An Orange Orb

 Photo date: September 17, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

A Striped Orange Sky Orb

Photo date: July 21, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed outdoors.

An Orange Striped Orb

Photo date: June 1, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

From the Same Photo

Photo date: April 9, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see two colorful orbs that showed up in the same photo.  The one on the left is one of quite a few speeding striped orbs I have photographed, as shown here.

Orbs Near a Chair

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

We see below two mysterious orbs I photographed indoors.

Striped Orange Orb Had Pizazz

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

Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors, one of 700+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

An Orange Orb

Photo date: September 20, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orange orb I photographed indoors. 

Paranormal Pair

Photo date: May 25, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows two mysterious striped orbs I photographed near a book case in my home. The first one shows a clear example of a "shadow stripe" in an orb, a stripe with two or three parallel lines. You can see other examples of such shadow stripes here.

The 41st Slash Stripe in a Mysterious Orb

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

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky.

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

This is the 41st time I have photographed a mysterious orb with a slash-like stripe stretching from the top right of the orb to the bottom left 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.

Speeding Sky Stripe

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

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed in the sky.  See here for a video showing 500+ mysterious striped orbs I have photographed.

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

A Striped Orange Sky Orb

Photo date: October 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious striped orb I photographed in the sky, one of more than 400 mysterious striped orbs I have photographed (see here for examples).

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

Just Your Basic Orange "Hockey Stick" Sky Orb

Photo date: April 29, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the night sky. We see the "hockey stick" pattern  I have twice previously photographed.

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

The 5th Case of an Inverted V in a Mysterious Orb

Photo date: April 14, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed with an inverted V shape inside it. It was a dry night.

This is the fifth time I have photographed a mysterious orb with an inverted V shape. Below are four other cases.

Below is my revised table of 20 repeating patterns in mysterious orbs I have photographed (most of the examples referred to below can be conveniently seen in this post).

Description	Cases	Comments	URL
Inverted Y	7	Rather like the lower case lambda character, part of the Greek alphabet	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-seventh-photo-ive-taken-of.html
Umbilical cord ( AKA "cul-de-sac")	10	Resembles an umbilical cord with a curved loop. Is it a symbol of motherhood?	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-10th-appearance-of-this-orb-motif.html
Curved stripe at top or bottom	10	May be on top or bottom of orb	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/01/high-enigma-of-striped-orb.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/more-striped-orbs_18.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/occurrence-10-of-this-orb-pattern.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-9th-time-ive-seen-this-orb-pattern.html
Diagonal stripe	22	Goes from one side of orb to another, diagonally. Looks like a slash (not a backslash)	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-21st-mysterious-orb-ive.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-mysterious-orbs-arent-like.html
Short diagonal stripe	5	Goes from top right corner toward center	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-5th-sky-orb-ive-photographed-with.html
Hose and circle	9	Looks like a ball that has fallen out of a tube	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-9th-time-ive-photographed-this.html
Slanted C	12	Looks like a C shape, tilted over quite a bit to the right	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-slanted-c-orb-pattern-keeps.html
Inverted V	5	Looks rather like the caret character (an inverted V)	This post
Hook-like stripe	4	Has a kind of candy-cane shape	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/another-orb-with-hook-like-stripe.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/strange-stripes-on-mysterious-orb.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/blue-orbs-haunt-windows.html
Curvy 9 which fell down	2	Looks like a curvy nine which “fell down”	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-striped-orbs-with-same-fingerprint.html
4 stripes	2	Straight lines intersecting in a particular shape	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-same-strange-mark-on-two-striped.html
Broken squiggly T	3	One wiggly horizontal stripe at the top well above a vertical stripe at the bottom	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/reappearance-of-double-striped-orb.html
Hockey stick	2	A stripe with a shape resembling a hockey stick	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/another-hockey-stick-sky-orb.html
Backslash	7	Goes from one side of orb to another, diagonally. Looks like a backslash (not a slash)	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/night-of-backslash-sky-orbs.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/baffling-backslash-balls.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/another-backslash-sky-orb.html
Belt-like	14	A stripe goes from the left side of the orb to the right side, horizontally.	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/another-mysterious-orb-with-belt-like.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-belts-of-baffling-balls.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/wall-wonders.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/belts-of-baffling-balls.html
J-like	3	A stripe resembling the letter J.	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-third-j-letter-ive-photographed-in.html
Two-thirds of a Y	3	Resembles the letter Y with the left-most part missing	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/separated-at-birth.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/two-bs-in-this-striped-orbs.html
T with slanted top	3	Resembles the letter T, but with a slight break between the lines, and a slanted top that isn't wavy	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/recurring-orb-pattern-18.html
Corner chord	9	The corner of the orb has a line stretching from one point on the circumference of the orb to another point on the circumference	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-corner-chord-orb-pattern.html
Side curve	4	The orb has a curved stripe on its left or right side	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/04/side-curve-orbs.html

The "Corner Chord" Orb Pattern

In geometry a chord is a line connecting two points on a curve.  The photos below all show mysterious orbs I photographed that have chord stripes in one of the corners of the orb.

