People seeing things with their eyes that they cannot explain is a common experience, much more common than the average person realizes. For example, a scientific study of apparition sightings by widows attempted to interview all of the widows or widowers in a small area of Wales. It found that 14% of widows or widowers reported seeing an apparition of their deceased spouse, with 39% reporting feeling a presence of their deceased spouse, and 13% hearing their deceased spouse. Then there are people who report seeing with their own eyes mysterious orbs.
Mysterious orbs mainly show up in photographs, as if they were fleeting manifestations appearing too quickly to be seen with the naked eye. Orbs of many colors have showed up countless times in my photos, in which there have been almost 1500 mysterious blue orbs, and more than 800 mysterious striped orbs. For example, below is a photo I took showing two mysterious striped orbs, one orange:
But in many cases people will report seeing a mysterious orb with the naked eye. Let's look at some of the very many such cases I have collected.
The site www.nderf.org and the site www.iands.org are two of the main sites presenting accounts of near-death experiences. Looking at some of the most recent accounts at the first of these sites, I quickly found the account below:
"This is about my wife, Vera Gonzalez, who passed on May 7th, 2016, and the attending physician assistant/NP-C and I witnessed a light orb leave her body within minutes of dying. A concentrated white orb-light came out of her chest through the sternum, rose and hovered momentarily and then departed the room while accelerating. I thought I was imagining things until the physician assistant asked me if I saw the light. He said he had seen it before and that it was Vera's spirit."
The book Beyond the Impossible is a fascinating read about mysteries of the unknown, told in chronological order. On one page we read this:
"Glowing spheres have startled many travellers along the lonely stretches of road that criss-cross the vast expanse of Alexandria Station....Mysteriologists have uncovered several locations around the world where balls of light variously labelled will-o-the-wisps, ghost lights or spook lights, are regularly seen....The most famous examples are probably the American varieties, the Saratoga and Marfa lights of Texas, the Brown Mountain lights and Maco lights of North Carolina, and the Hornet spook lights of Missouri."
On the page here we read that some of these "ghost lights" are associated with reports of ghost sightings. I was surprised to read of a "Spook Light Road" near Neosho, Missouri, where my late grandmother lived most of her life. On the page here we read this account:
"In November 1977, a married couple climbing Mount Snezka...lost their way and found themselves in serious difficulties when it began to snow heavily. Realising their position was becoming serious the two climbers were suddenly confronted by a large blue globe which floated several feet off the ground, shining with a clear, warm light."
We are told the strange globe guided the two to safety. At the page here we read this:
"Bobbing and bouncing along a dirt road in northeast Oklahoma is the Hornet Spook Light, a paranormal enigma for more than a century. Described most often as an orange ball of light, the orb travels from east to west along a four-mile gravel road."
In the video here, a young PhD candidate describes a near-death experience during a very severe medical problem. Around the 2:55 mark, she describes encountering three colored orbs that seemed to her like guardian angels, having colors of ruby, amethyst (purple) and emerald. It's quite an astonishing tale.
At this link you can read "Immortality Proved by the Testimony of Sense" by Abraham Cummings, which has some astonishing testimony. On page 38 Cumming gives the following story of an orb "in the air" turning into the form of a woman:
"Sometime in July, 1806, in the evening, I was informed by two persons that they had just seen the Spectre in the field. About ten minutes after, I went out, not to see a miracle, for I believed that they had been mistaken. Looking toward an eminence, twelve rods distance from the house, I saw there, as I supposed, one of the white rocks. This continued my opinion of their spectre, and I paid no more attention to it. Three minutes after, I accidentally looked in the same direction, and the white rock was in the air ; its form a complete Globe, white with a tincture of red, like the damask rose, and its diameter about two feet. Fully satisfied that this was nothing ordinary, I went toward it for more accurate examination. While my eye was constantly upon it, I went on four or five steps, when it came to me from the distance of eleven rods, as quick as lightning, and instantly assumed a personal form with a female dress, but did not appear taller than a girl seven years old. While I looked upon her, I said in my mind, 'you are no tall enough for the woman who has so frequently appeared among us.' Immediately she grew up as large and as tall as I considered that woman to be. Now she appeared glorious. On her head was the representation of the sun diffusing the luminous, rectilinear rays every way to the ground."
