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[L6steel]

I took this picture with my digital camera after hurricane Ivan when the power was out. With no artificial light it is amazing how many more stars and such you can see in the sky.
Here's the pic.

Week or two later I loaded the pic onto my pc and looked at it and thought how nice, and scanned across it and saw something odd lookin. I blew it up a little. This is what was in the pic, no fiddlin with or fixin up or anything.

I knew digital cameras were good but I didn't know they were that good!
There's also some red dots in the pic and some light balls that make no sense to me. Personally I don't believe in little green men visiting us from far away worlds but the stuff in this pic sure is odd.

 

[Doug C]

I've called David Duchovney.

 

[Thomason]

Very odd.

 

[Ming65]

OK let me preface this by saying I have some very interesting friends.

The appearance of circular balls of light in digital photographs is all the rage in several spiritual communities. Many people believe them to be manifestations of conscious entities.

Check out this site

www.orbsite.com

I tend to stay open about all this stuff untill I see compelling eveidence either way. I'm yet to be pursuaded one way or the other by the cynics or the believers on this one yet. I do know that they aren't lens flare (although some actual lens flare can look orb like), snowballs or raindrops

I was with some friends the other night and using the same camara, same settings, same fixed position, we did get different 'orbs' in the photograph depending on what people were focussing on. That's right, I satisfied myself over several hours of non chemically enhanced digital photo taking that different people could create the presence of certain orbs just by being either in the photograph or next to me while I was taking it.

If you have a more recent high megapixel camera you have to take the photo in RAW, or TIFF format with noise reduction off, or the in-camera algorithm with smooth the orbs out.

Of course there are all manner of spiritual mumbo jumbo nutcases claiming all kinds of fantasic stuff about these things - and the way that they design their websites doen't help.

Me? I'm not sure but it was certainly an interesting night...........

 

[basknives]

Ummmm........isn't that a mailbox in the top left of the first picture?

 

[FoxholeAtheist]

Most orbs that I've seen are readily explained by dust in the air reflecting light (often a flash) back at the camera.

Others are snow, rain, etc.