Mainstream Site Speculates About the Cause of Mystery Orbs Snapped by Scientist Camera, Mentioning Spirit Explanations

 As I mentioned in a previous post, at this page of the Coast to Coast web site, we have an interesting account of scientists who got images of what look like mysterious orbs. The images came from a trail camera set up in a remote part of Chile, for the purpose of scientifically studying wildlife. On the page we have a video, and at the 29 second mark we see the objects shown below, which seem like bright spheres.

Recently the mainstream LiveScience.com had an article about this event. We have an article with this headline:

"Camera trap in Chile detects strange lights blazing through the wilderness. Researchers are scrambling to explain them."

We have this quote:

" 'On a camera located at the edge of a meadow, quite far from any public road and focused on a flat horizon, some lights appeared that we cannot explain,'  biologist Alejandro Kusch said in a UMAG podcast in August. 'Apparently, these lights, which are initially distant, approach and remain in front of the camera, dazzling it, in a movement that appears to be descending ' ."

We read this:

"Potential explanations ranged from an arachnid coming very close to the camera lens to that of a 'plasmoid,' a short-lived form of plasma rarely observed in nature that may be behind phenomena such as ball lightning. However, all specialists agreed: for now, there is no conclusive explanation."

Later we read this:

"The local Mapuche people traditionally speak of 'bad lights,' which they believe are spirits that appear in the fields. This raises the possibility that the camera traps are finally capturing a phenomenon that has long been recognized in the region....One possibility is that the lights are unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), possibly from a mysterious flying object."

The "ball lighting" explanation is trotted out, but knocked down:

"According to Alexis, the primary light may be a plasmoid, or a bubble of incandescent ionized gas that is confined by Earth's local magnetic field, and that can remain stable for a few seconds. The most familiar atmospheric example is ball lightning, usually associated with storms. But that is where his explanation hits a wall. 'It was summer, with 48  degrees Fahrenheit [8 degrees Celsius], and there were no electrical storms,' Alexis told Live Science. 'There were no atmospheric conditions for a storm, so it is very unlikely that ball lightning could have formed.' "

The article ends on a "we have no explanation for this" note. 

We may note the huge failure of almost all scientists to study this topic decently. Mysterious orbs have been showing up in photos for decades, in the photos of very many people, with peculiar markings (the free online book here shows more than 800 photos of mysterious striped orbs), and with dramatically repeating patterns. But senselessly the mainstream may follow a policy of "pay no attention to something unless it shows up in a photo taken by a scientist."  So we get an article like the LiveScience one, which wrongly makes it sound like a mystery that has been photographed most abundantly for decades has been photographed for the first time this year. 

I may note that the Chile trail camera photos being discussed are not at all the first photos of mysterious orbs by a scientist. The physics PhD Klaus Heinemann took very many photos of mysterious orbs which he thinks have no mundane explanation, and he discusses his activity here. Also the scientific paper discussed here described observations of mysterious objects it called "spheroids,"  which occurred  repeatedly when some fancy scientific equipment was used to look for sky anomalies during a 10-month investigation in a remote part of Long Island. 

Mystery Orbs Photographed Far From Humans

 At this page of the Coast to Coast web site, we have an interesting account of scientists who got images of what look like mysterious orbs. The images came from a trail camera set up in a remote part of Chile, for the purpose of scientifically studying wildlife. On the page we have a video, and at the 29 second mark we see the objects shown below, which seem like bright spheres.

We read this:

" 'Explaining that the camera was placed at the edge of a valley 'quite far from any public road,' biologist Alejandro Kush Schwarzenberg marveled that 'we cannot explain' the origin of the anomalous illuminations picked up by the device. To that end, the University of Magellan team has eliminated prosaic possibilities for the enigmatic lights, such as a vehicle or an animal, and is now pondering more fantastic possibilities. One idea, put forward by Chilean ufologist Freddy Alexis Silva, is that the illuminations may be some kind of plasma that mysteriously manifested in front of the camera.

Meanwhile, Environmental Study Group member Rodrigo Bravo Garrido noted that the unexplained phenomena being detected during a scientific study and recognized by academics at the university make the case 'something very unprecedented.' "

Contrary to Garrido's statement, innumerable times in the past there was "unexplained phenomena being detected during a scientific study and recognized by academics at the university," such as the many years in which the ESP experiments of Duke University Professor Joseph Rhine produced extremely convincing results for telepathy. The study of paranormal phenomena has now gone on for a full 200 years, with the first major organized effort being the 1825-1831 investigation of the medical division of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, which found resoundingly in favor of clairvoyance (as discussed here). But in general today's professors are utterly ignorant of the history of research into paranormal phenomena, and such people work in conformist echo chambers of academia in which the serious study of the paranormal is taboo, for the sake of protecting a materialist creed.  So we should remember never to attach any weight to any generalization a professor makes about psychical research or research into the paranormal, unless that professor shows some signs of having done substantial scholarship on such a topic.