Photo date: May 27, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The backdrop is a TV set that was turned off. We seem to see four position states of a speeding orb. We are left with the impression of a remarkably twisty path of motion.
The near-death experience site ww.nderf.org now has a search feature allowing you to search for particular keywords in their collection of accounts. When I tried using the search page with a search phrase of "orb" I get these statements on the second page of results:
Yolanda A.: "I then realized that I was watching myself die. I could see that I was an electric-blue, light orb with a tail of blue light."
Thomas D: "I walked through what seemed like a veil. I saw a sea of orbs with translucent bodies. I was standing on a stage and I looked down. I said, 'Hi' to all my family and friends that had passed the through the veil over the years."
Elena D.: "Conversations without words with creatures that resembled a cloud orb."
Sam P.: "There was one being who held an orb of what looked like liquid gold light that was dripping, and contained geometric patterns. The other beings were touching this orb and cleaning my body with it, while encouraging me, and commending me for the life that I had lived."
David H.: "I could not feel my shoulders or neck and realized that I did not have a body. I was an orb on a table and my face was like a round ball. In front of me was a man with black hair. He was dressed in a white, dress shirt with a long, black tie, and black pants accented with a gold, belt buckle. He looked at me for a few minutes and then said, 'You're not ready.' He used his right hand to push me back into my body."
Alma B.: "There was a huge Orb of The Glistening Eye of God that was hovering in front of me. It was so large and filled with the Light of diamonds and bright white."
Debra P. "I found myself at the ceiling of the intensive care unit room (ICU) I was in. I was looking down on my body, fully aware that I was an orb."
Joschua B: "Around me appeared other orbs of light. The orbs were other people who had passed away. We all glowed with different shades of light. Some were more pink, some were blue and I was yellow. I remember that all of our thoughts flowed into and out of each other simultaneously."
Shanna L.: "I don't recall being guided back to my physical body. I just remember opening the eyes to my physical body and seeing orbs of light floating all around me."
Cindy J.: "Then the movement stopped and I found myself standing very still in an ORB of white light, a circular space of light. This space was filled with about 15 Beings of white light. They were not material or recognizable in our sense of physical bodies, but I could recognize them clearly and could communicate without words."
Rachel R. "I then was greeted by 5-10 golden 'orbs,' which I felt I knew. It was like a reunion. I felt the most joy and ecstasy I had ever felt when they greeted me. I knew them within. One orb approached me and showed me that I was the same. When it combined with me, I realized that I was also a golden orb. I was then pulled back, even more quickly than I had gotten to this other world; I was back in my body."
Below is Part 16 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors.
The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed near one of the entrances of Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a speeding orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see the "string of pearls" effect I have many times previously photographed (as shown here), in which we seem to see multiple position states of a speeding object.
The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Photo date: May 22, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We see an odd rectangular feature in the orb
The US government just released some new files pertaining to possible UFOs or UAPs. We get this account in an ABC News story:
"Also included in the files is a written account from a senior U.S. intelligence officer last year who described seeing 'two large orbs flare up' alongside their helicopter while on a mission. The officer wrote they were 'orange with a white or yellow center, and emitted light in all directions.'
Fighter jets then scrambled to identify the objects -- but couldn't, the officer recounted. He said 'the same orbs we had encountered were now 'chasing' the fighters ... We were virtually speechless after these observations.' "
A CBS News article on the latest release says, "A video from 2022, which does not have a location listed, shows multiple spherical objects going in and out of the water near a submarine." That claims sounds stunning, but someone looking at the video is likely to be disappointed. In the video we cannot clearly see sphere-shaped objects near the submarine. We merely see tiny-looking objects that could be insects near the camera, or birds or fish, or drones that are not spherical.
Postscript: The document here gives the first-hand testimony by an unnamed intelligence officer describing what happened in 2025. The witness says, "In the distance, we saw countless orange orbs swarming in all directions against the backdrop of the mountain." The witness also says, "We also observed orange orbs flaring up and down around us for several minutes, forming a distinct triangle before vanishing."
The near-death experience site ww.nderf.org now has a search feature allowing you to search for particular keywords in their collection of accounts. When I tried using the search page with a search phrase of "orb" I get these statements on the first page of results:
Photo date: May 16, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
Below is Part 5 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious orange orbs.
The photo below shows two mysterious striped orbs I photographed near a book case in my home. The first one shows a clear example of a "shadow stripe" in an orb, a stripe with two or three parallel lines. You can see other examples of such shadow stripes here.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. We see two little rings inside the orb.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. If you tilt your head to the left, you can rather see a number "10" in the orb.
We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors.
The photo below shows a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors.
On the same day I photographed these two orange orbs.
Below are some mysterious orange orbs I photographed .
Photo date: May 15, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious greenish-yellow orb I photographed indoors.
