A Giant Purple Orb Seemingly Hovering Near a Building

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

On this Sunday night I photographed something very strange above a firehouse near where I live (a building that houses a fire truck).  I was using a new full-spectrum camera I bought, a Nikon Coolpix L28 that had been modified to let in more infrared light. The camera typically produces photos that have look a little more purple-colored or red-colored than ordinary photos.

Here is the first photo I took. Note the unusual thing in the top left corner. I used the "Auto-adjust colors" menu option in Irfanview on this photo and other photos in this series.

 Here is the second photo. This shows the same anomaly in the top left corner. In both cases, we seem to see a small circular or spherical object overlapping a much larger circular or spherical object.

Here is the third photo (the time on the photo is one minute later than the time on the first). This shows something in the top left corner just as in the previous two photos, except that now the smaller overlapping orb seems to be gone, and only the larger orb remains.

I tried taking pictures a minute later from the opposite side of the firehouse, but no such object appeared in my photos.  The purple object was not some problem with my camera, as it did not show up in photos taken a few minutes earlier and a minute later after the purple object was photographed.

The purple object could not have been a speck of dust. For one thing,  the www.airnow.gov website listed the New York City air quality on this night as "good," with a reading of 37 (well below the level of 50 needed for the air quality to be listed as "fair.")  So there wasn't much dust in the air, and the area where the photo was taken was not dusty. For another thing, advocates of the theory that dust in the air can cause photo orbs say that such a theory can only account for orbs that are about 10% or less of the original photo height (and when one actually tries photographing in very dusty air, you  don't see dust orbs larger than 5% of the original photo height). But this purple object is 33% of the original photo height -- way too big to be a particle of dust.  Third,  the wind speed on this night was 6 miles an hour. If I had photographed a large particle of dust near my camera in the first photo, it would have drifted away by the time I had photographed the third photo (dated one minute later). But the third photo shows the same orb in the same position.

In fact, when I returned 17 minutes later, I photographed what looked like the same purple orb, shown in a large fraction of the top left corner of this photo.

The previous few photos had showed no such orb. I rotated my body about 60 degrees, and took two more photos, but no such orb was shown.

Obviously, in this case dust is not a possible explanation. A particle of dust could not hovered in the air for 17 minutes while the wind was at 6 miles an hour.

Could my full-spectrum camera (which is more sensitive to heat) have captured a mass of warm air, perhaps? No, when the wind is 6 miles an hour, a mass of warm air will in seconds blend with the surrounding air, and no longer be a distinct shape. Furthermore, a mass of warm air would appear as something like a blob or a cloud, not a nice regular circle.

Could there have been something below this orb that might have been causing this orb to appear? No, the area below the orb consisted of nothing but a fenced-off railroad track of the Long Island Railroad (with the nearest station being more than a hundred meters away). 

What we seem to have here is a paranormal orb. At this page on the excellent "Orbs & More" site,  there are quite a few photos of very large red orbs that look like the orb I have photographed in this series of posts. My orb looks a little more purple-colored, but that may be merely because I was using a full-spectrum camera that tends to make things a little purple colored.