Orb Behind the Fan Handle

 Photo date: June 20, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The fan in the foreground was about two meters away from the camera.  We have an interesting "other side" motif here, possibly symbolizing an Other Side of an afterlife. 

Orange Orb Behind the Bedspread

 Photo date: February 20, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors.

Distant Orb

Photo date: December 11, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The orb seems to be partially behind a curtain.  See here for 73 other photos showing mysterious orbs behind distant obstructions.

High Enigmas

The photos below show two mysterious blue orbs I photographed on March 22, 2018 and April 20, 2018, both positioned near a row of lights in Grand Central Terminal.

Orb on the Other Side

Photo date: April 14, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below an orb that appears to be behind a fence.

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

Distant Orb Perched Behind the Lights

Photo date: December 21, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. The orb seems to be clearly behind the row of lights that was many meters from my camera. A photo such as this (showing a mysterious orb behind a distant obstruction) refutes the idea that orbs are tiny particles very close to the camera (a theory that is untenable for the size reasons discussed here).  See here for many similar photos of orbs behind distant obstructions.

You Can't Blur an Orb by Shaking the Camera

Photo date: October 30, 2017.  Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Occasionally I will accidentally shake the camera while photographing, which results in a photo in which almost everything has that blur-streaked look to it. As shown here, I have nine times before taken photographs like this in which I saw mysterious orbs that did not looked blurred, even though everything else in the photo was blurred. Below is another such example taken in Grand Central Terminal.

They Spooked the Sky

Photo date: September 28, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows some orbs I photographed at a park area in New York City.  We see an orange orb and some purple orbs.

Below is a closeup of the orb on the left, which seems to be behind the fence.

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

Distant Orb

Photo date: September 25, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

As you can see in this series of photos, I have many times photographed mysterious orbs exactly aligned with a row of lights at Grand Central Terminal.  The grid below shows some of these photos.

Strange Sky Trio

Photo date: July 15, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows  mysterious orbs near Rockefeller Center in New York. The one at bottom seems to be partially behind the building at right. It's one of many photos I have taken showing orbs partially behind distant obstructions.

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

The Orb Behind the Fence

Photo date: March 17, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

In the photo below we see an orb that seems to be behind the fence at the bottom. This is one of many photos I have published showing orbs behind distant obstructions. Such photos help to refute claims that orbs are tiny specks near the camera (a claim that is untenable for the physical and mathematical reasons discussed here).

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good."

Blue Orb Behind the Luminous Dove?

Photo date: January 9, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below at Grand Central Terminal in New York. We see a mysterious blue orb like I have photographed hundreds of times in this location. But if you look closely you'll see something very strange on the left side of the orb. We see some strange luminous figure with a shape resembling that of a dove. The mysterious orb seems to be behind this strange luminous shape.

Transparent Blue Orb Behind the Distant Light

Photo date: January 6, 2017.  Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a transparent blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

A closeup seems to show the orb behind the light. There is no sign that any part of the radiance from the light has been changed by the orb.

Snuggling Spirit?

Photo date: December 27, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a blue orb that seems to have snuggled into a cozy position behind a wreath at Grand Central Terminal in New York. It's one of many mysterious orbs I have photographed near wreaths (see here for other examples).

Below is a rather similar photo I took on the same day.

The Distant Orbs Were Like Perching Birds

I took the photos below on July 13, 2016 and October 15, 2016. In both we see orbs that seem to be partially behind distant architectural features. The orb on the left seems to be partially behinds some lights, and the orb on the right seems to be partially behind a protruding detail of an ornamental window.

Eclipse of the Non-Lunar Orb

Photo date: November 7, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb that seems to be behind the top of the Chrysler Building in New York.  The orb was not the moon, which was only a half-moon on this night (and which was not visible near the Chrysler Building when the photo was taken).

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

Large Orb Behind the Water Drop

Photo date: September 21, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. In the foreground we see a water drop that was about five inches from the camera. In the background we see a large orb with an apparent size of about five inches. This orb took up 36 percent of the original photo height. It's not a drop of water on my camera lens, because it didn't appear in the next photo. The orb cannot possibly be a speck of dust very near the camera, both because it is behind a water drop five inches from the camera, and also because of its large size. I estimate some particle would need to be 3000 microns to appear this large, but floating indoor dust particles are only about 10 microns.

Azure and Amazing

Photo date: August 24, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The orb on the left seems like a rather shy one, since it seemed to be half-hiding behind a white surface more than a meter from my camera.  The orb on the right rather seems to have an eye-like feature.

Blue Orb on Its High Perch

Photo date: July 26, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb at Grand Central Terminal in New York, nestled exactly in the middle of two huge windows.

A closeup shows it seems to be behind the light.

Green Orb Behind the Iron?

Photo date: July 8, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a green orb observed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. Part of the orb seems to be in front of the iron that is part of the window, and part of the orb seems to be behind some of that iron.

See here for many other photos of green orbs at this location.