The Orb Had Strange Edges and an Inner Circle

 Photo date: June 16, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Angels in an Orb?

 Referring to an incident during World War I, a newspaper account states this:

"Some of the Tommies [British soldiers] claimed to have seen a trio of winged beings standing together in the ball of light. Private Robert Cleaver, of the First Cheshire Regiment, signed an affidavit to that effect."

A similar story appears in a 1940 news article:

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 5)

Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

My photo below shows a green sky orb that rather seems to have a face. 

 My photo below shows (below two green sky orbs) a green orb seeming to play "tag the statue."

My photo below shows a green sky orb and also a purple sky orb. 

 My photo below also shows a green sky orb. 

Below we see a green sky orb I photographed near the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

My photo below shows a big green orb floating above a building in New York City

 Below we see a green orb I photographed near a church steeple:

 

A Metaphysical Interpretation of a Dream I've Had 17 Times

This morning I had another instance of a recurring dream that I have experienced 17 times. It is what I call the "accrued earnings" dream. It always has the same two features. In the dream I am working at a job and I suddenly realize that for a long time (usually months) I have forgotten to fill in my time card. The idea is always that I have some bonanza of accrued earnings waiting for me. Often there is the idea that if I can go to some office and explain what happened, I will be able to get all of this money I am due but have not yet received. 

Condensing the dream into a description as short as possible, the two themes are these:

(1) There was some important thing that I forgot. 

(2) Some bonanza of earnings I have earned await for me to claim. 

I have an interesting speculation that may explain the dream.  In the dream the job being worked at may symbolize your earthly life. The "accrued earnings" in the dream may symbolize some afterlife reward that will be paid upon death to every good person who lived on Earth, with a reward proportional to how long you lived or how much trouble you endured, or both.  An interesting speculation is that each of us signed up for "Earth duty," lured by a promise that at the end of such a duty our participation would be very richly rewarded -- perhaps with some ratio such as 100 or 1000 units of pleasure for every unit of pain experienced, or maybe a reward of 10,000 units of happiness for every unit of earthly unhappiness we experienced.  The "forgetting" motif in the dream may symbolize a non-earthly existence that each of us may have had before being born, something we forgot about when being born on Earth, but may one day remember. 

To understand this speculation, you would need to understand the hypothesis of the nonearthly pre-existence of the soul. I explain the concept and some evidence that may suggest it in my post "Dreams and NDEs Suggesting the Soul's Non-Earthly Pre-Existence," which you can read here. The hypothesis may be supported by frequent cases in which someone having a near-death experience may encounter some mystical realm, and may have a strong feeling that such a place is his "true home." 

I admit that I am being speculative here, and that interpreting dreams is a very tricky business. If anyone else has had a dream like the dream I have described, I would be interested to hear about it. 

UAP Buffs Are All Talking About That Wall Street Journal Article, But It Sounds Hard to Believe

 In my earlier post "Mystery Orbs Should Make Us More Humble," I discussed a very unsatisfactory article written by the former "UAP grand chief" Sean Kirkpatrick. The US Department of Defense had an office dedicated to investigating reports of UFOs (or UAP, variously defined as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). The office was officially called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office or AARO. Sean Kirkpatrick led the office in 2022 and 2023, but resigned around the end of 2023. 

Kirkpatrick wrote an article that appeared in Scientific American, one entitled "Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter." My post on the article noted that Kirkpatrick made some statements in that article that made him sound ill-suited for the role that he had, partially because of an attitude that you might call a "why-am-I-wasting-my-time-on-this-stuff?" attitude. 

Now we have a big new article involving Sean Kirkpatrick. But it is not one he has written himself. Sean has teamed up with a Wall Street Journal writer, who has written a UFO/UAP article in which Sean has a starring role. It is a very strange mishmash entitled "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology."  I call it a mishmash because of a few little scraps here and there which do not amount to anything that sounds like any unified coherent plausible narrative. 

The first anecdote told by the story seems hard-to-believe and not very important even if it is true. We read about some colonel who supposedly gave a bar owner fake UFO photos, which the bar owner put on his walls. The bar was near Area 51. We are told that this was done so that people would think sightings of strange craft around that area were UFOs, rather than suspect the truth: the government was testing a new type of aircraft.  

The story sounds far-fetched. If you wanted to spread misinformation about what was seen around area 51, why do something so ineffective as making fake photos that would go up on the wall of a bar?

There follows in the article paragraph after paragraph not giving specific examples, but trying to create the idea that government officials may have done something to create false ideas about UFOs, maybe to confuse people so that they would not know about classified information.  

