Same Stripe, Same Day, Same Spot

Photo date: December 24, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below two mysterious orbs that I photographed on the same day. They both appeared at almost exactly the same spot, near the blue rectangle (part of a book) that you can see on the right of both images.

Unexplained Appearance

Below we see some mysterious orbs that I photographed indoors. Over the space of 24 hours, we see four cases of a right-angle in an orb stripe.

Below are two other orbs with right-angle stripes that appeared earlier in September:

Another Orb Reappearance

Below we see two photos I took, with the second taken an hour and twenty-one minutes after the first.  We see a very distinctive-looking "ballet dancer" motif repeated at the top of both of the photos. It looks like a stick figure of a leaping ballet dancer.  I took many photos in between these photos showing no such anomaly.

The photo below taken on September 6 shows the same "ballet dancer" motif:

Click here to see 30 other cases of repeating patterns in mysterious orbs.

Dramatic Orb Reappearances

Photo date: September 5, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below some stunning examples of orb reappearances that I photographed early yesterday.

See here for two other equally dramatic cases of orb reappearances.

Fasten your seat belts, folks. The phenomenon of mysterious striped orbs seems to be intensifying. There may be some truly jolting results to come. But I can't predict how long this intensification will last. I have found that there will be "streaks" lasting months in which mysterious striped orbs appear very often and very dramatically, but then there will be "slumps" lasting months in which I rarely get striped orbs.

The Second "Orb Twin" Appeared 8 Hours After the First

The photos below show two mysterious orbs I photographed on September 18, 2017.  The first one I photographed in the Queens area of New York City, and the second one I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York. Note the astonishing similarity. In both orbs we see a letter "H" in which the right "leg" of the H is curving to the right.  In between taking these photos I took many other photos which showed no orbs and no such "H."

This is the second day on which I have photographed two mysterious orbs both having the same exact same stripe pattern, one that looked like a letter of the alphabet.  The previous time this happened was on September 5, 2017, as recorded in this post.  On that day I got the two orbs shown below, both having a "T" shape inside them.

Such cases (in which the exact same very distinctive orb pattern is repeated on the same day) seem to be a dramatic new wrinkle in the ever-more-astonishing orb phenomenon. It is rather hard not to interpret such cases as being a signalling effect involving some external unfathomable intelligence.

The repeated "H" pattern is one of of 23 recurring patterns I have noticed in mysterious orbs I have photographed. The grid below summarizes each of these patterns, and how many times each have been photographed. Click here to see multiple examples of each of these patterns.

The Second "Orb Twin" Appeared an Hour After the First

Photo date: September 5, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below are two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors, about an hour apart, while photographing a featureless wall.  The two orbs look almost identical, both having a pair of stripes forming a "T" shape.

Imagine if someone were merely photographing natural particles. How often would a photographer get within the same hour by coincidence two particles that had distinctive markings this similar? The answer is: not once in a thousand reincarnated lifetimes.  There are quadrillions of possible ways in which random markings might be arranged inside an orb, so the chance of coincidentally getting a match this similar would be less than 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 during any hour.

In between taking these two photos, I took several other photos which showed nothing unusual -- no orbs, and no lines. No such lines were seen in any photos after the second photo, or before the first.  The photos had nothing to do with any camera irregularity.

These photos are the third and fourth times I have seen a T-shape in mysterious orbs I photographed. Two other examples are below.

This pattern is one of of 22 recurring patterns I have noticed in mysterious orbs I have photographed. The grid below summarizes each of these patterns, and how many times each have been photographed. Click here to see multiple examples of each of these patterns.

Shell-Shaped Orbs Look Like That Recent Siberian UFO

Recently a photographer took a video showing a strange shell-shaped or cone-shaped UFO photographed in Siberia. The news coverage quoted an astronomer saying he was sure the object was just a star shown close up -- a very absurd statement, since stars never look like the dimpled, shell-shaped object shown in the video, no matter how close you zoom your camera.

I have no idea what the object in that Siberian video was, but I do know that it looks rather like some shell-shaped orbs I have photographed. Below are two examples from my photographic backlog.  The bluer one is from December 17, 2015, and the other one is from November 26, 2015 (both were photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York). The two orbs are pretty much "spitting images" of each other, except that one has a brighter color.

Blue Orb Reappears at Exact Same Spot

At Grand Central Terminal in New York I took the photo on the left on June 9, 2016, and I took the photo on the right on June 16, 2016. Both show an identical-looking blue orb, and in both photos the orb seems to be in exactly the same position. On both days I took lots of other photos of the same window, none of which showed this orb.

