Were Orbs Over Fukushima Spirit Orbs?

Netflix has a new four-part series called "Encounters," dealing with sightings of the paranormal. Episode 4 is entitled "Lights Over Fukushima." At about the 28:40 mark, we have an interview with one of the workers involved in the cleanup of the 2011  tsunami in Japan that knocked out the Fukushima nuclear power plant.  He says this:

 "When we were searching for people in the aftermath, usually when we checked cars, we would see these bright blue-white lights kind of hovering above a spot like this. They seemed to be floating over where someone had died....In Japanese folklore there's something called a hitodama, it's like a fireball or a bright ball of light that floats in the air. At the time I saw a number of them out there. It's believed that when a person dies, their soul ascends to heaven as a hitodama, a fiery ball of light. I find it hard to believe that, in the aftermath of catastrophes like these, when so many lives are lost,  most people would see these balls of light as UFOs.  I think most of us would interpret these things as hitodama, the lingering presence of the human soul."

A web page tells us this about such hitodama:

"Appearance: Hitodama are the visible souls of humans detached from their host bodies. They appear as red, orange, or blue-white orbs, and float about slowly not too far from the ground.

Behavior: On warm summer nights, these strange, glowing orbs can be seen floating around graveyards, funeral parlors, or the houses where people have recently died. Most often they are seen just before or after the moment of death, when the soul leaves the body to return to the ether. It is most common to see them at night, though they occasionally appear during the daytime. Rarely, hitodama materialize when a person loses consciousness, floating outside of the body, only to return when the person regains consciousness."

Ghostly Synchronicity

In the bathroom next to where I sleep is a modern-type GFCI outlet that normally shows a small green light, except when the circuit is broken.  As reported in the post here, more than 20 times during the past year I have seen the green light in this outlet mysteriously go off for a second or two before turning back on, even though no physical action of mine happened that might cause this.  Last night this occurred again, with some interesting synchronicity.  At the very instant that I was thinking to myself the word "ghosting," within two seconds the light went off and went back on.  At the time I was thinking in my mind a short sentence referring to "ghosting" in the sense of ignoring someone's communication. 

A Blue Orb

 Photo date: September 20, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see a mysterious blue orb I photographed indoors, near a TV set that was turned off.  Look hard near the center and you may faintly see what looks like two eyes. 

Enigmatic Edge

 Photo date: September 16, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Some of My Best Orb Photos (Part 3)

In two previous retrospective posts (here and here) I showed some of the best photos I took prior to November 2015. Starting with such a time, I will now show some of my best orb photos from late 2015. 

I took the photo below in Grand Central Terminal in New York on December 28, 2015. We see what looks like a bright pink orb dramatically speeding in a zig-zag fashion.

I took the photo below in Grand Central Terminal in New York on November 26, 2015.  On this Thanksgiving day a big orb appeared.

On this day I also photographed the bright blue orb below, which was floating directly above the word "Holiday" in a sign. It's almost as if the orb was suggesting, "Yes, I understand that today is a holiday."

The photo below from November 28, 2015 shows an orb that appeared indoors.  We seem to see a face. Such a photo is not very rare for me, as you can see from this series of 600+ photos I have taken showing face-like features in mysterious orbs (keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right to see them all).

I took the photo below in Grand Central Terminal in New York on December 30, 2015.  We see a man who seems near a blue orb. 

I took the photo below on December 29, 2015.  We see a line of 4 orbs.

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation when I photographed on this night. 

I took the photo below on December 26, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal. We see a mysterious blue orb near a Christmas wreath. 

I took the photo below at the same place on December 23, 2015. We may wonder whether the blue orb on the right was attracted to the crowd of people.

 

I took the photo below in Grand Central Terminal in New York on December 24, 2015.  We see a blue orb that seems to be positioned at the tip of a man's head. Was the orb reading his mind?

I took the photo below on December 24, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal. We may ask: was the blue orb trying to read the woman's smartphone?

I took this photo on December 23, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see two mysterious blue orbs.

At this time I was continuing to photograph falling water drops, and I continued to get inexplicable effects very many times. This photo I took on December 11, 2015 shows a baffling stream of 25 striped orbs, even though only clean, pure falling water was being photographed. 

A photo I took on December 17, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal rather looked like a mysterious orb with legs:

Another photo on the same day showed the same "orb with legs" effect:

I took the photo below on December 14, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see a mysterious blue orb near the US flag. 

I took the photo below in Grand Central Terminal on December 10, 2015.  We see a large bright orb. (This looks quite different from how a camera flash looks when I happen to photograph it with this camera.)

Around this time there was a sign hanging in the station, one with the word "Holiday." I took the photo below on November 14, 2015, and it shows a blue orb floating right underneath the word "Holiday" in the sign.

The next photo is from December 11, 2015, and also shows a blue orb at the word "Holiday" in the sign.