Many of the testimonies in this case are dated, particularly following page 41, where we have dated witness statements from quite a few people who give their names. On page 31 we read this summary about the same apparition:
"Sometimes she appeared to two or three ; then to five or six ; then to ten or twelve ; again to twenty, and once to more than forty witnesses. She appeared in several apartments of Mr. Blaisdel’s house, and several times in the cellar. She also appeared at other houses, and several times in the open field, as already observed. There, white as the light, she moved like a cloud above the ground in personal form and magnitude, in the presence of more than forty people. She tarried with them till after day-light, and vanished : not because she was afraid of the sun : for she had then several times appeared when the sun was shining."
At the site Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone, there is a very long post on recent sightings of UFOs and other anomalies. We read this:
"The year 2022 will be remembered, however, for the unprecedented increase of reports of low level encounters with mini-UFOs- those small orbs or balls of light reported close to the ground, or on the ground, and in some cases approaching within feet of witnesses....Over the years, I have interviewed numerous witnesses and I have received information from widespread areas on cases concerning observations of these smaller objects on the ground or just above the ground. These objects have ranged in size from a few inches to about a foot or two in diameter. They are often described to be about golf ball to baseball size. The shape is commonly spherical. However, other configurations have been reported. These objects often are light sources of various colors. They sometimes look solid, while in other cases they look transparent or translucent. There have also been some reports of a swirling mass inside of the sphere. There have been other encounters where these objects appeared to be made of metal. For many years, there have been encounters with these objects pacing vehicles and entering them through open windows. There have been other cases of these objects also entering homes through open windows or hovering in front of windows and even tapping on the panes".
On page 109 of the 2007 book Ghost Worlds, Melba Goodwyn states this:
"My first experience with orb phenomena came at the age of twelve...Suddenly, from seemingly out of nowhere, a huge orange sphere appeared before me. It was a little above my direct sight and as large as a big beach ball. It was pulsating and its very distinct color would fade and deepen in intensity as I watched it....I was astonished as it gently floated right through my midsection! I gasped as I felt it pass through my body...Deep down I knew that I had experienced a spiritual visitation of some sort."
My Facebook page "Spirit Orbs" now has over 2000 followers, and consists only of photos I took myself. You can see the photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/GhostlyAppearances/photos_stream
Replying to a recent album I published at that site, one Facebook user states this: "An orange orb entered my room and turned my whole room orange. I'll never forget it."
A book offering some startling evidence for the paranormal is the book "Materialisations-Experimente mit M. Franek-Kluski" by Gustave Geley and Albert von Schrenck-Notzing M.D. The title can be translated as "Materialization Experiments with M. Franek-Kluski." The book is in German, but with the help of Google Translate it is fairly easy to get an English translation of any page.
On page 58 we have this remarkable account, which may be of great interest to anyone getting mysterious orbs in photos:
"I asked him if he could see my sister in the 'Astral' who has been dead for 3 years. Answer: Yes. At the same moment I felt a woman's hand gently placed on my forehead, making the sign of the cross there and encircling it with a circle, as my sister always did when she was alive when she said goodbye to me. I recognized her hand, dimly lit, against the edge of the fluorescent screen that lay on the table in front of me. It moved several times before my eyes, and more and more I thought I recognized it. She squeezed my hand, patted my face. I can no longer doubt that it is her hand that I feel. A short time later a glowing orb forms in front of my face and moves away; then she comes very close to my face and to my great astonishment and also to my great joy I notice the fully recognizable facial features of my sister, who smiles at me as in real life. However, she seems much younger to me, about the way she was when she was 25. She died at the age of 54. The upper part of the head is surrounded by cloudy veils."
Was the idea here that the orb turned into an apparition of the narrator's sister? It is hard to tell whether that was seen or whether the orb was a kind of harbinger of such an appearance.
