not. Some fully formed, others not. Yet even others that appeared only as glowing orbs of light and color, bounced, as would bubbles in a glass of carbonated water."