Saturday, January 24, 2015

Two Orange Orbs, One Making a Right Angle Turn

Photo date: October 28, 2014. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Although it may look like three different orange orbs overlapping, this indoor photo of a wall more likely shows (beside a single orb on the right) a single orange orb on the left, one that is making a dramatically sharp right-angle turn. A photo like this cannot at all be explained as being a photo of an insect. No insect ever makes a change in direction as sharp as we see here. Furthermore, the photo was taken indoors in a place where no flying insects had been observed during the past two months. 

Since the camera had a shutter speed of 1/2000 of an second, a photo like this indicates very rapid movement -- movement greater than 100 miles an hour. The top speed of houseflies, by comparison, is only 5 miles an hour.

The orb on the right is an apparently a different orb with the same color. The orbs had the apparent sizes of basketballs.

moving air orb

Dust level: 330/2 (Fair). Nearby reflective surfaces: none. The left orb was about 8% as wide as the full picture. No orbs shown in photos taken at same location from same angle soon before and soon after this photo was taken, which argues against any dust explanation. There was no possibility of a hair in front of the camera lens, because the photo was made by someone with very short hair.  No artificial light was involved in the photo area except the camera flash.

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