At www.archive.org, readers who have done the free registration with the site can read the very interesting book Miracles: A Parascientific Inquiry Into Wondrous Phenomena by D. Scott Rogo, who died an untimely death at the age of only 40. On page 227 Rogo describes events of September 13, 1917 at Fatima, Portugal, a month before the more famous October 13, 1917 event involving a disk-like sky anomaly. We read this account of September 13, 1917:
"The sun began to dim mysteriously around noon, stars could be seen in the sky, and an orb of white light appeared and settled in the tree. One of the witnesses was Monsignor John Quareman....He was one of many observers who actually saw the mysterious orb of light that had often appeared when Lucia claimed the apparition was arriving at the oak tree. 'To my surprise,' he later testified, 'I saw clearly and distinctly a globe of light advancing from east to west, gliding slowly and majestically through the air.' "
On page 106 of the same book we read this about someone having out-of-body experiences (OBEs): "Blue Harary usually perceives himself as an orb of light or as a speck of awareness free-floating while undergoing his OBEs." On page 209 we read this:
"Maximin Giraud (age eleven) and Melanie Mathieu (age fifteen) were playing when suddenly they saw a large orb of glowing light approaching them from the heavens. As it neared a small stream bed, it opened to reveal the figure of a beautiful woman."
Rogo's research work with Blue Harary (Stuart Blue Harary) is described in Chapter 8 of his book Mind Beyond the Body: The Mystery of ESP Projection, which can be read here.
A web site documenting reports of the paranormal tells us "encounters with small spheres low to the ground and in some cases approaching near witnesses have reportedly been taking place for months from various areas of Pennsylvania." The site's latest report on orbs is entitled "More Mysterious Close Encounters with Ground Level Orbs of light (Mini-UFOs) Reported In Pennsylvania-October 23, 2022." One witness says he saw a "glowing white ball of light" outdoors 10-12 inches in diameter, and another witness reports seeing indoors a strange blue sphere about a foot and a half in diameter.
A poll by YouGovAmerica surveyed 1000 Americans about any paranormal experiences they may have had. More than two-thirds reported having some type of paranormal experience. Some of the most common experiences were:
"Feeling a presence or unknown energy": 37%
"Hearing a voice of someone who wasn't there": 29%
"Feeling an unexplained change in temperature": 28%
"Seeing lights or other devices turn on or off without explanation": 25%
"Seeing an object move without explanation": 22%
"Seeing unexplained orbs of light": 22%
"Seeing a door open or close without explanation": 20%
"Seeing a ghost or spirit": 20%
"Seeing an angel": 13%
The page describing the poll gives one interesting bit of testimony from one of the people polled:
"I was in a 100-year-old hotel in Brazil with abandoned floors that were accessible. As my friend and I explored, the temperature dropped and we saw orbs of light."
In his "Mysterious Universe" post "Strange Lights in the Sky: Secret Experiments or Living Beings?" Nick Redfern discusses some visual sightings of orbs:
"It didn’t appear to be a solid, nuts-and-bolts aircraft of some sort. Rather, it was a ball of light, around five times the size of an average traffic light...He could only sit and stare as the pair of lights bobbed in the air, like floating beach-balls. Suddenly, there was a development; an astounding one. As Angelucci looked on, a voice emanated from one of the balls....Running through the heart of the Big Thicket is a long, thin, and incredibly sandy old road called Bragg Road. That’s not what the locals call it, though. To them, it is known as Ghost Light Road. There is a very good reason for this: for at least three centuries, people have reported seeing weird, small balls of light flitting through the trees late at night. But, we’re not talking about anything quite as down to earth as fireflies. These particular lights vary in size from – approximately – a tennis ball to a beach ball. They also exhibit evidence of intelligence: witnesses describe the lights approaching them, even circling them, in what is occasionally perceived as a playful fashion."
The strangest part of the article is below:
"A small body of individuals have sworn that the large cats and the hairy humanoids – when spotted by the astonished and sometimes terrified onlookers – vanished before their eyes. We’re not talking about them making hasty getaways into the woods. Rather, we are talking about the 'animals' – in an instant – changing form from big cat and Bigfoot to a small, brightly-lit globe of light."
