Like a Face Looking to the Left

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. With the eye-like feature at top, and the mouth-like feature at the bottom, we have a rather face-like appearance. 

Another Circular Anomaly

 It is clear from the photos of this blog that I get circle-shaped anomalies. Last night I saw a different type of circle-shaped anomaly. It was a hair on the marble wall of my bathroom, at eye-level, which formed a circle shape. Now it is true that my head sometimes sheds a hair or two. But what is the chance of someone shedding a hair, and the hair ending up on the wall, at eye level, so that a circle is formed? Very, very low, it would seem. 

The sight can be interpreted in an ominous manner. You could interpret this as an example of a mysterious writing on the wall, which has long signified an omen of doom, with this interpretation stemming from something reported in the biblical book of Daniel. The circle might symbolize the number 0, which could mean a number of time units remaining in my life -- maybe days, maybe weeks, maybe months. But it would probably be too gloomy to make such an interpretation, even though a zero shape did appear in a dream I had last night. 

I wonder whether there is any connection between this strange circle on the wall and the very odd anomaly I recently reported of me noticing rubber bands on the floor (or on my hand) while having no explanation of how they appeared there. Such rubber bands also have a circle shape. 

A Striped Blue Orb

 Photo date: August 29, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

See here for 60+ other photos I have taken of mysterious striped blue orbs. 

One Was Striped, the Other Purple

 Photo date: August 28, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. There are a few interesting features besides a stripe at the top. 

On the same day I got this mysterious purple orb:

Jets Could Not Catch the Color-Changing Orbs

 Below is a news report from 1953:

8000 Mysterious Orbs Over US Military Bases?

 The Daily Mail site is an entertaining one, although we should sometimes takes its headlines "with a grain of salt." So maybe you should be a little skeptical about its headline today which proclaims this:

Pentagon baffled by 8,000 mysterious UFO orbs hovering over US military bases

We read this:

"Strange orbs have been documented all over the world, from Puerto Rico to the Middle East.

Moreover, these tiny craft have apparently been visiting our skies for decades, with pilots during World War II reporting similar orbs over the skies of Europe.

Enigma revealed that more than 360 'metallic orb' reports took place within a few miles of military bases here on US soil.

In three of those cases, witnesses revealed that the orbs got within five miles of Fort Hamilton in New York, Papago Military Reserve in Arizona, and Los Angeles Air Force Base on multiple occasions."

Orbs of Different Colors

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

Below we see two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

Sky Pro Called This Orb "The Weirdest Phenomenon I've Ever Seen"

 The news report below appeared in the Daily News (Los Angeles), 7 April 1949, which you can read here:

The reported motion (sometimes fast and sometimes hovering) does not match the visual characteristics of meteors, which appear in the sky moving at a fast, constant speed. 

Orb With 2 Features

Photo date: August 23, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin 

We see below a mysterious orb with a prominent outer ring in addition to an odd mark on its top  

Huge Orb Making Loops in the Sky Had 300 Witnesses

 In the Oakland Tribune, Volume 117, Number 176, 25 June 1990, which you can read here, we have this account of an orb seen by many witnesses:

"In 1965, Michel Figuet, helmsman on the French submarine Junon, spotted a 'huge ball of light' making loops in the sky over Fort-de-France, Martinique. There were 300 witnesses, including six naval officers who watched the phenomenon through binoculars."

In another old newspaper account, which you can read here, we read of a seance in which a medium (Stewart Alexander) was tied to a chair inside a small enclosed area called a cabinet. Typically such a "cabinet" was merely a small corner of a room cordoned off with curtains. We read of the appearance of a mysterious ball of light, with someone claiming to see a face inside such an orb. 

Two Striped Orbs

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

We see two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors. 

Trump and the Orb Witnesses

 The web site The Hill is dedicated to reporting on what is going on at the centers of power in Washington, particularly Capitol Hill. This month the site had this large headline:

Mysterious 'Orbs' Demand Scientific Study

In the article we read this:

On July 24, the Senate confirmed former Air Force fighter pilot Matthew Lohmeier as the under secretary of the Air Force, the department’s second-highest civilian position. While in high school, Lohmeier had a remarkable UFO encounter.

According to Lohmeier, a “ball of light” descended upon him and a friend as they were in the wilderness outside of Tucson, Ariz. The object came so close that Lohmeier recalls that “it seemed to be buzzing with life, but it wasn’t man-made.”