Night of the Strange Reappearing Pink Orb Clusters

Photo date: January 4,  2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

On this night I saw something extremely strange in my photos. A cluster of very bright pink orbs appeared in one of my photos, and kept reappearing over and over again.

Here is the first photo, taken at 8:46 PM. Note the strange pink thing on the right. The camera strap was around my wrist while all of these photos were taken.

The next photo was also taken at 8:46 PM, and showed the cluster of pink orbs more prominently on the right. Note that you can identify particular pink balls here, so it can't be anything like a hair or a camera strap.

The next photo was taken two minutes later, at 8:48 PM, when I had walked much closer to the Empire State Building. Again, we see pink orbs on the right  (along with a purplish anomaly on the left).

The next photo was also taken at 8:48 PM, but is pointing in a different direction, down 34th street. It also shows pink orbs on the right.

The next photo was taken at 8:50 PM. It also shows pink orbs on the right.

It was as if some weird cluster of orbs was following me around. The anomaly appeared no more in dozens of photos I took walking back from the Empire State Building to 42nd Street.

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

Mystery Orb Reappears Twice Above Christmas Tree

Photo date: November 24, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo series I will now show is an example of something I have seen repeatedly: within a short series of photos I will see the same distinctive-looking orb appearing again and again, on and off within the series.  It's the kind of "reappearance weirdness" that I have documented in this series of posts.

The first photo was taken at 9:57 PM. We see the orb at the top of the photo. The sphere at the bottom is the moon.

The next 12 photos showed either no such orb, or only a fraction of such an orb. But then at 9:59 I took a photo that included the orb shown below, which looks almost exactly like the one shown at 9:57.

The next 7 photos either no such orb, or only a fraction of such an orb. But then at 10:00 I took a photo that included the orb shown below, which looks exactly like the one shown at 9:59.

The next 8 photos no such orb. But then I got the photo below, which showed two moving orbs. The top orb now looked slightly different than the photos above.

Here is a closeup of that photo that allows you to see the orb's "tail" a little better (I used the IrfanView "Auto-adjust colors" menu option on the closeup).

Quite a symbol-rich photo. A Christmas tree, the US flag, the moon, and a mysterious moving orb all in the same shot.

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

Addendum:  The photo below is one of the photos that did not show such an orb above the tree. As we can see, there was no artificial light above the tree that can explain the main anomaly shown in this post.

Moving Orb Reappears 25 Times

Photo date: November 19, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

On this night I took a series of photos that was one of the strangest I have ever taken. The series showed a moving orb that seemed to reappear about 25 different times within a series of 65 photos.

I photograph moving orbs very often, particularly in Grand Central Terminal in New York. But prior to this day, whenever I photographed a moving orb, it would be like a one-shot wonder. I would get a single photo showing what looked like a moving orb, but such an orb would not reappear in the next twenty photos.

On this day, however, something very different was going on. My photos showing what looked like the same moving orb reappearing many different times.  Here is a photo from early in the series, taken at 5:24 PM.  The camera seems to have caught two position states of a moving orb.

Here was the next photo, also taken at 5:24 PM.

Here was a photo taken in the next minute, at 5:25 PM. Note that now we seem to see not just two circular orbs within the shape, but three circular orbs.

Two photos later (also at 5:25 PM) I took this photo, showing a blank wall. Now there was no sign of the orb. This is the complete photo, without cropping.

But the next photo (also at 5:25 PM) showed the orb reappearing again.

Most of the next few photos showed no sign of the orb, including this photo of a piece of cardboard in front of the camera, taken at 5:28 PM.  This is the complete photo, without cropping.

But the next photo, taken at 5:29 PM, showed the orb back again.

Most of the next photos did not show the orb, including this photo taken of a piece of cardboard at 5:30 PM. This is the complete photo, without cropping.

But the next photo, also taken at 5:30 PM, showed the orb back again.

 There is no way to explain these series of photos through any natural hypothesis that I can think of. Each of the 25 times I photographed this orb within the same hour, it had the same position in the top right corner of the photo area (the orb photos shown here are closeups cropped from larger photos).  No insects were observed when these photos were taken, so we can hardly think that I was repeatedly photographing some insect I couldn't see with my eyes. The orbs look nothing like insects, and if it had been an insect it would have appeared at random positions, rather than always appearing in the top right corner each of 25 times. The same objections apply to a hypothesis of dust. Of course, neither insects nor dust move with even a tenth of the speed that seems to be shown in these photos, which seem to show something moving very fast.

