Blue Orbs

 Photo dates: February 23 and February 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

Mysterious Orange Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 1)

 Below is Part 1 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious orange orbs.

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

e see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Band-Baffled

Today I saw yet another case of a rubber band anomaly I have now seen more than 29 times. When the anomaly occurs I will suddenly see on the floor a rubber band, in some very noticeable position, with its appearance at such a spot being mysterious and unexplained (with me having no memory of having recently touched a rubber band). My strict policy is to always pick up small items from the floor as soon as I see them (items such as coins, rubber bands or pens); so finding unexpected rubber bands on the floor of a room where no one else was is baffling. 

Today at 10:05 PM I saw the unexpected rubber band between my TV stand and my refrigerator:

Now, as it happens I took a picture including this area only 19 minutes earlier, at 9:46 PM. Below is a cropped part of that picture, showing the same area as we see above, but no such rubber band:

How did the rubber band get on the floor? No one in the room touched any rubber bands between around 9:46 and 10:05. 

Below is a mysterious orb I photographed  indoors on this day. 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 13)

Below is Part 13 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

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

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

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed near an Apple showroom area of Grand Central Terminal.

The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We can only wonder why one was so much more brighter and colorful.

The photos below show two mysterious orbs that 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.

Mysterious Red Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 8)

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

My photo below shows a red orb above the MetLife building in midtown Manhattan.

My photo below shows several orbs floating near a building in New York City: a big purple orb, a red orb, a blue orb, and an orange orb.

My photo below shows a red orb floating mysterious above a building in New York City. 

My photo below shows a red orb and a purple orb floating mysteriously above a building in New York City.  

My photo below shows a red orb above a building in New York City.

A similar-looking orb showed up in another photo of mine:

My photo below shows a red striped orb above a building in New York City.

Was It Ghost Symbolism?

 I wear an eye shade while I sleep. Last night around midnight I tried to find the shade, and it was nowhere to be found. I thoroughly inspected all the sheets and a blanket and a pillow on the bed, but could not find the eye shade I normally keep near my pillow. I checked in the crack between the bed and the wall, but still could not find the eye shade. I was the only one sleeping in the room (my wife is on a trip). 

After searching for at least five minutes (and probably ten minutes) for the missing eye shade, looking all over the room, I gave up, and got a spare eye shade from my bed stand. During the night I made several trips to the bed stand shown in the diagram below. In the early morning (in early daylight) I looked out the window, to see whether there was snow accumulation. I then went back to bed and got more sleep. 

Finally my alarm clock went off, and I arose. I was very surprised to then discover the missing eye shade, which was in about the most noticeable position it could be: on the floor, at the foot of the bed. This was not my replacement eye shade, which I could see was still on the bed, near the pillow.  

We see below the layout of the room, and where I found the eye shade in the morning, marked by the X mark. When I get up at night, the room is dimly lit by a Google Nest smoke detector which has a motion detector and a dim light that activates when you walk around in the darkness. 

I realized there may be some symbolic significance to the spooky event involving the eye shade. "Shade" was a term used in nineteenth century English to mean "ghost or disembodied spirit." And in the English language "eye" sounds just like "I." So an eye shade may symbolize the phrase "I shade," which may be equivalent to "I ghost" or "I disembodied spirit" or "I am a ghost" or "I am a disembodied spirit."  

Below we see how the Merriam-Webster dictionary has "a disembodied spirit: ghost" as one of its definitions of "shade."

The event described here is similar to an equally spooky event involving an eye shade, one I describe here. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed on this day. 

Was That My Valentine's Day "Kiss"?

 Today I was eating pasta alone in the house where I live, with the lights shown below on. At 8:00 PM the lights mysteriously turned off, and then turned back on a second or two later.  This event occurring on Valentine's Day may be no coincidence. Valentine's Day is a day associated with gestures of love. Maybe the event was some gesture of love from some mysterious spirit power. 

Whatever it was, it seemed to involve the whole house. Outside of the kitchen I have one of those old-fashioned alarm clocks, and the clock lost its set time (and started blinking) at 8:00 PM. But a check of Con Edison's power outage map shows no reports of power outages in my neighborhood.