“It was very well-organized, very spherical,” Lohmeier said, “and it seemed to be very conscious of the two of us that were sitting there in the Arizona mountains, like it was observing us … there was a level of interest from the orb to us.” Frightened, the two ran to their car. The object “zipped up and disappeared in the sky.”

Later in the article we read this:

Lohmeier is not the only Air Force fighter pilot left baffled by such an object. In a September appearance on Fox News, Trump stated that he interviewed several Air Force pilots who encountered spherical objects performing extraordinary maneuvers. According to Trump, the pilots told him, “All I know, sir, there was a round object that was going four times faster than my F-22.”

“Four or five guys [that] I’ve interviewed, solid people, great pilots for the U.S. Air Force,” Trump continued, have “seen things that they cannot explain, so there’s something.” Trump also told podcaster Joe Rogan that the pilots observed objects “like a round ball, but it wasn’t a comet or a meteor.”

Later in the article we read this:

Not only were observations of strange silver spheres widely reported in the media during World War II and afterwards, but the former director of the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office stated in a 2023 presentation to NASA that the military has tracked “metallic orbs” “all over the world” “making very interesting apparent maneuvers.

From Luminous Ball to Angel?

 On the page here you can see two pages from a book in a series entitled "The Best of Ghosts Caught on Film."  We see a striking image that looks like a luminous angel. We read this: ""Evidently Silvio's mother had recently died, and whilst taking a walk in some unspecified woods he saw a luminous ball, photographed it and subsequently discovered the angelic form."  We see a startling photo that I would reproduce here, except that my long-standing policy on this blog is to only publish photos I took myself. But you can see photo using the link here. 

Orb Ghosts Common?

 In the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 148, Number 305, 31 October 2004, which you can read here, we have an article quoting Dave Oester, who with his wife Sharon Gill founded an organization called the International Ghost Hunters Society. Referring to Oester, the article states this: "Most ghosts look like a ball of light or a misty vapor, he says, not a floating bedsheet or transparent human form."

Looking elsewhere for the phrase "ball of light" in old newspaper stories, I found an account that we might call "Saved by a Mysterious Orb." It is an account of the prevention of a head-on collision of two trains, averted by a mysterious ball of light. The account in the San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram, Number 163, 4 September 1913 can be read here. It begins like this:

The story is rather long, so I will quote merely the ending, where we read of a mysterious ball of light that seems to be crucial in the prevention of a head-on collision of two trains. 

A Bright Orb

 Photo date: August 11 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Was It "I'm a Ghost" Symbolism?

 A few minutes ago I had a strange experience involving a night eye shade, the one shown below, about as wide as my head:

After years of use, the back strap of the eye shade was no longer working well, and I decided to order a replacement.  After eating breakfast on the sofa of a living room (without noticing the eye shade in the living room where I can never remember putting it), I went from a living room to a bedroom to retrieve the eye shade, so I could check whether it had a particular feature. I could not find the eye shade where I normally keep it, on the bed in the bedroom.  Returning to the living room, I retrieved from one end of the living room a paper folder with my Amazon.com password, and went  to sit on the sofa. From there I ordered a replacement for the eye shade. I then got up, returned the paper folder to its position in my files, and went back to sit on the sofa.  I did some typing on my laptop for a few minutes, and soon I was surprised to see the missing eye shade. It was in about the most noticeable position it could be: four inches to the left of my body, on the sofa I was sitting, very plainly visible. I asked myself: how could I previously have failed to notice the eye shade in the two previous times I sat on the sofa, within the past few minutes? I also asked myself: how could it possibly have got to that position, since I never bring the night eye shade into the living room?  What I observed was suggestive of an object being mysteriously teleported. An alternate explanation would require the idea of forgetfulness, the idea of unprecedented placement behavior,  and ideas such as that I am such a clumsy observer that I don't notice things I am looking for, twice on the same morning when I sit right next to such things. I may reach such a state of inattention one day, but I don't think I have reached it yet.  To read of a previous experience I had suggestive of an object being teleported, read here. Just after writing the above paragraph, I noticed a pink rubber band on the floor to the left of the coffee table just in front of me, one I had not noticed previously while sitting for hours just in front of such a coffee table. I can't account for the rubber band appearing at that spot, which was the exact same little spot where I have been surprised to notice rubber bands on  three previous occasions, as I previously reported here. I always immediately clean up items such as coins, pens or rubber bands off the floor of my living quarters, as soon as I notice such things. 