On December 11, 2015 in Grand Central Terminal there was this big blue orb:

On the same day and place I got the blue orb below:

This orb I photographed on December 4, 2015 at Grand Central Terminal seemed to upstage the Christmas wreath. 

This one from December 8, 2015 looked like some rooftop hazard, but was really one of the many pink sky orbs I have photographed (the photo occurring on a dry clear night). 

This one from November 26, 2015 was a bright orb at Grand Central Terminal in New York. 

This takes me through the year 2015 in this highlight retrospective series. The next installment in the series will show my best photos from 2016. 

Today's NASA UAP/UFO Report Reads Like Very Lazy Work

In a post on one of my two other blog sites (sites you can read here and here), I complained about the scrambled reasoning and lazy-sounding efforts that astronomers produce when they write about UFOs.  I wrote this:

"It seems that when mainstream scientists other than parapsychologists write about the paranormal, they usually give us their laziest efforts, failing to be diligent in either scholarship or logic. It's as if their rule was: when writing about the paranormal, just 'phone it in.' "

Today NASA released a long-awaited report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, which is a new name for phenomena such as UFOs.  Written by a panel that included five astronomers and someone called a "telescope scientist," we have a report that reads like a very lazy effort, a "phone it in" job.  It's the kind of report we might expect from a panel dominated by astronomers, who tend to give us their laziest efforts when dealing with UFOs and anomalous mysterious phenomena. 

The report makes no attempt to classify sightings of UFOs or UAPs. It tells us nothing about the speed or altitude or colors or shape of UFO/UAP sightings in general. The only UFO sighting the report attempts to analyze in detail is the "Go-Fast" UFO. The report attempts to use trigonometry and speculative assumptions to persuade us that the "Go-Fast" UFO was not moving very fast.  

No other UFO or UAP sightings are discussed in detail. Other than just mentioning one mysterious orb photographed, the report makes no mention of any of the mysterious orbs that were mentioned in the August hearing before the US Congress, dramatic and hard-to-explain references I summarize in my post here. The authors write as if they had no interest in analyzing UFO/UAP characteristics and patterns.  The authors fill up their report with lots of "we could do this and that in the future" talk. 

This is the kind of "give us no insight" effort we might expect from some panel that included no scholars of the paranormal.  Reading like a mere "going through the motions" affair, the report reads just exactly like what we might expect if the authors had no interest in the topic of unidentified sky phenomena, and felt like they couldn't be bothered to study it in a serious and thorough manner.  

Postscript: A Daily Mail story says "The climate scientist who helped supply the DailyMail.com with the ERA5 wind data described NASA's explanation of the GOFAST video as 'low-effort' and 'not rigorous.' "

From the Front Page of the New US Government UFO Web Site

 Below is what we see on the front page of the new web site of the  US government's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). I have circled two parts.  UAP stands for "Unidentified Anomalous  Phenomena." 

Wow, it looks they are getting lots of orb reports, many of them reports of translucent orbs.  I wonder: do many such orbs look something like the 500+ translucent orbs I have photographed/? You can see them all here by scrolling down and continuing to press Older Posts at the bottom right. 

When astronomers talk about UFOs they tend to give us their laziest efforts. One I know keeps repeating the claim that UFOs are pretty much only seen in the US, a kind of "those Americans are so silly" narrative. The UFO hotspot map above shows us such an idea is not true. 

"They Went On to Infinitely Grander Things"

Last night I dreamed I was at an office meeting, and I mentioned that I had worked for a company that suffered  the most horrible loss of its staff in the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001. Using a very striking phrase in the dream, I said, "They went on to infinitely grander things." The phrase may have referred to the dead of this company reaching some exalted state in the afterlife.  The dream was one of 400+ dreams I have had that seemed to refer to life after death. 

In the same dream I had a recurrence of a story line that I have had quite a few times in dreams: the idea that I had long been working at a job (for at least months) without ever being paid.  Usually there's a thought of "I've got to get this straightened out," but in this dream I talked to some company official who said the situation would be corrected   I have a very optimistic speculative interpretation of this recurring dream: the idea that the job represents earthly life, and that the dream symbolizes some reality that each good person is accruing a great reward for each year of earthly life that he lives, and that the reward will be paid in an afterlife, with the reward perhaps proportional to the length and difficulty of your earthly life.

At the end of the dream I took an elevator from the top of an office tower, to leave work. In the tower's lobby I found myself holding a shovel, and kind of said, "Silly me, I must return this to my high office," getting back in the elevator to go back up. The descent down may symbolize some health problem leading to death, and the shovel (used to dig graves) may represent death. The elevator ascent back up to the tower top may represent the ascent of the soul to some heavenly realm after death.  

Colorful Orbs

 We see below some colorful mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: September 1, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Oddly my last two indoor orb photos have shown an orb near this smoke detector, although I am photographing a full room. The same detector acted in a spooky manner not long ago, as reported here.