The Washington Post recently said this about flying orbs: "In some cases, pilots—many of whom are engineers and academy graduates—claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation." This is probably a reference to sightings in recent years. It is known that quite a few World War II pilots reported mysterious balls of light near their planes. They were called "foo fighters." A web page says, "Toward the end of World War II pilots began reporting seeing UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects - in the shape of strange glowing balls flying around their aircraft at night."
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
A Fast Orb
Photo date: April 30, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below one of 600+ mysterious speeding orbs I have photographed.
We see below one of 600+ mysterious speeding orbs I have photographed.
Friday, April 26, 2019
Domestic Velocity
Photo date: April 25, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious speeding orb I photographed indoors.
Near the same artificial plant, we see another fast-looking orb below:
The photo below shows a mysterious speeding orb I photographed indoors.
Near the same artificial plant, we see another fast-looking orb below:
Thursday, April 25, 2019
A Striped Green Orb
Photo date: April 24, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Nice Ledge for an Orb to Rest
Photo date: April 24, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Orb Above "the Orb"
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I finally finished playing the game Dragon Age: Inquisition, reaching the final credit sequence. It's a great game, but don't order it for an X-box unless you have a hard drive. Near the end of the game one of the characters referred to an orb, and the screen showed this caption: "The Orb." At that very moment, I photographed an orb above the TV screen.
I finally finished playing the game Dragon Age: Inquisition, reaching the final credit sequence. It's a great game, but don't order it for an X-box unless you have a hard drive. Near the end of the game one of the characters referred to an orb, and the screen showed this caption: "The Orb." At that very moment, I photographed an orb above the TV screen.
Friday, April 19, 2019
Wet and Weird
Photo date: April 16, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary water drops falling against a dark background.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary water drops falling against a dark background.
A Purple Sky Orb
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed near a building.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed near a building.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Spooked Spire
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
Baffling "Buttons"
Photo date: April 16, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only pure, clean water drops falling against a dark background.
I took the photo below while photographing only pure, clean water drops falling against a dark background.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
When the "Game of Thrones" Marathon Got Spookier
This evening I was watching the final hours of HBO's "Game of Thrones" marathon (leading up to the new season premiere) while alone in my living room. It's a show that has some spooky elements: magic, dragons, walking corpses, paranormal abilities, and so forth. I had just finished watching with great interest the very exciting grand climax of one episode in which the flying dragons help to save Jon Snow from zombies, and he is united with Daenerys Targaryen. The next episode had just started. I got up to close a window a few meters away, seeing a "Game of Thrones" character on the TV screen as I walked to the window. After closing the window, I immediately noticed the TV had changed from channel 511 to channel 100. How could this have happened while I was meters away from the TV remote? There is an "On Demand" button on the remote, but that switches to channel 1000, not channel 100. No one else was in the room.
Something very similar happened on Friday. I was watching "Star Trek: Enterprise" on channel 151, when I got up to do something in another room for a few seconds. Coming back to the living room (where no one else was), the TV channel had switched to channel 10, a channel I never watch.
These are merely the latest in a long series of inexplicable events around the home which seem to resemble mysterious manifestations.
Something very similar happened on Friday. I was watching "Star Trek: Enterprise" on channel 151, when I got up to do something in another room for a few seconds. Coming back to the living room (where no one else was), the TV channel had switched to channel 10, a channel I never watch.
These are merely the latest in a long series of inexplicable events around the home which seem to resemble mysterious manifestations.
A Speeding Sky Stripe
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Green Orb in the Station
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a green orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. To see 195 other mysterious green orbs, see this series of posts.
The photo below shows a green orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. To see 195 other mysterious green orbs, see this series of posts.
Anomalous Alignments
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. To see 300+ other cases of orbs aligning to the edges of structures, see this series of posts.
The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. To see 300+ other cases of orbs aligning to the edges of structures, see this series of posts.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Green Orb Near the Orb Book
Photo date: April 11, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. It is very close to the book "Orbs" by Klaus Heinemann, PhD and Gundi Heinemann. Klaus has a physics PhD, and you can read an article of his about orbs here.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Stars, Stripes and Something
Photo date: April 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Diverse Hues of the Orbs
Below we see some colorful orbs I recently photographed indoors. The one at the top left has an interesting variation in its transparency: the right half is transparent, but the left half is not.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
A Striped Speeding Orb
Photo date: April 3, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky. See here for 19 other photos of striped speeding orbs.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky. See here for 19 other photos of striped speeding orbs.
