Were the Australian Mystery Lights Caused by Orbs?

 In 2012 NASA released a light map of planet Earth made from observations by an orbiting satellite. The map was made from data acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. Most continents appeared as expected. For example, the map of the United States showed many lights around the heavily populated east coast, but not much light around the Rocky Mountains, where much fewer people live.

But the light map had one big surprise: there were many lights shown over the eastern half of western Australia. The eastern half of western Australia has little population. So how could there be all these lights coming from such a sparsely populated area?  In my 2015 post here I discuss how a NASA "burn map" discredits the explanation that the lights were caused by vegetation fires. 

The very interesting TV show "What on Earth?" which can be seen on HBO Max deals mostly with anomalies that show up in satellite photos. One episode partially deals with the Australian mystery lights (Season 1, episode 6).  Below is a photo of my TV screen at the moment the program was discussing the strange lights.  Few people live in the area with most of the lights we see below.

At the 36 minutes left mark in the episode, we have an interview with an aboriginal Australian named Francis who suggests an explanation.  He recalls seeing several times what the Australians call "min min lights."  The narrator says this:  "For centuries, aboriginal peoples have told stories of bright hovering lights in Australia; they're known as min min lights."

Francis gives this eyewitness account:

"This light would appear from -- it seems from out of nowhere, I can't explain it. But it was a shimmering ball of fire-like substance. It would dance through the trees to its own rhythm, it would seem. It would hover there and shimmer and then PHEW it was gone." 

The narrator tells us that there have been thousands of reports of these mysterious "min min lights," and that "eyewitnesses report seeing glowing orbs in the sky." The episode gives us no preferred explanation of the cause of the lights shown on the screen above, leaving the matter as one of its many unsolved mysteries.

An Australian news article says this about this topic:

"The lights have been described by witnesses as floating, fast-moving balls of colour that glow in the night sky...Sometimes the lights are blue and other times they are white or yellow.

In Queensland, the Boulia Shire Council notifies visitors 'in the interest of tourism' that they are in the land of the Min Min lights and that they may spot them as they drive for the next 120 kilometres....Some Aboriginal people believe the Min Min lights are the spirits of elders."

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A Hotspot for Orbs and Bigfoot?

We have in today's Daily Mail an article with the title "Mystery of Massachusetts' 'Monsterland' - a five-mile stretch of unchartered woods where locals claim they've seen flying saucers, glowing orange orbs and BIG FOOT."  The article is about a wooded area near Leominster, Massachusetts in the USA. We have a video interview with a Bigfoot investigator. At the 2:10 mark in the video the man says, "We witnessed a ball of light change and turn into two eyes...and then become basically this eight-foot shadow that ran in front of us." 

We read this:

"Claims of apelike creatures, humanoid footprints, and car engines suddenly giving out are now rife - with several, including Le Blanc, spotting strange orbs floating overhead.

He believes the latter and the at-large beast are indelibly linked, citing other reports of people actually spotting the monster holding these 'orange spheres'.

Different objects described as 'flying saucers' have also been reported, with some caught on camera.

Le Blanc suspects they are all related, and claims to have witnessed the floating orbs at least nine times over the years. 

Several other sightings have been reported since, including one on July 3 of 2012, and another almost ten years later on April 13, 2022.

Both occurrences were caught on camera, and the orbs in each are eerily identical. 

All the more alarming is that the strange orange objects - reminiscent even from afar of fireballs - fit the descriptions of countless Leominster residents over the decades, including several whom have spoke to Le Blanc.

'People have seen Bigfoot holding an orb,' he told the outlet during a tour through  the area in 2022. 'They look like a basketball with plasma swirling around and they’re silent. I've just seen them hovering over the sky and just blink out and disappear.' "

Below is a mysterious orange striped orb I photographed in 2022.

Globe-Shaped Ghost?