We have this far-fetched account, which includes no specific confessions by anyone involved:

"But Kirkpatrick soon discovered that some of the obsession with secrecy verged on the farcical. A former Air Force officer was visibly terrified when he told Kirkpatrick’s investigators that he had been briefed on a secret alien project decades earlier, and was warned that if he ever repeated the secret he could be jailed or executed. The claim would be repeated to investigators by other men who had never spoken of the matter, even with their spouses. 

It turned out the witnesses had been victims of a bizarre hazing ritual. 

For decades, certain new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs, as part of their induction briefings, would be handed a piece of paper with a photo of what looked like a flying saucer. The craft was described as an antigravity maneuvering vehicle. 

The officers were told that the program they were joining, dubbed Yankee Blue, was part of an effort to reverse-engineer the technology on the craft. They were told never to mention it again. Many never learned it was fake. Kirkpatrick found the practice had begun decades before, and appeared to continue still. The defense secretary’s office sent a memo out across the service in the spring of 2023 ordering the practice to stop immediately, but the damage was done. 

Investigators are still trying to determine why officers had misled subordinates, whether as some type of loyalty test, a more deliberate attempt to deceive or something else."

The account sounds hard to believe. Why would someone mislead "commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs" into thinking that there was some captured UFO that was being reverse-engineered?  The explanation of a "hazing ritual" makes no sense at all. A "hazing ritual" is some trick or ordeal typically pulled on people at the bottom of some academic or military hierarchy, usually so that people higher up on such a hierarchy can remind the people at the bottom of their lower status.  It sounds  unbelievable that such a "hazing ritual" would be applied to  "commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs." 

We have a quote that may initially sound impressive, but which is actually unimpressive, because it does not come from a named witness, and does not speak precisely. The quote is this:

 "Ma’am, we know it went on for decades. We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of people. These men signed NDAs. They thought it was real.“

But what exactly is the "it" being referred to here from this anonymous source? We don't know. So the quote means little. 

The story ends with an account that does not sound right. We read about how a mysterious disabling of a nuclear launch system was associated with the sighting of one or more mysterious light anomalies some thought were UFOs.  The article attempts to persuade us that the explanation was some weird device the government was using to test the effect of electromagnetic pulse effects (EMP). But the article fails to link in any convincing way the construction and activation of such a device with the reported events of nuclear launch systems being mysteriously deactivated.  An article by Kevin Wright points out one reason the claim does not hold water:  any device testing EMP effects would probably not merely temporarily turn off a nuclear launch system, but also do permanent damage to such a system. It would be crazy for the government to be deliberately creating EMP effects near nuclear launch systems. 

We are left with a mishmash of bits and pieces that fails to add up to  some convincing narrative of the government systematically providing disinformation to mislead people about UFOs.  The story mostly sounds like a deal in which Sean Kirkpatrick is trying to further convince people that there's nothing to UFOs or UAPs, as he tried to do in his Scientific American article in 2024. The Wall Street Journal article's main photo is a giant photo of Sean. 

I do know this much: US government web sites continue to state enormously false claims about the nature of the human genome consisting of DNA and its genes. I documented this false information in my post "The US Government's False Claims About DNA." That post was written in 2022, and the very false claims I documented still exist on the US government web pages I cited. We have heard some claims that the new US administration is attempting to correct pages with false biology information, but no such correction has occurred in the pages I discuss in that post. 

I cannot think of any reason why anyone at the US government would have engaged in "hazing rituals" to deceive "new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified programs," as the recent Wall Street Journal article claims. I do understand well a reason why biology authorities would be making false claims about the nature of DNA. That reason is explained in my widely-read post here. 

They Saw a Spooky Orb

 Below is part of an old newspaper account you can read here. 

See-Through Something

 Photo date: June 9, 2025.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Were They Saved By an Orb?

 Below is an account from the Psychic News, 1980-06-28 (Page 3), which you can read here. The title is "Supernormal light save pair lost on mountain." We read of the appearance of a "big blue ball of light" which leads a lost pair in the right direction to safety. 

Orb Rising From a Mountain?

 Below is a news article reporting the sighting of a mysterious orb rising up from a mountain top. We read of a witness claiming that he saw "a big ball of light shoot from the top of the mountain."

A Green Orb

 Photo date: June 4, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious green orb that I photographed indoors. 

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 4)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a building in New York City. Was it peeking through the lighted window?

My photo on the left we see a green orb that seems to be acting like a tightrope walker. 

The photo below shows a green orb above a very old church in New York.

