Was This His Guardian Angel?

Photo date: December 30, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see a man who is probably fiddling with his smartphone, oblivious to the strange blue reality floating nearby.

Purple Orb Tops the Line of 4 Sky Orbs

Photo date: December 29, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken just after I photographed the ghostly-looking mist shown here.  We see a line of 4 orbs.

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.

The Top 10 Moving Orbs of 2015

Below are what you might call the top 10 moving orbs that I photographed in 2015. Follow the links to see larger photographs which these photos were part of.

Here is one from December 2, described here: 

Here is one from November 19th, which moves in a spoon-shaped motion, as described here:

Here is one from October 15th, an orb making a sharp turn, as described here:

Here from September 28 is a blue orb that seems to make a sharp U-turn, as described here:

Here from July 9 is an orb that seems to move in a spectacular S-shaped motion, as described here:

Here from May 24th is an orb that seems to make a very sharp turn, as described here:

Here from May 21 is an orb making the most dramatic motion described here:

Here is orb motion that dramatically shows the "string of pearls" effect, as described here:

Here from November 5 is an extremely dramatic pink moving orb, as described here:

And finally, from December 28, we have this dramatically zig-zagging pink orb, as described here:

All of these orbs were photographed entirely away from the edge of the photo (including the July 9th one, as you can see by opening the link I gave). So none of these photos can be explained as camera straps or the photographer's hair (my hair is short). None of the photos were taken through glass, so none can be reflections upon a glass. There were no insects observed when any of these photos were taken.

See here for lots of other photos of moving orbs, and also a discussion of why all attempts to explain these things are unworkable.  This site has 259 photos of orbs that seem to be moving fast,  and many other photographers have similar photos, as you can see by doing a Google image search for "moving orbs."

Paranormal Precise Positioning?

Photo date: December 30, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see a blue orb that seems to be perfectly positioned, in two different ways. For one thing, the orb is atop a corner information window that is at the intersection of two sweeping architectural lines in the station. For another thing, the orb seems to be resting on the exact top of the roof of the information desk.  It's a good spot to do some serious people watching.

The photos of this spot I took immediately before and after this photo showed no such blue orb.

And while I am mentioning precise positioning, I should also include this photo from the same day, showing a bright blue orb exactly positioned on the top of a huge arch at the station (see here for two more examples of this). You might think this blue orb is a feature of the architecture, but it appeared only in this photo.

The 10th and 11th Wreath-Tagging Mystery Orbs This Year

 Photo date: December 30, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below were taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York, where I have nine previous times this year photographed mysterious floating orbs next to Christmas wreaths (as shown in this series of posts).

Here is the 10th example of a wreath-tagging orb:

 Here is the 11th example of a wreath-tagging orb:

Confounding Christmas Congruence

Photo date: December 25, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background. We see some of the strange things I call orb veils, which appear in a congruent stack, as they often do (as shown here).  They appeared with a size of about 4 inches.

Another photo from the same day showed something similar, but brighter.

The Ghostly Mist Looked Like Two Spooky "Creature Heads"

Photo date: December 29, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a building in New York City that I have often photographed. This time there appeared a weird anomaly like none I have seen at this spot.  A ghostly mist seemed to appear in front of the building, and in that mist we seem to see two creature-like forms (rather like dragon heads).

 The phenomenon of unexplained plasma-like clouds photographed at ground level is visually documented at this site, at this site, in Mya Gleny's site here,  in the book "The Orb Project" by Miceal Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D, and in the book "Beyond Photography: Encounters with Orbs, Angels and Light-Forms," by  Katie Hall and John Pickering. The photo discussed here is consistent with these reports.  These anomalies are sometimes called "light forms" or "plasma clouds," although a Google image search for "ghostly mist" or "ecto-mist" will show the most examples.

It is rare for me to get this type of photo, but you can see several similar photos I have taken by looking at this series of posts.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.  The temperature was 41 degrees -- not cold enough for your breath to produce such an anomaly (unless you are blowing hard, which I certainly did not do).  I saw no such anomaly in many other photos I took that night.  I could not see any visible mist or smoke when I took this photo, and did not smell anything.  The previous photo and the next photo I took (taken within a few seconds of this one) showed no anomaly like this-- but the next photo showed 4 orbs in a line. I will publish that photo tomorrow. 

The Ninth Wreath-Tagging Mystery Orb This Year

Photo date: December 7, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see another example of what I have photographed eight times previously this year (as shown in this series of posts): a mysterious orb that seems to be touching a Christmas wreath.

Reappearance of the Bright "One-Eyed" Orb at Previous Hangout?

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York. The photo shows a bright orb near the top.

A closeup of the orb seems to show an eye-like feature on the right.

This orb looks almost identical to the orb that I photographed a few days earlier, as described in this post. Here is that orb.

We can only wonder whether this is exactly the same orb reappearing.

Night of the Moving Orb U-Turns

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below were taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.The first photo seems to show a moving orb making a U-turn.

Another photo from the same night seemed to show the same thing -- an orb turning back on itself in a U-turn.

See here for seven other examples of orbs that seem to make U-turns, some of which are considerably more dramatic than these two examples.

Wet and Very Puzzling

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background.  Within a drip of water, we seem to four orb faces, I think the one on the bottom is cutest.

See here for hundreds of similar photos.

Day of the Mysterious Orb Veils

Photo date: December 10, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below were taken while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background.  On this day I photographed four of the strange objects I call orb veils.