After writing the paragraph above, I realized there may be some symbolic significance to the spooky event involving the eye shade. "Shade" was a term used in nineteenth century English to mean "ghost or disembodied spirit." And in the English language "eye" sounds just like "I." So an eye shade may symbolize the phrase "I shade," which may be equivalent to "I ghost" or "I disembodied spirit" or "I am a ghost" or "I am a disembodied spirit."  

Below we see how the Merriam-Webster dictionary has "a disembodied spirit: ghost" as one of its definitions of "shade."

Postscript: The day after writing this post I saw something else that seemed spooky. An air freshener I had on top of a toilet (inches away from the edge) mysteriously fell to the ground. I looked at the object to see whether I could find anything that it might symbolize. On the back I found the words "Transport yourself to a tropical paradise." Could this be some hint regarding an afterlife destination that I might reach before long? 

I continue to have mystifying observations in which I notice on the floor one or more rubber bands, with me having no explanation for how they got there, something I have seen well over 12 times this year (see here and here for about a dozen examples).  I noticed this soon after waking up on August 16, 2025. I checked a photo I had taken of the area just before going to bed  and it showed no rubber band on the floor. In one of those posts I speculate about a possible symbolic meaning of such occurrences. 

On August 18, 2025 in the morning I picked up from a TV stand a large pen to make a mark on a calendar. After walking a few steps towards the calendar, I was surprised to see a rubber band surrounding two of my fingers, as shown below. There was a rubber band near the spot where I had picked up the pen. But it seems all-but-impossible that picking up a pen near a rubber band would result in the rubber band accidentally surrounding two fingers. 

Just after writing the paragraph above, and adding it to this post, on August 18, I noticed in the middle of the wooden floor a pink rubber band, the appearance of which I cannot account for. I had taken the photo above at the same spot a few minutes earlier, when the floor did not have any rubber bands on it. I have had similar spooky-seeming observation experiences involving rubber bands well over 13 times. 

Later in the same day there was another event like the one described above,  when I was surprised to see a pink rubber band surrounding my finger when I picked up a smartphone lying near a rubber band. Maybe I should call this spooky day "the day of the finger-seeking rubber bands."

Post-postscript: On September 3 there were 3 other anomalies involving the seemingly inexplicable observations of a rubber band on the floor. I have now seen this type of spooky-seeming event occur well over 16 times. 

Post-Post-postscript: On October 21, 2025 there was another rubber band anomaly. After replacing a toilet paper roll on a toilet paper dispenser, I was surprised to see there was now a rubber band surrounding the four fingers of my left hand. I can't recall doing anything to cause that. A conceivable explanation is that the toilet paper roll had a rubber band around it, which I put around the fingers of my left hand, while forgetting about the trivial event. But I can't explain why a toilet paper roll would ever have started out with a rubber band around it. I buy toilet paper rolls from a nearby store, and they sure don't have rubber bands around them when I buy them. 

Her Orb Encounter and Their Apport Experience

 Netflix has a series called "Unsolved Mysteries" which seems separate from the long-running series hosted by Robert Stack many years ago. In Episode 5 of the third volume (v3, #5),  at around the 16:53  mark, we hear some investigator say this:

"When you hear the word 'paranormal' one of the common phenomena is what people refer to as 'an orb.' And orbs come in all different shapes, and size, and colors, and behaviors,  They operate at speeds and angles we couldn't even hope to duplicate."

We then hear an account by an anonymous witness who talks to the camera. She says she was driving home from work at night, and saw a red light that seemed to follow her (she later describes it as a red ball). She says shortly thereafter it was a "big ball" and a "bright white light."  She says the light followed her at a close distance, before rising straight up into the sky, becoming like a shooting star. 

We have an even more interesting account around the 33:22 mark, where we hear of some spooky activity. We hear two named witnesses describe a case of coins seeming to fall "out of nowhere," landing on the floor. One investigator says there were 65 coins that mysteriously appeared, all landing heads up. I am inclined  to believe the strange account, having had some incredibly strange experiences involving coins, such as a coin rolling up from behind me, on its edge, when I was alone in an apartment (just after having finished double-checking that all coins in the apartment had been put away, because I was trying to systematically study what seemed like a phenomenon of mysterious coin appearances that I was experiencing).  My description of this experience is in my "Spookiest Observations" post here, which includes other accounts as interesting. 

In the Netflix show the two describing what went on never use the term "apports," although that is the term used in parapsychology for reports of mysterious inexplicable appearances of objects. 

