Everything Was Blurred Except the Orb

Photo date: May 23, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York,  while my camera was accidentally moving in a kind of sudden jerk. All of the details of the station have that kind of motion blur that you might get when taking a picture while your camera is moving in a sudden jerk.  But we see one object that is not blurred: a mysterious orb floating in the station. It's as if the orb is somehow defying the laws of optics.  I have seen this effect in three previous photos, shown here.

This rather reminds me of the recent Game of Thrones episode in which everyone gets burned up in an all-consuming building fire, except for the magical heroine, who calmly walks right through the fire and emerges from the building unscathed.  We rather seem to see the same kind of "defiance of the natural rules" thing going on here with this orb.