There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Azure Anomaly
Photo date: April 1, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Enigmatic Electricity
Over the past few years I have seen well over 60 cases of electrical or electronic devices mysteriously changing their state. This has included 18 cases of the flashlight at the back of my Samsung tablet turning on mysteriously when the tablet was turned off, 15 cases of an electric toothbrush turning on by itself, 10 cases of a sound machine turning off by itself or changing its channel, 9 cases of a Samsung tablet turning off by itself, three cases of lamps turning on by themselves, and more than 10 cases of a TV mysteriously changing its state (such as switching to a new channel when I hadn't touched the remote). Today I saw three more examples in the same vein.
I was at a laundromat, and chose "Hot" as my setting for 3 dryers, as I always do. I sat down about 15 feet from the dryers, just staring into space as I thought. Ten minutes later I double-checked the dryers to make sure they were all on "Hot." I found that two of the three dryers I was using had now switched to the "Delicates" setting, one I never have chosen in my life. While one of these two dryers was out of my sight (blocked by a pillar), the other dryer that had switched to "Delicates" was in my sight for the whole 10 minutes, and I saw no one changing the setting. The dryer control panel is below. If you don't choose a heat setting, this type of dryer will always use "Medium."
Just after posting the first version of this post, I looked up at my TV and saw that my TV program had gone, and that the TV had mysteriously changed to the 2 channel, which produces the look below:
When this switch occurred, I wasn't touching any TV remote. The remotes were both half a meter to my left (below is a photo I took of the state the remotes were in at this time). You can only get the screen above if you press the "2" button on the black remote.
Postscript: Something similar happened on April 6, 2019. I was watching a movie on TV, and suddenly I am surprised to see the blank "Video 2 Game" screen on my TV. The only controller I can use to switch the TV to this "Video 2 Game" was the black controller, which was an arm's length away from me when this switch occurred. For me to switch the TV to "Video 2 Game" requires a press of two different buttons on the remote: (1) a press of the Input button; (2) a press of the + button underneath the Favorites button.
On two separate trips to the laundromat I mentioned above, I confirmed there was no machine issue causing the dryers to switch settings from "High" to "Delicate." They showed no sign of malfunction on those trips.
I was at a laundromat, and chose "Hot" as my setting for 3 dryers, as I always do. I sat down about 15 feet from the dryers, just staring into space as I thought. Ten minutes later I double-checked the dryers to make sure they were all on "Hot." I found that two of the three dryers I was using had now switched to the "Delicates" setting, one I never have chosen in my life. While one of these two dryers was out of my sight (blocked by a pillar), the other dryer that had switched to "Delicates" was in my sight for the whole 10 minutes, and I saw no one changing the setting. The dryer control panel is below. If you don't choose a heat setting, this type of dryer will always use "Medium."
Just after posting the first version of this post, I looked up at my TV and saw that my TV program had gone, and that the TV had mysteriously changed to the 2 channel, which produces the look below:
When this switch occurred, I wasn't touching any TV remote. The remotes were both half a meter to my left (below is a photo I took of the state the remotes were in at this time). You can only get the screen above if you press the "2" button on the black remote.
Postscript: Something similar happened on April 6, 2019. I was watching a movie on TV, and suddenly I am surprised to see the blank "Video 2 Game" screen on my TV. The only controller I can use to switch the TV to this "Video 2 Game" was the black controller, which was an arm's length away from me when this switch occurred. For me to switch the TV to "Video 2 Game" requires a press of two different buttons on the remote: (1) a press of the Input button; (2) a press of the + button underneath the Favorites button.
On two separate trips to the laundromat I mentioned above, I confirmed there was no machine issue causing the dryers to switch settings from "High" to "Delicate." They showed no sign of malfunction on those trips.
Strange Sidekick
Photo date: April 1, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Spooky Switch
Photo date:April 1, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a light switch.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a light switch.
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