A Striped Green Orb

Photo date: October 11, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. This is the 50th time I have photographed a mysterious orb with this type of diagonal slash stripe. To see 49 other examples of this pattern, see the "Diagonal Slash Pattern" section of my post here. 

A Green Orb

 Photo date: September 15, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors. 

On the same night I also got this orb:

A Striped Orb

 Photo date: November 8, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors. See here for 800+ other mysterious striped orbs I have photographed. 

Green Orbs

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

A Striped Green Orb

Photo date: October 15, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors near a bookcase.

Mysterious Marks

We see below some mysterious orbs that I photographed in recent days.

A Green Striped Orb

Photo date: June 30, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

Four days earlier I photographed a mysterious orb with the same "curvy Y" pattern consisting of a curved stripe and a straight stripe. Below we see that orb:

This repeating pattern is the 28th repeating pattern I have observed in mysterious orbs I photographed. The visual show shows examples of each of the patterns, and how often I have photographed particular patterns. You can see examples of all of these patterns by looking at this post.

Freaky Orbs

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

Spooky Similarity

We see below some mysterious orbs I photographed indoors in recent weeks, all of which have similar-looking stripes.  See here for 36 other examples of mysterious orbs with horizontal stripes near the center of the orb.

"Split" and Spooky

We see below two mysterious orbs that I photographed in June, 2019.

This is the 15th time I have photographed a mysterious orb with a vertical stripe like these ones, stretching from the top of the orb to the bottom of the orb. This repeating pattern is one of 27 repeating patterns I have observed in mysterious orbs I have photographed. The visual below shows examples of each of these patterns, and how many occurrences of the patterns I have photographed. You can see many examples of each of these patterns by looking at this post.

The Bands in the Baffling Balls

The photos below show some mysterious striped orbs I photographed in recent days.  The second and third ones look so similar you might think they are the same one, but they are different (the third having some green not in the second one).

The consistency of the thickness of orb stripes is astonishing. I have photographed more than 600 mysterious striped orbs, and I would estimate that more than 50% of them have a thickness about the same as we see in these orbs: a thickness about one sixth of the width of the orb.

Another interesting thing about mysterious striped orbs is how they seem to appear in long-lasting "streaks."  When I first started getting mysterious orbs in 2014, I took very many orb photos without getting a single striped orb. Then striped orbs started to appear, and appeared in my photos in great abundance for many months.  But by around December 2018 I started to get a long "slump" in which mysterious striped orbs would appear only about once or twice a month. But by May 2019 the mysterious striped orbs had reappeared in full force, and these days I am getting them quite abundantly.  In short, their rate of appearance varies enormously.

A Striped Green Orb

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

The photo below shows a mysterious striped green orb I photographed near a coffee cup and a water filter.

A Striped Green Orb

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

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal.

The Marks in the Mysteries

Below are two mysterious striped orbs I photographed indoors on July 12, 2018 and July 10, 2018.

Strangely Striped

Photo date: May 17, 2018. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photos below show two striped orbs I photographed indoors. For 500+ other photos I have taken of mysterious striped orbs, see here. 

The Marks in the Mysteries

Below are various mysterious orbs I photographed in early May, all of which have some type of strange stripe or mark.

The Spooky Green Orb's Shadow Stripe

Photo date: December 22, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious green orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see a strange stripe with a thin line parallel to the stripe. This type of stripe is called a shadow stripe. I have 34 times previously photographed mysterious orbs with shadow stripes (as shown here), although most of the 400+ striped orbs I have photographed did not have such a shadow stripe.

Confounding Cracks

The photos below show various mysterious striped orbs that I have photographed in recent weeks.

Striped Orbs in the Station

The photos below show two striped orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal on October 18, 2017 and October 27, 2017.   One has a vertical stripe, and the other has a horizontal stripe. See here for 400+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

Orbs with Inverted U Stripes

Below are two mysterious orbs I photographed on January 19, 2017 and October 8, 2017. They both have an inverted "U" stripe. It's not a pattern I see very often, unlike the frequently repeating patterns shown here.