I’m hoping this isn’t too much info to dump at once, and it’s not too annoying to look through. Well, here goes…
I periodically see posts and footage about orb UFOs, but rarely do I see people “connecting the dots” between sightings, explicitly describing patterns of appearance and behavior. I think one of the issues with orbs is they have a very nondescript appearance and can easily be conflated with mundane phenomena like flares, flying lanterns, drones, aircraft, and balloons. Due to this, a single sighting of an orb(s) rarely draws much attention to itself as something unambiguously interesting. But when many sightings are compiled, patterns emerge that I believe separate out an anomalous phenomenon from prosaic phenomena.
With this post, I’m hoping to bring attention to the patterns of appearance and behavior I have been noticing through active research on the topic. It could be there are some examples of prosaic things I have misidentified as anomalous. I have tried to exclude instances of this, but sometimes it just comes with the territory of not having enough information to say for sure what something is. Some of it I’m more confident in, some of it less. You can be the judge for yourself whether this all connects together nicely.
I just wanted to start with AARO’s UAP Reporting Trends infographic from the 2023 report. They report the most common UAP is round, 1-4 meter size, white/silver/translucent, no detected thermal exhaust, intermittent 1-12GHz radio frequency radiation, and intermittent thermal radiation.
https://i.imgur.com/AOIRcgO.png
I’ve been debating how best to show the footage. I think short montages of clips that show the same patterns between clips is probably the best/quickest way to get a sense for the phenomenon. I will link montages, but also link some extended clips if you want to dig into the details and get more context. I may not link all the clips I have, so if you want to see a particular clip in its entirety and it’s not linked, let me know. I started uploading the clips and montages to an X account of mine, because I wanted to make sure they were in a centralized place where I have some control of what happens to the clips (i.e. I want to make sure uploaders of the clips don’t randomly delete footage linked here). So, some of the clips (the montages in particular) will be on my account. Others I’ll link directly to the source.
Illuminated transition:
I will start with the following montage I dub “illuminated transition”. Usually the orbs are seen either illuminated or not illuminated. It’s rare to capture them during a transition. The transition is interesting, especially in the first clip, because it’s apparent there is a plasma “shell” around the dark object within. I don’t know of any airborne technologies that display this. I’ll just speculate the object must be creating an intense field of some kind, which is ionizing the surrounding air, creating a glowing plasma around the object. Also note how the last bit of plasma to dissipate is at the bottom portion of the object. This is a consistent pattern when these objects are caught on video dissipating the plasma. I wonder if remnant field near the bottom is used to counteract gravitational pull and maintain altitude.
Montage:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1784694406253003182
Extended length clips from montage:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783676337703551358
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783677471340069033
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783679774507872467
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783680683078013141
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783681607489978793
The below was not in the montage, not as close up as the others, but is interesting on its own:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783688801635754214
Admittedly, sky lanterns look very similar to these orbs. However, sky lanterns tend to have a more diffuse glow through a relatively large volume containing the hot air. The illuminated portion is usually contained within the circumference of the larger glowing hot air chamber. The orbs show the opposite – the illuminated shell seems to be a larger circumference around the smaller opaque dark object within. And the intensity of the light is greater. Here are some examples of known sky lanterns in different styles and lighting conditions. There are of course similarities, but none quite a match the orbs.
https://i.imgur.com/e7DNpEU.png
Typical Nighttime sightings:
The next series of clips show what the orbs usually look like when caught on video at night. They usually have an intense orange or white glow and are often seen in groups. A common grouping is 3x in a triangle arrangement (in contrast with a line of 3x). Patrick Jackson created the below montage – I just clipped it down a bit:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1784666872123715943
Patrick Jackson has been researching the orbs and has come up with his own theory on their operation (the “T1”, “T2”, “T3” identifiers in the video feed into this). I’m not sure I agree with everything he says, but I do agree he has identified patterns of their arrangements in the sky.
