Orbs Punctuate the Sky With Paranormal Pizazz

Photo date: August 3, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below taken at 9:53 shows Grand Central Station, the Met Life Building, and the Chrysler Building in New York City. Notice the mysterious orb that "crowns" the spire of the Chrysler Building.

To test whether I could be photographing particles of dust in front of me, my next photograph (a few seconds later, also at 9:53) was of a piece of cardboard at arm's length. As always, this cardboard test showed no orbs in front of the cardboard. (You can see my posts labeled "cardboard test" to see 18 other times when this test showed no orbs in front of the cardboard, all taken at times when I was photographing orbs in the sky.)

At 10:02 I took the photo below, which showed an extremely dense swarm of orbs.

At 10:03 I  took the photo below, which also showed an extremely dense swarm of orbs.

In the next photo (also taken at 10:03) I tried the cardboard test again, and as always, the photo showed no orbs in front of the cardboard.

We have in this series of photos several very strong indications that these mysterious orbs are absolutely not any particles near the camera such as dust. The first indication is that both of the cardboard tests failed to show any orbs in front of the cardboard. The second indication is that in all three photographs showing orbs, we see no orbs in front of the building at bottom.  If I had been photographing natural particles very near the camera, such particles would have randomly distributed around the photo area. Instead, we see a very strong "vertical bias" in which the orbs are almost exclusively located in the upper two-thirds of the photo.  Exactly this same "vertical bias" can be seen in the two photos shown in this post, taken at the same place and time.

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 41. 

Postscript: You might agree that it's clear that we're not seeing here dust near the camera, but then argue: maybe it's dust far away from the camera.  But that doesn't work. The particles in atmospheric dust are never larger than 1 millimeter (even in a choking dust storm), and are normally only about 1 micron (a thousandth of a millimeter). So a dust particle more than a meter from the camera could not possibly cause an orb in a photo, as it would block way too small a fraction of the photo area. Imagine photographing a speck the size of the period at the end of this sentence, at a distance of a meter, and imagine how big that speck is going to be in your photo. Then imagine photographing the same speck at a distance of 10 meters, and think of how big that speck is going to appear in your photo.  This illustrates the point that any idea of distant dust particles causing orbs in photos is completely unfeasible.