The most workable natural hypothesis (although not a good one) is that there was some kind of smudge on my camera lens. But even that hypothesis fails for two reasons: (1) the "orb streak" does not look the same in each photo (sometimes having two internal circles, and sometimes three); (2) such a hypothesis is ruled out by the intervening photos I took of cardboard and blank walls (shown above), which did not show anything unusual.  A smudge on the lens would have showed up on all of the photos taken between 5:24 and 5:30 PM.

After taking this series of photos, I went to Grand Central Terminal, and took more than 100 photos which showed no such anomaly.

Although I have never before seen this type of reappearance with moving orbs, I have seen equally astonishing reappearances of anomalous objects, as shown in this series of posts, which include posts about reappearing giant purple orbs.

Reappearance of the Orange Orb

Photo date: November 17, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows an orange orb above a steeple in New York City.  The orb looks very similar to the orange orb shown in this photo taken at the same place. The object was not the moon, which was less than a half moon on this night.

There was no rain, fog, mist or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a rating of 32 (anything below 50 is considered good).

Duplication of the Duplicating Orb Veil

Photo date: November 2, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below were taken while photographing ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background.  The first photo shows two of the mysterious objects I call orb veils.   The two orb veils seem to have exactly the same shape. It's yet another example of a congruent stack of orb veils, shown also in this series of 21 photos.

The next photo was taken about seven seconds later.  We now see two congruent orb veils with exactly the same shape as the orb veils in the previous photo. But now the top orb veil is orange colored.

The next photo showed no such object.

This is the same type of phenomenon seen in this blog post, where I  photographed an orb veil with an extremely distinctive shape, and then (after two photos showing no such object) photographed another orb veil with exactly the same very distinctive shape.

There are two possibilities here. One possibility is that the two photos above show a congruent pair of orb veils that persisted for seven seconds, but changed color to orange. The second possibility is that the second photo shows a reappearance of a pair of orb veils, with the two orb veils having exactly the same very distinctive shape as the two orb veils that previously appeared. In either case we seem to have something quite paranormal that cannot at all be explained as some kind of transient splash or mundane light effect.

I may note that we cannot explain these orb veils as being water splashes on the camera lens. Whenever you have a water drop on the lens, it always results in a very blurry splotch, because the camera cannot focus on anything right on the lens. But  my orb veil photos such as these show objects with clear distinct details and nice sharp edges, meaning the object photographed cannot be  on the camera lens.

Orb Veil Reappears With the Exact Same 14-Point Shape

Photo date: August 29, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Let us now look at a most astonishing pair of photos in which we see an inexplicable exact duplication that is very strong evidence that something paranormal was occurring.

Both photos were taken while I was photographing ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background. My camera was resting on a stable platform.

The first photo in the pair is below. We see one of the objects I call "orb veils." I have 47 photos of these strange objects.  The photo also shows the equally mysterious objects I call "orb crescents." I have 37 photos of these strange objects, which are as hard to explain as the orb veils.

After taking this photo I took two other photos which showed no such object. When I took these photos the camera was in the exact same position, facing the same background.

I then took the photo below, which was taken roughly 20 seconds after the first photo. The photo below shows another orb veil. Very importantly, this orb veil has exactly the same very distinctive shape as the orb veil shown in the first photo.

I count some 14 exterior points or spiky edges on the first photo, and I see exactly the same points in exactly the same positions in the second photo. Moreover, in the bottom part of the orb veil shown in the first photo, we see two eye-like features consisting of concentric rings. If you look closely at the second photo, you can see exactly the same features, in the same area of the orb veil.

So what we see here is an orb veil reappearing with exactly the same very distinctive shape that we saw before.  Between the first photograph and the second photograph, the unmoved camera on a platform took 2 photos that showed no such thing. So this is a case that we must call a reappearance.

This exact reappearance is sufficient to rule out all normal explanations for these orb veils.  I can only think of two natural explanations for why one might see an orb veil like this in a photo: (1) perhaps we might be seeing some kind of "water splash" while photographing falling water drops; (2) perhaps we might be seeing some kind of "light flare" rather like lens flare.  But under such natural explanations, we would expect the shapes of the orb veils to have a completely random appearance each time. We would never expect to see two orb veils photographed in the same photo session to have exactly the same very distinctive shape, with each of 14 spiky points being in the same position. The chance of such a thing occurring by chance is less than 1 in a trillion (1 in 1,000,000,000,000).

Below is a photo that combines the two images.

The photo before the first photo and the photo after the second photo (both taken of the same background from the same fixed camera position) did not show any such orb veil. So there was this series of photos from the same fixed camera position: 1. No orb veil. 2. Orb veil with a distinctive 14-point shape. 3. No orb veil. 4. No orb veil. 5. Orb veil with the exact same 14-point shape. 6. No orb veil.