Here is the first one, showing a blue orb veil. These things are usually whitish, often orange, occasionally blue and very rarely red.

Below is another one, which had the more common orange color. This one had an apparent height of about 7 inches.

Here is another one showing what looks like a stack of three congruent orb veils.

Here is one more, which also shows what looks a congruent stack of orb veils.

Below is a closeup of part of the photo above. We see three of the objects I call orb crescents: one red, one blue, and one white.

Bright Pink Moving Orb Zig-Zags Dramatically

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York, and is one of the most dramatic moving orb photos I have ever taken.

We see five bright orb shapes that all are the same size and color.  What the camera seems to have captured is an undulating zig-zag motion of a single pink orb speeding very fast.

Below is a closeup. There is a hazy pink blur, a sign of very fast motion. The object seems to make not just one change in direction, but two changes of direction. Neither dust nor birds nor insects ever make this kind of undulating zig-zag motion in such a short space.

 What we see here is the same undulating orb motion that I have photographed in these 21 photos, and the same "string of pearls" effect I have photographed in these 24 photos.  See here for other cases of speeding pink orbs.

Below is the full original photo, which has been uploaded directly from the camera. Right-click to open the photo in a separate tab, to see it at higher resolution.

A photo such as this is absolutely inexplicable through any natural explanation known to us. No one ever gets a photo like this through any natural phenomenon known to man.

A skeptic might try to explain this as a coincidental arrangement of pink dust particles (which would be ridiculous, since dust particles aren't pink). Let's consider the chance of that happening. Once you had 1 pink orb in what looks like a chain of 5 orbs, you would then need to have 4 matches, so that a "string of pearls" effect was created. Each of these matches occurring in the right place (at the end of the "string") would have a probability of only about 1 in 1000 (given the large photo area). The chance of any new "pearl" being added to the "string of pearls" would be less than 1 in 100,000, since you would also need to have not just that "1 in 1000" position match but also an exact match of size and color to add a new "pearl" to the "string of pearls." So the total chance of this "pink string of pearls" being created by a random combination of dust particles would be something like 1 in 100,000 to the fourth power,  which would be about 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.  It also wouldn't work to imagine a super-fast pink dust particle, because indoor dust particles only move at the very slow pace of 2 miles per hour, and don't make sharp zig-zag motions.

I have an extremely wide variety of orb photos on this site, but I would be quite happy to defend the proposition that orbs are a paranormal phenomenon that we can't explain through anything we understand, by using only the photo here as evidence.

Postscript: I may note that after taking this photo I took hundreds of other photos with this camera on this night, and this was the only one showing such an anomaly. The photo was taken with a Sony camera that has performed flawlessly for almost a year. When this particular camera photographs someone's flash camera firing, it produces a single-ball bluish-white look that looks nothing like what this photo shows. An example is below. Such a thing doesn't even look like the blue orbs I photograph, as you see lots of rays radiating outward (which I don't see in the blue orbs I photograph at this location).  

Purple-Green Orb Floats Mysteriously

Photo date: December 5, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a strange purple-green orb floating next to the steeple of one of the oldest churches in New York City.  The orb is a strange mottled mixture of purple and green streaks, a color combination I have twice previously photographed in orbs (as shown here).

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.

5 More Orbs Haunt the "Holiday Fair" Signs

In this previous post I showed five orb appearances at the word "Holiday" in some signs they have temporarily put up at Grand Central Station in New York.

Since making that post I have noticed that orbs continue to hang around these signs.  Here is one from December 26, 2015.

Here is another from December 24, 2015.

 Another from the same day:

Another from December 23, 2015:

Another from December 17, 2015:

Was It Having Fun Sliding Down the Banister?

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see a big blue orb on a stairway.  It kind of looks like some kid having fun sliding down a banister.

Dark Face Inside the Orb Crescent?

Photo date: December 28, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background. We see some of the strange objects I call orb crescents.

Below is a closeup of one of the crescents. We seem to see a dark face inside the crescent, the face of a figure looking to the left.

Colorful Orb Veil Is Orange, Green and Purple

Photo date: December 25, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background. We see one of the strange objects I call orb veils, 18 types of which are shown here. This one is an unusually colorful one, having a blend of three colors.

Note the two different right angles. We also some of the strange objects I call orb crescents.

18 Types of Orb Veils

Having often photographed a mysterious anomaly I call orb veils, I have created the composite photo below showing different types of the objects.  The composite photo is a large 2542 by 1187 photo, and to see it at anything close to its original resolution, you will need to click on the image to open it in a separate browser tab. (If you are interested in the details, I suggest the additional step of copying the image from that tab into a photo editor that allows you to zoom in.)

The descriptions are pretty self-explanatory, except for "reappearing," which refers to this type of orb veil. 

The orb veils shown here were each individually shown in previous posts, and to find the full original photo you can browse through this series of posts.  These objects had an average apparent size of about 4 inches.

The photo below (from December 25, 2015) is a new photo of an orb veil. Using the categories listed above, this would probably be classified as a "spiky" orb veil.

For a discussion of the characteristics of these orb veils, along with a discussion of the inadequacy of attempts to explain them, see this post.

Gentle Smile of a Moving Orb?

Photo date: December 24, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see a blue orb that seems to be speeding past a crowd.

Below is a closeup of the orb (with the "Gamma correction" slightly reduced).  We see what looks like a face with two eyes and a gentle smile.