The US government has just released a trove of information related to UFOs and UAPs. The information can be found at the site https://www.war.gov/ufo/. The most interesting result was the one I got on the page here. When you press the Download button, you get a PDF file that includes the very interesting "Orbs Launching Orbs" account described in my previous post "Three Teams of US Federal Agents Saw 'Orbs Launching Orbs.' "
There is another very interesting account that you get when you press that Download button. You get the account below, describing how US federal agents reported seeing an orange striped orb in the sky. The account is below (the image is from document at the US government page here.)
We read above that two US federal agents reported seeing at a reported distance of 500-600 meters a "glowing orange orb." The sighting lasted about a minute. We have an artist rendering that depicts a striped orange orb.
That will "ring a bell" for frequent readers of this site. I have personally photographed more than 800 mysterious striped orbs. You can see those photos either by using the link here and continuing to press Older Posts at the bottom right (which will involve a lot of clicking). Or, for those who prefer the ease of finger-swiping though 800 of my photos of mysterious striped orbs, you can use the link here. After clicking on the [] icon at the bottom, you can view the whole book by finger swiping.
I have taken dozens of photos of striped orange orbs, which you can see here.
The US government has just released a trove of information related to UFOs and UAPs. The information can be found at the site https://www.war.gov/ufo/. The interface is not very impressive, and the average person will have to do a lot of clicking to examine the information. Doing that will bring up many an old document written by typewriter.
But the site does have a nice search function, and using that I typed in "orb" and got five results. The most interesting one was the one I got on the page here. It had the account below. We have a document entitled "Orbs Launching Orbs." We read this:
"Three teams of two federal law enforcement special agents each (USPER1 through USPER6) independently describe seeing orange 'orbs' in the sky emit/launch smaller red 'orbs' in groups of two to four, with three being the general consensus. This is stated to have occurred at least five times."
Below is the image we get on the US government page.
I saw three strange things today. Probably the least strange thing was the appearance of my initials within an ECG/EKG reading. A while ago I bought the Kardia Mobile device which allows you to get an EKG reading (also called an ECG reading) by placing two fingers on a little metal pad that connects to your smartphone. You can use the device to get a 1-lead ECG/EKG reading. Supposedly the device alerts you if it detects atrial fibrillation. But luckily I have not got such a warning yet.
Below is part of what came up today in the reading. We see an "MM" which matches my initials.
When I woke up, I saw something else very strange. I use a tube of white hydrocortisone to prevent night itching (it's pretty much the best thing there is to prevent itching, and you can buy it for little at any good drugstore). In the morning when I went into the bathroom there were two perfect circles of the white hydrocortisone lotion on the floor, near the sink, each about as big as a large coin. Now, it is easy to imagine me accidentally dripping some of this lotion on the floor, in a messy-looking drip, since I apply such lotion at night. But what is the chance that two perfect circles would be formed by such accidental dripping? Very low, it would seem.
Trying to imagine some symbolic significance here, I can imagine that the two white circles symbolized circular orbs like those I sometimes photograph. Or maybe there was some time symbolism occurring. Two white circles might symbolize two full moons, or a period of 60 days. Maybe I was getting a warning about something dramatic or ominous that will occur in about 60 days.
I continue to have dreams that seem to symbolize life after death, and I have recorded more than 555 such dreams in my frequently updated post here. In the latest such dream I dreamed of a person deep underwater, floating up through an underwater passageway, heading towards the air and sunlight above the water. The "floating up to the light" motif seemed to symbolize a soul floating up to the spiritual illumination of a heavenly afterlife.
Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors this evening. We see some streaks of green in an orb that is mainly white.
Photo date: May 7, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orange shape I photographed indoors. It seems like a rather oval shape that seems to be moving fast.
Below is Part 15 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors.
The photo below shows quite a few mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photos below show various mysterious blue orbs that I photographed near wreaths in Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb that appeared near a restaurant area in Grand Central Terminal.
The photo below shows two mysterious blue orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal, both of which seem to be at the same altitude, and both near the top of a window.
The photo below shows two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal. The one on the right seems to be moving fast.
The photos below show four mysterious orbs I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.
The photos below show two mysterious orbs that I photographed near Christmas wreaths in Grand Central Terminal.
Photo date: May 6 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors near an air conditioner.
In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Netflix series "High Seas" two characters start talking about life after death. I started to take some photos, hoping to get something spooky during the brief conversation mentioning life after death. I did get an orb in a photo at the exact moment a character mentioned the phrase "near death experience." At the exact moment that one character was saying that when someone dies, it may be that "their spirit remains with us," I got a very spooky-looking effect in my photo of the TV screen. It could conceivably have been caused by my hand accidentally making a sudden jerk at that moment. But my hand is almost invariably steady when I photograph, and I bet I could take 500 consecutive photos of a TV without such an effect repeating.
Postscript: Five days later I photographed another bright orb at almost the exact same position.
Photo date: May 4, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed outdoors. There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The sky was clear, and the camera was pointed straight up at the sky, where no visible moon could be seen.
In my "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022, which you can read here, I describe how informal telepathy tests between me and my daughters have sometimes had remarkable successes. I only very rarely do such a test, which I will casually try in the form of a guessing game. Maybe once every few months I will ask a daughter to guess what unusual thing I saw, or what thing I dreamed about. The only such test I made recently was one involving a single question, with the unusual variation of being a very long-distance test.