Giant Purple Orb "Follows the Script"

Photo date: July 23, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Periodically when I go out to photograph at night, I will get a giant purple orb in my photos, as you can see in my posts labeled "giant purple air orb." On pretty much any night I get a series of photos showing such a thing, it is as if some giant purple orb was "following a script," in the sense that the same distinctive things are seen.  The "script" goes like this:

(1) I will notice a giant purple orb on the left edge of my photo (never the right edge), with the photo showing only the left half of the orb.
(2) The orb seems to appear in about 8 to 20 of the next photos I take.
(3) As I am taking these photos, whenever I point my camera downward and photograph the ground, the orb will no longer be seen.  But it will be then seen again as soon as I point my camera up at the sky.
(4) After about 8 to 12 photos, the orb will start to fade away, until it no longer is seen. No further photos that night will show the giant purple orb.

Yesterday I again saw exactly this pattern being "acted out."  The photos below are all uploaded directly from the camera, without any cropping or color adjustment.

After appearing less brightly in a few photos, the orb showed up brightly in the photo below taken at 9:32 PM.

The next photo (taken also at 9:32 PM) showed the giant purple orb behind a fence. A closeup inspection of the top fence will show that the area in front of the orb looks no different from the area to the right of the orb, clearly indicating the orb was behind the fence that was more than a meter from my camera.

The next photo (taken at 9:33 PM) shows the giant purple orb halfway blocked by a concrete barrier, further showing that it was not within arm's length of my camera. Note also the two other orbs in the top of the photo, one of which is a rare orange orb.

Then I took a photo of the ground (also at 9:33), which showed no sign of the orb.

But the next photo (also at 9:33) showed the orb appearing again, clearly behind the barrier more than a meter from my camera.

Then after turning 180 degrees I took a photo at 9:34, in which the orb was again clearly visible, along with another orb floating in the middle of the photo.

The next few photos also showed the orb, but it seemed to fade away, seeming to get a little dimmer in each photo. After about 10 more photos, there was no sign of the orb.

The fact that these photos were taken in very dark locations (with no bright light nearby) rules out the possibility that lens flare was causing this. The appearance of the orb behind the distant obstruction rules out dust as an explanation, as does the huge size of the orb (no one ever photographs dust orbs looking even half as big as this object).

So far (in my posts labeled "giant purple air orb") I have about 35 photographs of such an orb, with it always appearing on the left side of the photo. A rough calculation of the probability of this occurring by chance would be 1 in X, where X is 2 raised to the 35th power, which is a probability of about 1 in 34 billion.

There was no fog,mist, rain, or precipitation on this night. I forgot to check the air quality at airnow.gov, but I can see from this link that the local air quality in New York City was good.

Once Again, a Giant Purple Orb

Photo date: July 2, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Last night again I photographed what I have repeatedly photographed before: a giant purple orb appearing in my photos. Below are some photos that are all the full original photos, without any cropping or color adjustments.

At 9:21 I took this photo showing a big purple orb and another much smaller orb.

Below is another photo taken also taken at 9:21 PM.

Below is another photo also taken at 9:21 PM. This was pointing in the opposite direction. There were no bright lights nearby, nothing that could be causing lens flare.

 Next I took the photo below, pointed at the ground, to test whether I was seeing something caused by a camera defect. But the orb did not appear. It was still 9:21 PM.

Next I took the photo below (still at 9:21 PM), which showed the purple orb again, along with several other orbs at the top.

At 9:22 PM I took the photo below, which shows the orb blocked by a concrete wall that was about a meter from me. This shows the orb could not possibly have been caused by dust near the camera. Dust particles in front of the camera never appear as orbs larger than 10 percent of the photo height, but this orb I was photographing was more than 50% of the photo height.  There was also a yellow orb in the sky.

Another photo at 9:22 showed the orb again.

At 9:22 I tried a "cardboard test" to see whether the orb would appear in front of a piece of cardboard photographed at arm's length. It did not. (The orange thing to the left was a little piece of shipping tape sticking out of the cardboard.)

There were no further appearances of this giant purple orb in any of more than 40 photos I took this night,  including several additional photos that I later took at this same spot.

Given the very dark location, there is no way to explain these photos as lens flare. Given the huge size of the orb (and its appearance behind an obstruction a meter from the camera), there is no way to explain it as being caused by dust or pollen. 

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.  The air quality was listed as "good" on airnow.gov, with a rating of 46. The pollen count was listed as low to medium on pollen.com, with a level of 4.7.

See my posts labeled "giant purple air orb" for descriptions (with photos) of several nights on which I had an experience like this night.