Anomalous August

 A few days ago I observed something very strange. The back window of where I sleep has heavy curtains, which I keep closed all day long, there being no view outside, except the view of an empty lot.  When I went to bed the whole window was blocked by the curtains.  But in the middle of the night I saw that the curtains were open 2 or 3 inches, in the middle. I cannot explain how this happened. There may be some "let the light in"  symbolism involved.

Today I was busily at work on a blog post when I heard a very distinctive "click" sound coming from the same bedroom or its bathroom. I thought to myself "I should investigate that" but continued my work. About an hour later I went into the bathroom and tried to turn on the light. I found that the circuit breaker switch had been turned off in the bathroom. No one had been in the bathroom during the past 90 minutes.  When the bathroom is in the state it was in, steam-free and with no electrical cords plugged in, the circuit breaker switch can be turned off only by pressing the button next to the green light shown below, which makes a "click" sound just like the one I heard. It was just as if some invisible force or invisible presence had pressed the button. 

This is only one of very many cases I have recorded of lights or devices turning on or off mysteriously.  Click here to read about all such cases (pressing Older Posts when you come to the bottom of the page). 

Small and Striped

Photo date: August 6, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors. 

Eerie Extra

 Similar to the account I published a few days ago is the 1890 account here that you can read using this link. 

Pushed by an Orb?

 At the site Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone, which you can access here, we have this recent account from an eyewitness:

"I was going out to my garden to do a bit of weeding. Rain earlier had softened up the ground which made it easier to pull them out. I was about half-way to the garden when I saw a glowing ball of light about five feet above my sidewalk blocking my way. I stopped and it began moving slowly directly toward me. I was somewhat afraid of it but hey, this is my yard, and I was not about to be intimidated so I stood still and watched as it approached. It stopped about two inches away. Then it moved closer and actually touched me. It started to push, and I began to back up a bit. It was then I fell backwards and landed on my back side. The ball raised up above me, floated there for a couple seconds then vanished. I don’t know if it flew off or just disappeared, either way it suddenly just wasn’t there anymore."

On the same page we read Stan Gordon say this:

"Over the years, I have received information from widespread areas on cases concerning observations of these smaller spherical objects on the ground or just above the ground. I was aware of these cases in the 1960s and have referred to them as mini-UFOs. Today they are being referred to as orbs or balls of light. These objects range in size from a few inches to about a foot or two in diameter. They are often described as the size of golf balls, baseballs, or basketball size.

While often spherical, other configurations have been reported. These objects often are light sources of assorted colors. They sometimes look solid, while in other cases they look transparent or translucent. There have also been some reports of a swirling mass inside of the spheres.

There have been encounters with these objects pacing vehicles and entering them through open windows. There have been other cases of these objects also entering homes through open windows or hovering in front of windows and even tapping on the panes. In more recent years, I have reports of these mystery orbs appearing inside of homes and only a feet away from witnesses. Various physiological effects have been reported in some cases. I have been of the opinion for a long time that this is one of the most important aspects of the UFO/UAP mystery that has been somewhat overlooked."

Spooky Displacement

Yesterday I unexpectedly saw on the coffee table in front of me a strip of paper stating something like "This book was written by my grandfather." It was a strip of paper I had long ago affixed to a small volume written by my late grandfather. I had put it there so that if the volume was discovered after my death, my family might remember to keep the volume or read the volume. The volume was stored behind a cabinet door about two meters from the coffee table. I saw another family member doing a little tidying up near where the volume was stored, but I did not see the cabinet door being opened; and I can think of no reason why anyone would have moved the piece of paper from its location affixed to the book behind the cabinet door to the coffee table in front of me. 

Trying to explain this in a paranormal way, you might explain it as a kind of suggestion from my late grandfather, a suggestion to read his book. 

Something else involving what seemed like an inexplicable displacement went on in the middle of the night, also with what seemed like a connection to a deceased family member. But for a private reason I will not describe what occurred. 

Postscript: Today I picked up the book written by my grandfather, and read one of his stories, a whimsical tale about a doctor who dies and goes to Heaven. The doctor is dismayed that everyone in Heaven is healthy and pain-free, and feels that this leaves him with no doctor work to do. He decides his skills would best be used elsewhere, so he journeys to a kind of Hades where there's significant suffering for him to alleviate. Eventually in the story the doctor goes back to Heaven. 

Enigmatic Extra

In the 1899 news article that you can read here, we have the following account suggesting the unexpected appearance of a ghost in a photo.