This is the nineteenth recurring pattern I have identified in mysterious orbs I have photographed. Click here to see 18 other patterns I have identified.

A Striped Orange Sky Orb

Photo date: April 10, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

 The photo below shows an orange striped orb I photographed near the Chrysler Building in New York.

Below is a closeup. This is 277th striped orb I have photographed in dry clean air.

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

A Striped Speeding Sky Orb

Photo date: April 1, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed in the sky.

 

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

The 17th Mysterious Orb With a Diagonal Slash

Photo date: March 16, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed at the edge of a park area in New York City.

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

This is the 17th mysterious orb I have photographed with a diagonal slash feature. Shown below are ten other examples.

Below is my revised graphic summarizing repeating patterns in mysterious orbs I have photographed (most of the examples referred to below can be conveniently seen in this post).

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The 14th Mysterious Orb With a Diagonal Slash

 Photo date: February 19, 2017. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below is a sky orb orb I photographed on a night with no rain, fog, mist or precipitation.

I have so far taken 14 photos of mysterious orbs that had a diagonal slash that goes from one side of the orb to another, with a resemblance to a slash rather than a backslash.  Below are ten of the photos. You can see the original posts in which I published these photos here.

Here are three more photos showing the same pattern:

Below is my updated table listing recurring patterns in mysterious orbs I have photographed  (most of the examples referred to below can be conveniently seen in this post).
 

Description	Occurrences	Comments	URL
Inverted Y	7	Rather like the lower case lambda character, part of the Greek alphabet	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-seventh-photo-ive-taken-of.html
Umbilical cord ( AKA "cul-de-sac")	10	Resembles an umbilical cord with a curved loop. Is it a symbol of motherhood?	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-10th-appearance-of-this-orb-motif.html
Curved stripe at top or bottom	9	May be on top or bottom of orb	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/01/high-enigma-of-striped-orb.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/more-striped-orbs_18.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-9th-time-ive-seen-this-orb-pattern.html
Diagonal stripe	14	Goes from one side of orb to another, diagonally. Looks like a slash (not a backslash)	This post
Short diagonal stripe	5	Goes from top right corner toward center	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-5th-sky-orb-ive-photographed-with.html
Hose and circle	9	Looks like a ball that has fallen out of a tube	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-9th-time-ive-photographed-this.html
Slanted C	11	Looks like a C shape, tilted over quite a bit to the right	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/01/recurrence-of-slanted-c-pattern-in.html
Inverted V	3	Looks rather like the caret character (an inverted V)	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/another-inverted-v-orb.html
Hook-like stripe	4	Has a kind of candy-cane shape	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/another-orb-with-hook-like-stripe.html http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/11/strange-stripes-on-mysterious-orb.html  http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/blue-orbs-haunt-windows.html
Curvy 9 which fell down	2	Looks like a curvy nine which “fell down”	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-striped-orbs-with-same-fingerprint.html
4 stripes	2	Straight lines intersecting in a particular shape	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-same-strange-mark-on-two-striped.html
Broken squiggly T	3	One wiggly horizontal stripe at the top above a vertical stripe at the bottom	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2016/07/reappearance-of-double-striped-orb.html
Hockey stick	2	A stripe with a shape resembling a hockey stick	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/another-hockey-stick-sky-orb.html
Backslash	4	Goes from one side of orb to another, diagonally. Looks like a backslash (not a slash)	http://orbpro.blogspot.com/2017/02/night-of-backslash-sky-orbs.html

Striped Orange Sky Orb Has Green Spots

Photo date: November 12, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed near a building in New York.

Below is a closeup. We see not only a vertical stripe, but also two strange green spots on the orb.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a level of 34. The pollen level listed on pollen.com was low, with a level of 0.4.

Striped Sky Orb With an Orange Aura

Photo date: November 10, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows a striped sky orb I photographed in New York City.  Note the strange orange aura around the orb.  This is the 175th mysterious striped orb I have photographed in dry air. See here for other photos of striped orbs.

The photo above was cropped from the larger photo below.

There was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation on this night. The air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good," with a level of 47. The pollen level listed on pollen.com was low, with a level of 0.8.