Spherical (orb-like) UFO's

I was going through some digital photographs in March that I had taken in August of 2006 on a ferry run from Edmonds to Kingston to visit some friends over on the peninsula.

They were somewhat drab and I was touching them up a bit in PaintShop Pro, using a feature called "clarify" which increases contrast in low contrast portions of the photograph. It is useful for bringing out cloud details in the sky and making the sky look more dramatic.

I noticed after doing this an orb like object in the sky, spherical. It was very close to the color and brightness of the sky and went unnoticed until after contrast enhancement because of this.



That was on a friday in late March, the following monday I photographed a similar object at Richmond Beach again to the north. I didn't know it at the time, I was just taking photos of the beach and water and surrounding areas, and didn't see it until I got home and downloaded and started processing.

www.eskimo.com...

The photos I took in March were near sunset and so the sky had taken on an orange color in the region photographed. These are cut-outs from the original photographs.

I posted these on my ET blog at www.eskimo.com...
see the March archive for these photos as well as the originals they were cut-out of.

A lady from Surrey BC contacted me and said that she'd been photographing similar objects north of Surrey BC Canada. During the day they are hard to see without contrast enhancement, as with the objects I photographed, but she has a camera with night infrared capability, and photographed at night that way they stand out very bright in the infrared.

It occurs to me that as stealthy as these objects are, our skies might be loaded with them but they go unnoticed. If so to what ends?

I am trying to gather data now, alert people to the existence of these and how they can be seen, to find out how common they are.

Take photos with your digital camera set on the lowest ISO setting (minimize noise otherwise low contrast of these will be swamped by noise), and the highest resolution, then enhance contrast with an editor such as PaintShop or PhotoShop.

I have only photographed these twice here on clear days (which are rare in the Seattle vicinity), so I don't know if they are above the cloud deck on cloudy days or if they were only present on those days. Still trying to gather more data.

[edit on 4/17/2007 by Nookster]

[edit on 4/17/2007 by Nookster]

Nice shots of the classic single-orb phenomenon.

There are lots of theories and no real universally accepted explanation that encompasses every sighting of this genre. Some sightings are amazing and others less so. Houston BC and it's general surrounding area seem to be a super hotspot for this particular (and other) type of sightings.

I semi-sorta-kinda surmise (although not my favorite area - I'm a "large orange-sphere hunter") that there may be several and perhaps more "answers".

Some will be entirely explainable as "conventional", others I've seen on video and in photos do lead to "unconventional" possibilities when taken in context with anecodotal corroborative evidence.

Proof? Nothing conclusive. It is a "real" phenomenon often associated to other phenomenon like crop circles and geo-magnetic and atmospheric disturbances and those accursed foil ballons.

I was recently reading a Canadian 2006 report on various sightings and I was surprised how many are catalogued with an index entry that matches the general description.

You are not alone in your curiousity. This is one of the most reported phenomenon. ATS has perhaps one of the largest collection of threads connected to, and reflective of, this very specific subject. Key "Orb" into the ATS onboard search and I think you will find hundreds of interesting "jump-off" points for your research.

Cheers,

Vic

[edit on 17-4-2007 by V Kaminski]

At this point, I've now photographed these objects three times, once I got six of them in one image together from Juanita Beach.



The orange color in the one I posted earlier, I don't think it's intrinsic to the color of the objects, they just reflect whatever is around them.

These are now showing up in Google Maps satellite images as well, I've corresponded with someone in Surrey BC that has photographed them and someone in Portland, OR that has video taped them.

Spend some time Google searching and you'll find these are all over the place. Also, if you see good up close shots you'll see that they have a spherical object that has a fairly definitive outline surrounded by a semi-transparent blurred region. This seems to be an intrinsic part of their nature not just an artifact. The person in BC has looked at them through a telescope and she says they are blurry in the telescope, in the Google photos they are blurry even though other things in the picture are clear with a much smaller detail.

It seems difficult for me to believe that our military isn't aware of something a civilian has photographed three times, and if they are aware they don't seem to be doing much about it or sharing with us what is happening.

It looks like dust in the camera lens exspecially the formation shots.