 At the site www.adcrp.org we have in the Publications section several interesting documents. One is entitled "Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)."  We have quite an interesting document that can be read here.  It's a document based on a large survey of people reporting "After Death Communication." On page 13 we read that 46% claimed to have a mysterious sighting of a deceased person.  These visual experiences varied.  On page 17 we read this section:

"Apparitions are sometimes surrounded by light. We asked if the deceased seemed brighter than their environment, in other words, if a light surrounded them or came from them. This was the case for just over a third of our sample. 

 For 34.7% apparition surrounded by light, 11.2% unsure, and for 54.0% apparition not surrounded by light. Here are some examples of luminous apparitions:

•  “It looked like a photo of her surrounded by a circle of sun rays.”
•  “Light filled body.”
•  “Globe of light."

The next page has this interesting part:

"We have asked those surveyed how the deceased appeared to them.  For 59.8% apparition already there when perceived, for 28.5% materializing right before their eyes, and 11.8% unsure. We enquired how the apparition disappeared.  For 14.4% fading gradually, for 28.1% dissolving instantly, for 18.0% not there anymore when experient blinked, 10.9% unsure, and 28.5% other."

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Can You Know in a Dream Some Fact You Never Learned When Awake?

 Last night I had one of my endless dreams in which deceased people appear. It was the third dream I have had about the late actress Betty White. Other famous deceased people have appeared more often (such as Ronald Reagan, who has appeared in eleven different dreams).  My dream was very simple: Betty White had discovered that she was romantically desired by Allen Ludden, the host of the long-running TV game show "Password." In my dream Betty rejected Allen, saying that she was not interested. 

After I awoke I thought this was a strange dream to have, because I remembered the two had been married. The two were married for 17 years, until Allen's death from cancer in 1980. Looking up a biography of Allen Ludden on Wikipedia,  I read the following: "He proposed to Betty White, whom he had met on Password, at least twice before she accepted."  So my dream of Betty White rejecting Allen Ludden's romantic overture matched an event that twice happened in real life. But I never learned of so obscure a fact while awake (until this morning, after I had the dream). 

Postscript: On March 2, 2024 I had another dream making me ask the same question posed in this post's title. In my dream I saw an animal in a tree, and I guessed that it was a koala. But then someone said, "No, it's a marmoset." When I awoke and wrote down the dream, I could not recall what a marmoset was. Even after waking up in the morning, I still could not recall anything about the word "marmoset," although I had a suspicion that it was some kind of animal. I looked up the term, and found that a marmoset was a kind of monkey. In the dream the reference made sense, because marmosets are tree-dwellers.  It was just as if in the dream I knew that the marmoset is a tree-dwelling animal, but I did not know any such thing when awaking after having the dream.  I can never recall speaking the word "marmoset," nor can I ever hear reading about such a topic before having the dream. 

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A Green Orb

 Photo date: February 11, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

Another Event That Was Like an Invisible Presence Pressing a Button

This morning, about 30 minutes ago,  my Playstation machine inexplicably turned on by itself.

The machine is set up so that every time I turn on the power going to the TV and the Playstation machine, the Playstation always turns on two minutes after turning on the power. This morning after waking up, I did what I always do in the morning: after turning on the power,  I turned off the Playstation, and selected a TV program to watch. The TV program I selected this morning was Fringe, which I am in the middle of binge-watching.  

After about  five or ten minutes of the TV running this program Fringe, my Playstation inexplicably turned on, while I was sitting on a sofa two meters away, with no one else in the room. This has never happened in the nearly two years I have lived at this location.  The Playstation has a turn on button on its front, and its controller was resting on top of the machine, under the TV screen. The event reminds me of an event I recorded on January 29. When that January 29 event occurred, it was just as if some invisible presence had pressed the Test button on the GFCI button in my bathroom, causing the circuit to turn off with a loud click noise. Similarly, the inexplicable-seeming event I describe here (occurring last year) was just like what would have happened if an invisible presence had pressed the Test button on a smoke alarm in a room that had no vapor or smoke. 