 

My photo below shows another green orb in the sky:

In my photo below you can see two or three green sky orbs, along with a much larger purple orb.  The column is a war memorial.

 

My photo here shows green sky orbs:

My photo below shows another green sky orb:

Dumbfounding Drops

Below we see a set of lovely flowers that one of my daughters recently bought. 

 When I came up to the kitchen area this morning to get tea, I noticed something strange. There was a fist-sized concentration of pink pedals at a spot roughly corresponding to the bottom left part of this photo. "How strange" I thought to myself, before cleaning up the pedal mess.

When I came back for lunch more than an hour later, I saw another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot that I had seen the pedals before. Again, I cleaned up the pedals. I prepared myself some lunch, which took only about ten minutes. I was alone in the kitchen. 

After sitting down for lunch, I noticed that once again there was another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot I had found the first two concentrations of pedals (roughly corresponding to the bottom left of the photo above). The third concentration of pedals had appeared within a time span that could not have been more than 15 minutes. 

Usually pedals falling can be naturally explained.  But in a case like this we have pedal-falling behavior that seems to defy anything that chance might produce. The pedals were only seen in the same fist-sized area of the counter, although randomly falling pedals from this flower arrangement would have fallen over an area maybe ten or twenty times bigger. And it seems that randomly falling pedals would not have fallen to make a concentration of pedals during a time span of only 15 minutes. There is no strong wind today where I live. 

Maybe there is some symbolic significance here. The spooky event involving pedal drops may portend  that something important is about to drop. Let us hope it is not the stock market. 

Postscript: After publishing this post at about 2:30, I went back up to the kitchen, and found the following (the previous pedals had all been cleaned up):

The pedals were in the same spot that the previous three pedal droppings had occurred. For the fourth time today I cleaned up all the pedals from the counter.  I then went out to buy something. Returning with some flowers for the front yard, I checked the kitchen counter again. Now there were no pedal droppings near the vase.  I planted the flowers I had bought, and went back to the kitchen to make some coffee. Now there was once again a big dropping of pedals or pedal fragments, only in the same spot where the previous four pedal droppings had occurred. Below is what I saw:

Someone who believes that plants are conscious might speculate that this is some flower trying to act in some attention-getting way, by dropping its pedals or pedal fragments in concentrated bursts rather than at random intervals. 

Post-postscript: The next day I found the rather heart-shaped pedal below, on the floor, about 18 or 20 inches away from the flower vase. I can't explain how it got to that position. The windows were closed at the time. 

When I saw this, I also saw some pedal or pedal fragments near the vase, which I cleaned up, leaving the area around the vase clean. When I came back 90 minutes later, there was the big concentration of pedals and pedal fragments shown below. I can't understand how so much material could have naturally fallen in so short a time. I was the only person in the house, and the windows were still closed.

Again, I cleaned up all these pedals and pedal fragments, leaving the area near the vase clean. Coming back about 90 minutes later, for lunch, I saw what we see below.

Once again I cleaned up all the pedals and pedal fragments, and decided I would carefully observe whether any pedals or pedal fragments fell during the 30 minutes I would be in the kitchen for lunch. Not a single pedal or pedal fragment fell.  

Saved by an Orb Taking Human Form?

 In an old newspaper account (Psychic News, 1984-10-13, page 2),  which you can read here, we read of a German woman lost in the Bavarian Alps:

Another account of a mysterious orb sighting can be read here. We read that Ronald Martin, 18, of Levelland saw a "big ball of fire" drop on to the highway, when it changed to a bluish green color. Martin then says the object changed to a fireball again, and then rose up and disappeared. We read that another witness (Nowell Wright) reported a "similar occurrence."

The Orb Synchronicity Was Afterlife-Related

 Photo date May 30, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a storage chest. 

I have a tale about some afterlife-related synchronicity involving the photo above. First, I'll give some introductory comments. As I have recorded in my series of 27 posts here, I have at numerous times observed lights or other devices that seemed to mysteriously turn on "by themselves."  Many times I was there to see the light or device turn on mysteriously, as in the 50+ cases recorded in my post here. In other cases I may lock the front door of the house where I live, and go out on a walk, coming back to find the light above my front door on, although I was 99% sure that such a light was off when I locked the door.  The light can only be turned on from inside the house. This happened again today. After arriving back from a walk of about 30 minutes, I again was surprised to see the light above the front door on, as I remember it being off when I locked the door. There was someone else in the house working inside all day, but I have noticed this effect several times when there was no one else in the house.  

