100+ Orb "Comet Tails" All Pointing in the Same Direction

Photo date: September 16, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in front of a building in New York City. We see a dense swarm of orbs. Right click to see the photo at its full resolution.

If you right click on this photo and open it in a separate tab or window, and then load the photo in a photo viewer allowing you to zoom in, you will discover something very unusual. The photo shows more than 100 objects that have "comet tails." You can see this very clearly if you use your photo editor to make a negative version of this image.

What is remarkable is that all of these many "orb comet tails" are all pointing in the same direction. It is as if the photo has captured a great body of objects all moving in a south-westerly direction.

Below is a closeup of part of the photo (I used the IrfanView "Auto-adjust colors" menu option on the closeup).  You can see here two larger orbs with "comet tails." But if you look closely you can also see many other much smaller objects (or more distant objects?) that also seem to have "comet tails."  They all seem to be moving in the same south-westerly direction.

The top photo was taken at 10:44 PM. The next photo was the photo below, also taken at 10:44 PM. I photographed a piece of cardboard at arm's length to see whether my previous photo might have been showing particles near the camera. As always, this "cardboard test" was negative, showing no orbs in front of the cardboard -- thereby indicating that the previous photo does not show particles such as dust near the camera.

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.  The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "moderate," with a rating of 52 that was almost good enough to qualify as "good."  I noticed nothing unusual nearby, and did not see a single insect on this night.

A photo similar to the top photo (and one that is even more dramatic) can be seen here on  Yvonne Scouller's site. That photo also shows a dense swarm of moving orbs, with larger moving orbs outnumbered by smaller moving orbs.