Patrick Jackson’s pinned post on the orb arrangements:
https://twitter.com/PatrickQJackson/status/1691397477943959552
Here’s some other clips of the orbs seen at night or dusk:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783683828831158481
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783684860210561410
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783687523136356659
https://i.imgur.com/L1seAWY.mp4
Typical Daytime sightings:
During daytime, they are most often seen as cloud-colored spheres or with a slight orange glow. When they appear like this, I believe they are still illuminated with the plasma around them, but the brightness is about the same intensity as clouds reflecting sunlight.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1784683344094957628
Without plasma:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1785113396964176304
Extended clips:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783689839612690827
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvZwktsslc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BedOE5neMUo
https://twitter.com/i/status/1744814669875834985
https://twitter.com/i/status/1482145078005010433
There’s a few clips I’ve seen where orbs are behaving erratically under storm clouds. I can’t help but think they must operate with a powerful electric or magnetic field and the field interacts with the erratic thunderstorm field. Below is one, I can’t find the others I saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5MGyM1taQ
Here’s a clip of the orbs looking like this near a NASA launch/landing, with a NASA official admitting they see the orbs all the time and “chase” them (but never figure out what they are).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1784686710384730418
Flickering behavior:
Another behavior that can sometimes be seen when the plasma shell is gone is a dim irregular/erratic flicker. This is an interesting behavior because I don’t know of any common prosaic objects in the sky that do this. It’s not that electronic indicators can’t physically do it, it’s that it’s not common. Electronic timing circuitry used to flash aircraft or drone lights usually have relatively precise intervals of on/off. It’s just standard electronic timing behavior to have consistent length pulses of on/off. This irregular flickering can be used as another signature of the orbs to distinguish them from prosaic flashing lights in the sky.
The clips below will be used to connect the flickering behavior to the already established orange glow behavior. We can infer the same type of object is responsible for both behaviors.
This is from NUFORC case 178113 (notable it’s filmed in South Korea)
https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=178113
Another clip that displays both behaviors (also seen in the nighttime montage). I think greater exposure settings on the camera leads to the greater apparent light intensity relative to the other clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIIIMz478Q
More examples of just the flickering behavior below. Note in the first clip there is an explosive release of energy. This is the only clip where I’ve seen explosive releases of energy from the objects.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1784709066121453640
https://twitter.com/i/status/1778808638582260138
The Ranger H case:
Ranger H is a user on Twitter/X. He lives in a very rural area of Georgia. He has been seeing the orbs (and other anomalous activity) for over a decade near and sometimes on his property. To capture what he sees in the area, he built a camera tower and claims to have ~100 cameras on the tower and around the property. It doesn’t take much more explanation to see why this is an interesting source of evidence on the orbs. Ranger has some wild claims about close encounters which I will not include here (you can go read for yourself). I’ll just say I don’t have much reason to doubt his claims, given what he captures on video and the connection to the broader picture. He has been deeply psychologically impacted by what he has seen and can sometimes come across as “out there”. I don’t really hold that against him, but others seem to at times. That said, there are occasionally things he posts that I don’t agree are anomalous (but usually he’s pretty consistent putting out what I would call “legit stuff”).
https://twitter.com/RangerH338
Here’s his most famous footage of an up close orb. Note the irregular flashing/flicker it sometimes gives off:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1676168443601768453
This footage displays both the flickering behavior and the plasma glow behavior. Note this is not in true color (black and white night vision I think). Some really intense glowing behavior happens near the end of the video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1714224978403438825
Starting at 1:32, here is a bizarre behavior where it looks like the objects are either skipping through space or moving through space but flickering colors (plasma?) in a way that makes it looking like its skipping:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1715910157656359399
He’s got a lot more great footage and anecdotal stories if you want to look around his page. The above are just major pieces of evidence that tie into this post.
Side by side examples that show similar movement:
I just wanted to include this side-by-side comparison of orb-shaped objects showing similar undershoot behavior. In both cases, an orb approaches a target of interest and makes an altitude adjustment (with an apparent undershoot control correction) to get closer. The right clip is from Ranger H when he said orbs were roaming around his property and checking out his house. The left clip is from a professional filming of the first commercial Concord flight. Very similar movements, including the lateral movement after undershoot correction.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783692273521135948
Chris Bledsoe and other rural sightings:
You may have heard about Chris Bledsoe, the guy that supposedly can mentally “call” orbs to him. Those objects Chris sees appear like they could be the same orb objects.
