Orb Speeds One Way, the Wind Blows Another Way

Photo date: October 19, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken at the Empire State Building in New York. We see in the sky what looks like a mysterious orb speeding towards the left of the photo, but we can see from the flag that the wind was blowing in the opposite direction.  That pretty much proves we are not looking at some dust particle being blown by the wind.

There was no rain, fog, mist or precipitation on this windy night with very clean air. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 25.