After returning from my walk today, I continued to work and watch on my TV the "And Just Like That" series on HBO Max, a sequel to the "Sex and the City" series. Very soon they played the final episode of Season 1. In that episode the main character (Carrie) experiences something spooky. She finds that as she is going to bed, the light above her mysteriously turns on by itself. In the series Carrie has recently been widowed. In the series she wonders whether the spooky event of the light turning on by itself is a sign from her late husband. 

I found the synchronicity between my experience today and seeing this on TV less than an hour later to be striking, as both involved someone getting the impression of a light above mysteriously turning on in a spooky way.  As the TV show depicted another example of the character Carrie seeing the light above her mysteriously turn on by itself, I got out my camera to take a photo. At the very moment my TV set showed the Carrie character being mystified by her spooky-acting light, I got the mysterious orb shown above. 

Spook Snap?

Below is a news story published in 1932, which you can read using the link here:

Ghost Photo Reproduces Edgar Wallace

LONDON, Oct. 1 (I.N.S.).—A “ghost” picture sensation was
created here when John Myers, who claims to have perfected 
a method of taking spirit photographs, reproduced a picture of 
the late Edward Wallace.  Every protection was taken against fraud. Besides two photographers and the medium, three other men were present at the experiment.

Five persons sat in a group
while Myers opened the shutter
of the camera and went into a
trance. After a few minutes he
came out of the trance and
closed the shutter. Another
plate was inserted, and this
time the medium went into a
longer trance, during which he cried out:
“I see Edgar.” When the plates were developed a few moments latter, a likeness of the famous writer of mystery stories appeared.

Another Orb With a Backslash

 Photo date: May 26, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors.

This is the 23rd mysterious orb I have photographed with this type of backslash stripe. To see them all, use the link here. 

An Orb Rising Out of the Sea?

 In the news account here, Sean David Morton describes an encounter he had with an orb that "invaded his ranch." He says this:

"It was a perfect sphere with orange-reddish pulsating light. The sphere came very close to us. Very, very close."

He also says that in 1991 he saw a "brilliant, glowing ball of light."   On the page here, the astronomer Camille Flammarion tells us this strange account of an orb rising out of the sea and rising up into the air:

"On November 12, 1887, a very curious instance of a fireball was noticed on the Atlantic.

It was at midnight, near Cape Race. An enormous fireball was seen to rise slowly out of the sea to the height of sixteen or seventeen metres. It travelled against the wind, and came quite near the vessel from which it was being watched. Then it turned towards the south-east and disappeared. The apparition lasted about five minutes."

On the page here, he says, "In some cases, fireballs have been seen to come down from the sky apparently, and then, after almost reaching but not actually touching the ground, to ascend again."

On the page here, Flammarion states this:

"Fireballs often keep within the frontiers of cloudland. They may be seen passing sometimes from one cloud to another in the high regions of the atmosphere.

On September 22, 1813, at seven in the evening, M. Louis Ordinaire saw a fireball leave a cloud at the zenith — the sky being very much lowering at the time — and go towards another. It was of a reddish yellow and extremely brilliant, lighting up the ground with a bright radiance.

He was able to follow its movements for at least a minute, and then saw it disappear into the second cloud."

On another page we read this strange account:

"On January 6, 1850, near Merlan, about six in the afternoon, a fireball burst above the heads of two men, enveloping them in a bluish light, without hurting them or even damaging their clothes, but giving them a momentary thrill as from an electric battery. It left no traces of any kind, not even a smell."

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 3)

 Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

On Below is a green orb I photographed another green orb near a tree.

The photo below shows a green orb I photographed above a gargoyle at the top of a building.

 

The photos below show some colorful orbs I photographed above windows in New York City.  We see colors of green, orange, red, and purple.

The photos below show a variety of colorful orbs I photographed at the edge of a park area in New York City.  We see colors of green, red, purple, blue, and orange.

The photo below shows some colorful orbs I photographed at the edge of a park in New York City.

The photos below show some colorful orbs I photographed in New York City, one of which was green. 

Colorful Edges

 Photo date: May 19, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Mysterious Translucent Orb Found in Space, Trillions of Times Bigger Than the Sun, and Its Origin Is Unknown

 We have in today's science news quite an interesting article, one entitled "Mysteriously Perfect Sphere Spotted in Space by Astronomers."  We read, "In data collected by a powerful radio telescope, astronomers have found what appears to be a perfectly spherical bubble."  The term "bubble" (suggesting something small) is inappropriate to describe what was found. The translucent orb found in space is trillions of times larger than the sun, and has a diameter of at least 11 light-years. A light-year is the distance that light travels in a year. 