Orbs flickering over ocean or lake:
https://www.instagram.com/christopherlentzbledsoe/reel/C5hedBXLS0x/
Orbs moving through woods. It’s my intuition that groups of orbs often have resting/congregation spots in rural areas. It seems like these areas would be good for concealment while awaiting the next trigger/signal.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1785066992354881839
Chris captures a lot of stuff on video. Check out his instagram if you want to see more. I can’t really confirm or deny everything he posts is related to the orbs of this post, but certainly much of it seems to fit in.
https://www.instagram.com/christopherlentzbledsoe
Back to Ranger H’s footage that I already linked, but I just wanted to draw attention to the flicker on the ground in the middle of the screen (throughout the whole video), where ground meets horizon. There seems to be an orb resting on the ground among the bushes and trees.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1715910157656359399
The orbs are interested in flying technologies, nuclear sites, military bases, and conflict zones:
Basically, the orbs seem to be interested in advanced technology and activity that deviates from the norm. It makes sense – you might want your recon drones on a primitive alien planet to monitor the technological progress of the natives there.
You already saw a sort clip of an orb checking out the Concord jet. Here’s the full clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqbeQYVcwk
There appear to be lots of sightings of round objects flying near planes:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1552275022739394561
When I first started seeing footage of these near aircraft, I thought it was just coincidence and that maybe they are just balloons or birds. But it was just too often that I was seeing it, and they sometimes appear to curve towards the aircraft with intent. Maybe it’s false positives, but I’ll add some clips anyways.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1614342546850734080
https://twitter.com/i/status/1771037088651076014
https://twitter.com/i/status/1528191720445337601
You may have seen the recent Airforce One clip:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1739723528784724156
Nuclear and military sites sometimes report glowing orange orbs.
I don’t like History Channel, as they push a bunch of obvious BS. But they did do an interview with a lieutenant at a Minuteman nuclear silo that reported a UFO incident in the 1970s. He reports red-orange pulsating lights which I felt might be consistent with the orbs.
https://youtu.be/54_bxf7n3Oo?si=_KhvvO2DnCgKf85j&t=403
There was some UFO media rounds around the time of Fukushima. I think some fake footage was mixed in with real. In any case, it looks like those orb clusters again as seen in the “Daytime” section.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp6ldpt6rKQ
[Conflict zone] I’ll have to come back to “conflict zone” section. I heard an anecdote of soldiers stationed in Iraq that experienced orange orbs following them in a conflict zone. I’ll try to find that.
Metallic or Black Sphere Appearance:
This section is a bit difficult to be confident in patterns and their relation to the other content above. Either these are different phenomenon (maybe some are mundane), or the orbs can change appearance. I haven’t been able to find video evidence of orbs changing apparent material composition on video. Ranger H does mention frequently the orbs he sees do not have a static look to them. That they can look metal at times, but that they can change shapes and apparent composition.
From my own investigation, I’ve only been able to find black spheres associated with the plasma glow. You can go back to the “illuminated transition” section to see for yourself. Otherwise, I’ve just found footage of metal spheres or black spheres on their own without being able to directly link them to the glowing or flickering behavior. I suspect these are part of the same phenomenon due to Ranger H’s footage, but have yet to find direct footage evidence.
Here are some interesting clips like that:
The infamous Mosul orb from the AARO report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6qTR_Lxe1Q
Could be a balloon, but the very straight parallel flight path is odd and consistent with orb movements seen elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRFAWOszrzM
Another odd metallic one on a bizarrely straight flight path:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgCVlqJuW2k
Black sphere with obvious acceleration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeETM-01P8
This one I also find odd, the way it bobs up and down. Could be a prank, but its behavior somewhat fits in with the undershoot footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VduCXrKxmF8
https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/13ievul/in_2002_a_man_named_vasily_goloschapov_filmed_a/ (stabilized version)
One over a body of water: https://twitter.com/i/status/1627282495334133765
Miscellaneous Section.
Just wanted to create a section of evidence that I think is the orbs, but that don’t fit easily into the existing sections of this post.
I’m not sure what to make of this video – it’s almost too good to be true in terms the orb getting caught in a tree and electrically messing with street lights. It’s what you would expect if the orbs really did output strong electric or magnetic fields. Too bad the video quality is so poor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o5pwK_gzCE
I’ll probably add onto this section through edits.
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