An Orb With Five Stripes

 Photo date: November 2, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Inside it are five different stripes, all of the same width.

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. 

An Orb With Two Stripes

 Photo date: October 5, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb With a Shadow Stripe

Photo date: September 21, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. The background is a chest of drawers. 

Another photo from this day shows what looks like a green speeding orb:

Yet Another Orb With a J-Like Stripe

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

The similarity between this orb and an orb I photographed five days earlier is striking. The top of each stripe begins at exactly the same point, a little to the right of the top center point in the circle. Both orbs have a J-shaped shadow stripe. Could the J letter be symbolic? A J could stand for a person, or maybe the month of June or January. 

Another Orb With a J-Like Stripe

 Photo date: September 12, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. It has a J-like stripe resembling the J-like stripe of  8 other orbs shown in my post here, under the "The J-Like Pattern" section header. 

A Striped Orb

 Photo date: September 8, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

I have had some rather ominous-seeming indications recently. One was a dream a few days ago of a figure looking like Death personified: a figure with a black hat, all black clothes, a black cape, and a black mask covering his face. Then there was the dream I had last night of some person talking about my curtains. In English "curtains" is a slang term meaning death. In the dream the figure said, "You must take the design seriously," although he could have been saying "You must take the d. sign seriously," with "d. sign" meaning "death sign." Then this morning I saw that a green cloth bag had been blown into my backyard. It was a bag marked "Sam Ash music stores." Ashes are a death symbol, because many people are cremated.  This year the marking of "Sam Ash music stores" on the bag may be doubly-symbolic of death, because recently the Sam Ash chain of music stores "bit the dust," closing down, with apparently only an online business remaining. 

Baffling Bands

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Bright, With Two Features

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

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb With a Curved Stripe

 Photo date; May 9, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Orb With a Shadow Stripe Overlay

 Photo date: April 27, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.  We see a strange effect in which a shadow stripe appears as a kind of overlay on top of a curved line. 

Orb With a Shadow Stripe

 Photo date: February 10, 2024. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. It is one of many orbs I have photographed with a shadow stripe. You can see 50+ others by using the link here and continuing to press Older Posts at the bottom right. 

The Holes and the Shadow Stripes

 Photo date: December 23, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.   

I took the photos below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. On this day I got (in almost all of 1500+ consecutive photos) orbs with a large hole at the bottom.  There also irregularly appeared strange stripes consisting of multiple parallel lines. Below are some examples.

Below we see closeups of the short stripes on three of these orbs. We can see that each stripe consists of multiple parallel lines. 

Recurring Dry Air Pattern Number 40

 Below is the latest of forty repeating patterns I have got while photographing in clean dry air (see here for the other 39). 

Striped Orbs

 Photo date: October 25, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

Below we see two mysterious striped orbs I photographed. See here for 800 such mysterious striped orbs. 

Never So Striped, Part 2

Photo date: October 13, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.  

I took the photos below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background.  On this day I got a staggering phenomenon that persisted for many consecutive photos: orbs with many stripes. My photos showed two things I can never recall seeing before:  an alignment of the stripes in different orbs (shown in Part 1 of this post), and a weird anomaly in which streaks of orange light seemed to come out of orbs.  The first three photos show the second of these anomalies.