The article is based on a preprint that gives us an image of the mysterious translucent sphere, which scientists have named Teleios. The image is below:

Teleios, from the scientific paper here

The article immediately tries to suggest that scientists understand how this super-gigantic translucent sphere appeared. But the article misspeaks, because there is currently no credible explanation for this object. The article incorrectly states, "We know more or less what it is – it's the ball of expanding material ejected by an exploding star, a supernova remnant – but how it came to be is more of a puzzle." No, scientists do not know how this Teleios object originated, and do not know that it is a supernova remnant. 

A supernova remnant is an expanding shell of gas that results from the explosion of a star much bigger than the sun.  The expanding shell of gas that comes from a supernova is often called a planetary nebula, which is an example of a poorly chosen phrase used by astronomers. So-called planetary nebulas are not planets and do not come from planets.  

Astronomers have photographed very many planetary nebulas, very many supernova remnants. Such things typically have an irregular shape, not a perfectly circular shape. An example is the Crab Nebula shown below:

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)

Using the link here, you can see photos of many supernova remnants (so-called planetary nebulas), and none of them have a perfectly circular shape. The closest thing to a perfect circle is the Bubble Nebula, which is less perfectly circular than the newly discovered Teleios object. 

The article points out that scientists expected to detect X-rays from the Teleios translucent orb, but did not detect such X-rays, leaving them baffled. The article makes it clear that the scientists cannot even figure out how far away or how big this Teleios translucent orb is. But the object is thought to be at least 11 light-years across.  Our sun has a diameter only a ten-millionth of a light year. An object 11 light-years in diameter would be something like ten to the 24th power times larger than our sun: that is, more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the sun. 

The article quotes scientists talking about the uncertainty of the object's origin. The scientists say this:

"All possible scenarios have their challenges, especially considering the lack of X-ray emission that is expected to be detectable given our evolutionary modelling. While we deem the Type Ia scenario the most likely, we note that no direct evidence is available to definitively confirm any scenario and new sensitive and high-resolution observations of this object are needed."

Given such uncertainty, it is inappropriate for the scientists to have entitled their preprint "Teleios (G305.4-2.2) -- the mystery of a perfectly shaped new Galactic supernova remnant." They do not know that the mysterious translucent orb they have observed is a supernova remnant.  In the preprint, the authors make a confession, followed by some bad reasoning:

"Teleios’s unusually close-to-perfect circular shape, steep radio spectral index (α = –0.6±0.3), weak polarisation signature and low surface brightness are rather challenging to reconcile with typical SNR [supernova remnant] characteristics. However, despite only confirmed radio-continuum emission, there is little doubt that Teleios is a Galactic SNR as no other known source type could better fit its radio properties."

The last sentence does not make any sense. You are not entitled to conclude that some strange-looking thing is an example of some known type of thing merely because "no other known source type could better fit its properties."  For example, if you see a gigantic flying saucer hovering in the air, you are not entitled to conclude that it is probably a helicopter because "no other known source type could better fit its properties."  There is no rule that strange-looking things must be examples of types of things that are already known and understood. Strange-looking things may well be examples of types of things that are not already known and not understood. 

Baffling Bands

 Photo date: May 15, 2025.  Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Green Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 2)

Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious green orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

The photo below shows a mysterious green orb I photographed near a high tower in New York City.

The photos below show a green orb and a blue orb I photographed near buildings in New York

The photo below shows a bright green orb I photographed near a building in New York, next to a much larger but duller orb.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a building in New York City. 

The photo below shows a green orb and a blue orb I photographed near a building in New York City.

  My photo below shows a transparent green sky orb. 

The photo below shows a mysterious green orb I photographed near a tree.  

Diameter Diversity

Photo date: May 13, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below some mysterious orbs I photographed indoors 

A Blue Double-Striped Orb

 Photo date: May 10, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

To see 76 photos I have taken of mysterious orbs with two stripes, use the link here, and keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right. 

To see 1486 photos I have taken of mysterious blue orbs, use the link here, and keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right. 

Did the Orb Foretell the Loss of "Australia's Titanic"?

 Below is part of a newspaper account in the June 10, 1944 edition of Psychic News, which you can read here. We read of a clairvoyant who claimed to sometimes get paranormal notifications arriving by means of a ball of light:

A web page gives us the details on what happened to the line Waratah:

"The SS Waratah, sometimes referred to as 'Australia's Titanic', was a 500 foot steamer. In July 1909, the ship, en route from Durban to Cape Town, disappeared with 211 passengers and crew aboard. The disappearance of the ship remains one of the most baffling nautical mysteries of all time. To this day no trace of the ship has ever been found."