Above is my TV just after this event occurred. It is always obvious when the Playstation (PS4) turns on, as the whole TV becomes like we see above. Ironically the series Fringe ( on HBO Max)  is about paranormal events. I am certain I did turn off the Playstation -- the PS4 -- first thing in the morning, because two minutes after turning on the power in the morning, I get not the screen shown above, but a different PS4 screen complaining that the power was suddenly turned off (something I do every night), and also because you cannot watch TV in the morning with my setup unless you first turn off the Playstation. At the time the PS4 (Playstation) suddenly turned on, my TV remote was an arm's length away. You can turn on the Playstation with the TV remote, but that requires pressing different TV remote buttons in a particular sequence of about four presses, something that would never occur accidentally (or would occur accidentally with a probability of  less than about 1 in 1000, if you were pressing random buttons on the TV remote). 

It's very hard to capture events like this happening at random intervals. But my page here does show a video I took of a camera taking 300 pictures by itself, while no one was touching it.  And my page here does have a video showing a camera changing its settings when no one touched it. 

Postscript #1 : Speaking of seeing spooky things, a few days after writing the account above (on February 17) I saw a large raven about 15 feet away, on the street. It seemed bigger than any black bird I had ever seen in New York City. 

Postscript #2 (February 28, 2024): The event of the Playstation machine mysteriously turning on by itself occurred again today,  February 28, 2024. About seven minutes after I turned off the Playstation machine, it somehow turned on by itself. The conditions were the same as before: the Playstation controller was two meters away from me, on top of the Playstation, and the TV remote was an arm's length away from me. 

Postscript #3 (February 29, 2024): The event of the Playstation machine mysteriously turning on by itself occurred again today,  February 29, 2024, occurring two hours atter I had turned off the Playstation machine. The conditions were the same as before: the Playstation controller was two meters away from me, on top of the Playstation, and the TV remote was an arm's length away from me.  

Postscript #4 (March 1, 2024):  Another day, another spooky event.  While sitting on a couch watching TV and using my I-Pad today, March 1, 2024, at about noon,  I suddenly heard a very loud electronic noise, sounding several times.  A look at my state-of-the-art smoke detector on the ceiling (the Nest Protect model) showed that it had a blue color in its ring. which it does not normally display. There was no smoke or vapor in the room,  and no one had cooked in it that day, and no one had showered nearby for hours.  According to the Google link here, the Nest Protect will show such a ring (and make loud sounds) if someone presses the button on the detector. But no one pressed such a button.  Below is a still from a video I took when the smoke detector still showed the ring. The link says that the detector will announce that a test is being made if you press the button, but no such verbal announcement occurred.  This detector is powered by an electrical wire connection, and there was no sign of any power fluctuation. 

When Souls Learn What Bodies Could Not Have Learned

 In the video below, we have a remarkable example of what is called a veridical near-death experience. At the 22:09 mark a doctor recalls his "first day as a doctor" on a long shift at a hospital. A second-year resident promised the doctor that he would be with the doctor throughout his long shift. Soon a patient went into cardiac arrest, and the doctor was able to prevent him from dying (the second-year resident being absent). The doctor recalls talking with the patient's wife using rather gloomy language, and eating the patient's lunch (which the patient was too sick to eat). Days later the patient spoke to the doctor, and recalled floating out of his body during his cardiac arrest. The patient scolded the doctor for eating his lunch, and talking to his wife using such gloomy language. The doctor is stunned to hear the patient claim that at the time of his resuscitation from cardiac arrest, the doctor was feeling sorry for himself because the second-year resident did not stay with him as he promised. This was a rather embarrassing thought that the doctor had kept to himself, and had expressed to no one. 

We have here a good example of what is called a veridical out-of-body experience, in which a subject recalls making observations while out of his body which should have been impossible for him to make, given his medical situation at the time. See my post here for many similar cases. 

Orb With a Shadow Stripe

 Photo date: February 10, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. It is one of many orbs I have photographed with a shadow stripe. You can see 50+ others by using the link here and continuing to press Older Posts at the bottom right. 

Spirt Signs #12

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Today when I turned off a light in a bathroom, an object a meter away on the top of a toilet inexplicably fell to the ground. I wonder whether making this series of videos will increase the likelihood of such spooky events. 

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