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Kate’s Escapades – The Case of the Mysterious Orbs!
This past Friday night I found myself in an unusual situation – home alone. My husband and sons had gone to Salt Lake to meet the cast of Nitro Circus, and to watch the premier of their new movie, Country Fried. My daughters had also gone to Salt Lake, but to a Regina Spektor concert. And I found myself wonderfully, gloriously home alone. So what did I do to fill this rare evening? I got a take-out Sticky Finger dinner from Wingers (seriously, that sauce is addicting. I think the secret ingredient is cocaine) and settled in to catch up on some reading (Catching Fire) and some recorded episodes of Project Runway and Top Model.
I discovered that when you suddenly find yourself surrounded by peace and quiet in a home which could more typically described as chaotic and loud, you start to notice unusual sounds…strange bumps and creaks and thumps. At first you just dismiss the sounds, but then when you keep hearing them your mind starts to play tricks on you and your imagination takes over. We joke in our house that we have a ghost who lives here – a little girl that we’ve named Evelyn. We blame all unusual sounds on her. Some of my daughters say they’ve seen her. I haven’t, but that thought rolls around in the back corners and crevices of my mind…
I was in this state of mind when my girls returned from their concert and showed me their pictures. (They always do post-concert photo shoots of themselves jumping, using a self timer on the camera. Makes for some pretty funny pics.)
Anyway, we were looking through the pics and noticed some strange lights in several of the photos.
Notice the large orb in the bottom left corner, and several other smaller ones scattered throughout the photo.
Check out that crazy bright orb on the right. of the photo
I was immediately intrigued so I downloaded the photos to Photo Shop to get a closer look.
Pretty weird, huh? I decided these mystery orbs warranted some computer research…and here’s what I’ve found.
Similar pics…
These photos were taken by a lady named Sharon Cross, and here’s what she has to say about them.
“I have studied these for many years, being a photographer and finding them in many photos, but only when certain situations arise. I have photos which are indisputable in my experience and estimation. Two things seem to be common for orbs to be present in the photos that I have taken: there are either many young people in the environment, or folks who have been ill or are currently ill or will pass away soon; the other is that they appear in my photos involving theater or performances. There is no dust on my camera lens or in the rooms since I am deathly allergic to dust and would be unable to breathe, let alone take a photo if the dust were that present. I have also zoomed in on the orbs and enlarged them to find the detail on the interiors of them. Just like snowflakes, there are no two that are alike and their colors are very significant also. So here are just two of the hundreds of orb photos I have.”
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Other photos with orbs shaped similar to ours.
At GhostStudy.com I found this definition of orbs. “Orbs have many names including globes, globules, balls of light, and hovering round balls. They appear in all ranges of brightness from bright-&-glowing to faded-&-barely-visible. They are usually quite fast and follow an erratic pattern of flight. Positive orbs are believed to be the spirits of the dead by many”
I also found this odd connection…a striking resemblance to the Nazca Lines in the Nazca Plains of Peru. “The Nazca Lines are an engima. No one has proof who built them or why. Since their discovery, the Nazca Lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization — putting the creation of the lines between 200 BC and 600 AD, used for rituals probably related to astronomy.”
“The reason for this is that the flash illuminates dust particles that are drifting very close to it. These reflect light back into the camera lens, but 
they are too close to be in focus. A lens sees an out-of-focus point of light as a ‘circle of confusion’, and the more out of focus it is, the larger the circle. It is the circle-of-confusion image on the film or digital photo that appears as an orb. When the flash is close to the lens, the cone of light that it puts out intersects with the conical-shaped coverage of the lens. This overlapping area is where dust particles (or airborne water droplets, tiny insects etc) will become ‘orbs’.”
So readers, what do YOU think? Do I have myself a real orb in these photos? Or reflected dust?
Do you have any orb photos you’d like to add to the debate? Send to lizandkate@live.com.
Just for fun…
~Kate
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I don’t have any orb pictures. Interesting observations about them.
hi ,like your self i have many photos of orbs,many like yours but some very diffrent ,i have studyed these for some time in and outside my home,and i no who they are,,,,,,,,and beleave it or not under the right light on a camra i can sea them moving all around me in a cluster,its outstanding activity,but it gets the respect it souly deserves,and always will,but wow and i mean wow.mail me and i will show you if intrested
Hi there Kate. I started googling pictures of orbs after my roommate brought them into discussion, and came across your page. Interesting observation on the Nazca lines.. My roommate said that orbs he’s seen appear to contain the ‘flower of life’ (do a google image search). I got goosebumps when I noticed how much the image of orb in your daughters picture is so strikingly similar to the Mayan calendar (also good image search)..
