A Ring Inside It?

Photo date: August 29, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

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. 

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. 

Orb With an Inner Ring

 Photo date: March 24, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. It has a small ring feature in it, as I have seen in quite a few other orbs I have photographed (as you can see here). 

The Circle in the Circle

 Photo date: October 4, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors, one which has a little circle inside it. 

Repetition of the "Ribbon and Ring" Pattern

Below we see a pattern I got two times in mysterious orbs I photographed. In both we see a small ring above a stripe with a rather wavy look.

This is one of 39 repeating patterns I have got in mysterious orbs photographed in clean dry air.  See here for other examples.

Strangely Striped

Below we see some mysterious striped orbs I recently photographed.

Odd Orbs

Below we see some mysterious orbs I photographed in recent days.

Strangest Stripes

Below we see some mysterious striped orbs that I photographed in recent days, some of the 700+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

The Greenish Orb's Three Rings

Photo date: August 26, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  We can see three different rings in the orb. The first two are found near the outer circumference of the orb (an effect you can also see in these photos). The third is the small dark ring near the top.

Bizarre Orbs

Below we some mysterious orbs I photographed in recent weeks.  Besides some stripes in the orbs, we see some strange little rings in some of them.  See here for other mysterious orbs with small rings inside them.   The first photo in the grid below looks like this orb which also had a stripe and a ring.

Pink Orb Near the Orb Book

Photo date: May 11, 2019.  Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious pink orb I photographed near a book on orbs in my bookcase.  Look closely at the right edge of the orb, and we can see what looks rather like the profile of a face looking to the right.

The Orb's Little Ring

Photo date: March 12, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. You can see a little ring inside the orb.  See here for similar photos.

The Orb's Ring and Stripe

Photo date: April 26, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal. The orb has both a stripe and a small ring near the top (neither of which are features in the underlying surface).  The lower ring, on the other hand, is a feature of the underlying surface. 

A Speeding Orb

Photo date: February 5, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious speeding orb I photographed in front of a TV set that was turned off.  We can seem to see three position states of the speeding orb.

The Little Circle Inside the Sky Orb

Photo date: December 7, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious sky orb I photographed. Inside the orb we see a little circle.

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

The Ring Inside the Ringed Orange Sky Orb

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

The photo below shows an orange orb I photographed above an outdoor Christmas tree in New York.  We see a small ring shape inside the orb, and also an outer ring near the outer circumference of the orb.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 37. The pollen count listed on pollen.com was "low," with a rating of 0.1.

A Ringed Sky Orb

Photo date: December 28, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky. We see an unusual ring structure inside the orb.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good." The pollen count listed on pollen.com was "low," with a level of 0.1.

The Strange Ring in the Purple Sky Orb

Photo date: March 23, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a purple orb floating above a building on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

When I use the IrfanView "Auto-adjust colors" menu option on a closeup of the orb, I can see a strange detail. There is a ring feature at the top of the orb. There's also a feature on the left that is hard to make out, although it looks rather like an animal head.

There was no rain, fog, mist or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 45.

I photograph purple sky orbs quite frequently. Below is one from March 12, 2016, a dry night with no fog, mist, rain or precipitation, and an air quality of "good."