While one of my daughters was thousands of miles away recently on a trip, I texted her, telling her I had a dream about a game, and asking her to guess which game it was. I got back a guess of "Skyrim," one of very many video games I have played. I texted back saying that was a good guess, but the dream I had was actually about the board game Monopoly.
I then got back a text from this daughter saying, "Oh, wow, I was actually thinking that for a second but thought it would be hard to have a dream about Monopoly." So apparently the long distance telepathy test was a success.
In my post here I discuss a casual method for testing telepathy between family members and friends. It involves doing a quick "what did I see?" or "what did I dream?" guessing game, in which the guesser gets three guesses. I have noticed a kind of "warmup" effect in such tests, in which the guesser often gives the correct answer on the second or third try.
My "Psychic Bond?" post of 2022 (which discusses some striking successes in such casual ESP tests) does not even discuss quite a few much earlier examples that very strongly seemed like ESP or telepathy between myself and family members, which are discussed in my "Spookiest Observations" post here.
The evidence for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy in humans is overwhelming, and you can read about that evidence in my series of 81 posts here (keep pressing Older Posts at the bottom right to read them all). The evidence consists of both a gigantic wealth of anecdotal reports, and also a huge body of compelling experimental evidence done in laboratory conditions. An example of the latter is the "better than a smoking gun" Riess test described here.
You may want to test telepathy on someone who disbelieves in it, and such a person may shun participation in guessing games. An alternate technique is to pose something as a puzzle, and challenge the person to give the one-word answer to the puzzle with an answer hard to guess. One way to do such a thing is to ask a person to give the final word of a joke, one that finishes the "punchline" of the joke. I can give an example. You can tell this joke and ask the person to give the word that completes the joke. Give the person 20 seconds to answer, and during this time think silently of the answer.
"John was a single 35-year-old man with a very sick widower father, a father who was very rich. John expected to soon inherit the father's millions. One day John went into a bar, hoping to attract interest from a female. He met a sexy young woman and told her about how his father was very rich, and very ill. 'I speak the truth,' said John. 'Lots of people in this town know how rich my father is.' Instead of continuing to talk with John, the woman simply said, 'Nice talking to you,' and left. John was disappointed. Three weeks later the woman became John's __________."
The word that completes the joke is hard to guess. It is "stepmother."
Postscript: I get quite a few experiences suggestive of telepathy outside of any tests I am doing. To give an example, today while making myself some tea using a tea bag, I thought to myself something along the lines of, "It would be nice if one of my daughters were to buy me one of those containers of loose green tea - maybe I'll get one for Father's Day." About 20 minutes later one of my daughters arrived, and gave me exactly that gift, a container of loose green tea.
Below is Part 4 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious orange orbs.
Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors,
My photo below shows what looks like a speeding orb near a bookcase.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb orange I photographed indoors. It loomed large in the photo, appearing as 10 percent of the original photo height.
Below we two mysterious orange orbs that I photographed indoors.
The photos below show two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors, one orange and one orange-green.
We see below a mysterious orange orb that I photographed indoors.
Using the Google Trends web page, and comparing the popularity of searches for the term "orbs" and the term "ufos," I was surprised to get the result below, showing the term "orbs" beating the term "ufos."
Changing the query to the singular tense (comparing the popularity of "orb" versus "ufo") produces this graph, which show the term "ufo" as generally more popular than "orb," except for a recent surge in which the term "orb" was more popular.
The same tool suggests that interest in ghosts is steady, far exceeding interest in either orbs or UFOs. I am not surprised, as I know that my posts documenting reports of apparition sightings by others are some of my most popular posts.
Photo date: April 28, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
When I get an orb appearing with words behind it, I sometimes wonder whether my attention is being called to the words underneath the orb. The words on the air conditioner label under the orb include the words "electric" and "voltage." Conceivably this could be an indication of an electrical nature of orbs.
It would make an interesting experiment to tape up on a wall some pieces of paper with letters or words, and to then take some photos, to see whether orbs might appear next to the pieces of paper in a way that would form a message.
There was recently published the paper "Dreams of the deceased: A scoping and mixed-methods systematic review" by Zulkayda Mamat and others. Here are some highlights:
Photo date April 26, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.
I have done two previous retrospective posts on mysterious yellow sky orbs, which you can see below (the photos were all taken at night, after the sun had set):
Yellow Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 1)
Yellow Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 2)
Below is Part 3 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious yellow orbs. Part 2 can be seen here.
I took the photo below in 2021. We seem to have a speeding yellow orb.
The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors with a reverse 7 inside it.
The photos below show mysterious yellow orbs I photographed indoors.
Below is a mysterious yellow orb I photographed at Grand Central.
The photo below shows a bright yellow orb I photographed indoors. It looks as if the orb has cast a yellow glow on the steel underneath it.
The photos below show four mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York, one yellow and three blue. They were all photographed on the same day in 2019.
My photo below from 2019 shows a mysterious orb near a plant.