Thanks Jordan. The whole orbs thing is certainly intriguing. I’m still not sure what to think about them. I googled the ‘flower of life’. Wow, thank you for adding a whole new perspective. Thanks for stopping by.
I definitely believe orbs can be spirits, although of course they could be dust/water droplets as well. It just depends on the situation. Lately I’ve been finding many orbs in my pictures. In a prom picture of mine, there was a crystal-clear purple orb floating nearby. And in my graduation pictures, there were countless orbs hovering around me, and one of them was orange. They didn’t show up in pictures of anyone else. I believe there are spirits watching over me during huge events like this, and it gives me comfort.
Let’s not forget what all these pictures actually have in common, Sharon, a flash is being used. It is dust, and “as a photographer”, you should know this. By the way, flash stinks, avoid it whenever possible. It offers ugly lighting and sometimes obscures the image with out-of-focus dust particles.
These pictures still freak me out, especially that huge one that is on ryane’s face. It spears to be glowing kind of and the detail in it is creepy.
When I saw my first orb it was around christmas time in 2007, it was high above a house in the sky and it was huge. I put all the pictures on a cd and put them on my computer to look at and noticed other orbs in the distance and closer to the camera that were smaller and not so bright. I was zooming in on all of them noticing the colors, and just for the fun of it I started zooming in on the pinpoints of light in the night sky that I thought were stars. On one particular pinpoint of light I zoomed in and was amazed at what I was looking at– it appeared to look like a floating crown of lights with round portholes that resembled windows. I later saw it on the cover of a book called the sightings in Gulf Breeze , Florida, regarding unidentified flying objects. That was the closest thing that resembled what I was looking at. I was in shock, not knowing what the heck it was but open to all possibilities. Getting back to the orbs, the first time I saw them in the photos that I had taken they reminded me of the human egg (zygote). Maybe when we die we become an orb in the spiritual form and when it is time to be reborn we actually manifest ourselves into a physical orb hence the egg ( zygote). Maybe that’s how we go in and out of the spiritual & physical realms also known as reincarnation. Also, the crop circles all over the world have been filmed to show white balls of lights flying over the fields and leaving all kinds of intricate designs which shows high intelligence. There is video on you tube to show this—- it also shows a video comparing orbs to the human egg, but I only found one video on that subject. This to me, makes more sense then when we die we just die and there is nothing else. After all, we are made up of energy, and energy can be converted but not destroyed. Just wanted to share my thoughts- I love to hear everyone’s opinions, it’s very interesting!!
By the way—- if you go on youtube, you will see lots of crop circles that are images of the “Flower Of Life”—- Some of them are so intricate it BOGGLES THE MIND!!! Some are in 3D!! There is also one of an alien face (the greys) and a disk that is encrypted with a message that reads—- Beware the bearer of false gifts & broken promises—- Much pain but there is still time—- Believe- there is still good out there—- We oppose the deceivers—- The conduit is closing…….. You can look this up on youtube under “The two most important crop circles ever- No Joke!!”
Thats orb symbolizing with Brown Color its mean The Orb Conected to Earth Power and Silver Light Is mean The Orb Having a telekinetik Power.
We caught a very prominent bluish orb in a pic of my grand daughter just above and to the left of her head while playing in one of those bounce house places filled with children; in line with the comment in another post that they appear when there are many children present. We looked closer and noticed a couple other smaller orbs in the same picture. We tried and tried to capture others but were unsuccessful. we have not ever seen anything like this before; of course that might be because others were not so prominent. i will be glad to send you the picture if you are interested.
Hi there Kate,
There is a fantastic video out called ORBS – THE VEIL IS LIFTING which explains many of the key features of Orbs, including a scientist who has spent years investigating them, and trying to recreate the ‘dust’ effect. He says that whilst that can be done, it does not account for the myriad of photos that have orbs in them, when others do not that also have dust around. There are also orb pictures underwater – which clearly discounts the dust theory…
The evidence is that it is some kind of energy coming through where the veil between the energetic world is thinning, or our technology these days can simply catch it.
On experimentation, they appear when people are happy and enjoying themselves, but especially when there is music.
If you do Reiki, and try and manifest them in outdoor photos at night and with music, you’ll be surprised what you can bring up – but don’t despair if it takes a while – Orbs don’t appear just because you want oto photograph them…
Best of luck, and great website!
Enjoy
Roy
if they were dust we would have pix of them BEFORE digital photography; but we didnt’ .. and they leave spaces; not like dust; they are there and then not
there are lots of other postings and university professors who are equally fascinated by them.
so much research being done. books being written; no way is it all
‘dust’