On the page here we have this headline: "UFO Activity Ongoing in Pennsylvania- Encounters with Small Spheres of Light Close to the Ground Increasing-August 13, 2022." We read the following:
"What I consider to be even more fascinating are the increase in reports of smaller generally spherical objects that are low to the ground and reportedly have been approaching within feet of witnesses in some cases. These encounters with mini-UFOs as I have called them for many years, are taking place in daylight as well as during the night."
The author reports that the objects range in size from a few inches to about a foot or two in diameter. He says, "In some cases, the objects appear to be solid metal, however most witnesses describe these objects as luminous globes of various colors."
Page 194 of the Volume 2 of Phantasms of the Living tells us this:
"In another, a luminous ball was seen in a corner of the room. A fourth very remarkable instance, of the brilliant illumination and then sudden darkening of an empty room, is described to us by the Rev. Edward Ram, of Norwich, as a personal experience of himself and his wife — but this was in a house where other unaccountable phenomena have been observed ; as was also the case in a fifth instance, where a light is described by one percipient, Mrs. W. B. Richmond, as a glow over the whole room, out of which (according to her recollection) two bright little balls of light seemed to flash out ; and by the other (her mother) as ' flickering about' specially in a particular part of the room. In none of these cases does it seem possible that the light was in any way cast or reflected into the room from outside."
I have very many additional accounts of this type, which I will include (over the next 12 days) in a Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this series, each of which will be as long as this post. There are many cases of mysterious orbs seen during thunderstorms or lightning storms and called "ball lightning." But none of the cases I have cited or will cite in this series are orbs seen during thunderstorms or lightning storms. Some papers reporting the sightings of mysterious orbs outside of thunderstorms or lightning storms will use the term "ball lightning," but such a term seems to be inappropriate whenever neither thunder nor normal lightning is observed. An example is the paper "Ball Lightning and Strange Phenomena in the Po Plain Valley (Near Rovigo, Italy)." We read that for "many years" a scientific research group has reported seeing two types of light phenomena: (1) bubbles of yellow-orange light about two meters in diameter, and (2) red floating spheres about two meters wide, lasting between seconds and minutes. There is no claim that such things were observed only or mainly during lightning storms or thunderstorms, and only in one case was the group able to pick up an anomalous electrical reading. The authors resort to implausible speculating about a "possible relationship with lunar cycles" and that "the Anomalous Luminous phenomena in the Po Valley may be related to tectonic activity."
A scientific paper entitled "The Ball Lightning Controversy – Empirical Case Studies " states this:
"The main observational and object parameters of six national BL [ball lightning] datasets show more similarities than differences. Although their BL data come from places 3,000 km distant with different climatic conditions, basic features like thunderstorm association, duration, distance from observer, size, color and brightness form a cluster with defined range. One out of three BL events happen indoors with a wide spectrum of possible object relations. 30-50% of the objects terminate with an audible explosion."
There is no basis for calling mysterious transparent or glowing balls observed indoors "ball lightning." Lightning is not an indoor phenomena. It would seem that the author quoted above is conflating different phenomena, trying to call diverse types of phenomena "ball lightning." None of the very many reports that I cite in this four-part series will be reports of something terminating with an explosion or reports of something occurring during thunder storms or lightning storms. Below is a flowchart giving a reasonable algorithm to follow in classifying such reports of mysterious ball-shaped phenomena:
A page in The Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena describes a red orb passing through a closed window. We hear no mention of a thunder storm or lightning storm:
"In the summer of 1960, as Louise Matthews of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lay on her living room couch, she looked up to see a huge red ball coming through a window and the Venetian blinds, both closed and neither damaged in any way by the object's passage. When the ball, which was making a sizzling sound, passed by her, Mrs. Matthews felt a tingling on the back of her neck...The ball went through the living room and into the dining room, exiting -- again without damage -- through a closed window. She called her husband, who came home from work to find the back of her hand burned. The hair at the back of the head fell out, leaving the skin there as smooth as that in the front of her face."
Was this ball lightning? Lightning is electricity, and glass is an electrical insulator, not a conductor. Glass stops electricity, just as rubber does. The rule about lightning and glass is that lightning will only pass through a closed window if it shatters the glass. So it would seem to make no sense to call such a sighting ball lightning.
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