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String of Pearls Orbs Because of the difficulty we have distinguishing a genuine appearance of an
etheric entity from light reflected off of a particle in the air in orb photographs,
we have been reluctant to consider orb pictures at all. This is not to say that
we do not believe that some orb pictures are evidence of etheric entities. We
simply have no way of examining them that might add value. However, in the case
of pictures of moving orbs, we find several possible characteristics that can be
studied and that assure us that they are not light reflecting from dust.
In the two examples below, you will see what we refer to as "String of
Pearls" orbs. They can be distinguished from points of light, that have
been "smeared" into a line of light by a moving camera, by their sinusoidal
pulsing that causes the "String of Pearls" effect.
The proposed explanations for the "string of pearls" effect are:
- That the moving orb is actually a spider web reflecting light from the
flash. As it happens, spider web is apparently extruded in pulses, producing
what does reflect light in a string of pearls fashion.
- The String of pearls are caused by camera flash reflecting from human hair
that happens to be in the view of the camera lens. We recently had one visitor
send us this possibility, saying that she has often photographed her hair by
accident and that the results were exactly as is shown below.
- The moving orbs are not physical, but are more "etheric" in nature, and
may be the luminous etheric body of a discarnate person.
- The moving orbs are, indeed, etheric, but instead of being discarnate
entities, they are etheric critters, much like the flying insects of our
realm. As such, they may be attracted to the emanation of emotion.
We are looking for more examples of this type of photographic phenomena with
the hope that we will be able to establish a statistical pattern, from which
existing hypotheses can be tested or new ones defined. Please send us your
examples, along with an explanation of how the photograph was taken and
permission to use the picture in our study. We may use the picture on this web
site, in the AA-EVP NewsJournal and future publications. You will always
be given credit.
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Orb picture taken by AA-EVP member, David Sircom. If you
look closely, you can see that a "string of pearls" appears to
be formed by a single sphere of light that is moving from the right to the
left. It doubled back a little and then moved toward the camera (or visa
versa). The orb appears to have been rapidly changing in brightness as it
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This picture was taken by Max Mattson of Truckee, California
in the Virginia City, Nevada Fourth Ward School house. You can see a line
of bright spots moving from the bottom of the picture, just between the
lower window and the right banister, up in front of the upper window and
off to the left over the left banister. Actually, it appears that
the orb moved from somewhere at the right, down toward the lower floor and
then up and to the left (or visa versa).
This picture was taken with a 35 mm camera using 200 speed film and a
flash. The version here was scanned from the negative and slightly
brightened to enhance the "string of pearls." We do not know the
speed of the shutter, since the camera was on "Auto," nor do we
know exactly how long the trail is, since it entered the frame, left and
reentered during the single exposure. However, taking a guess at 1/60
second shutter speed and a roughly ten foot "string," the orb
may have been moving in excess of 600 miles per hour.
Since the sting has a trace of the moving orb in-between the bright
spots, the orb must have been only dimming in intensity and then becoming
bright again as it moved, suggesting a sinusoidal pulsing. Again using ten
feet of movement, the orb appears to have been pulsing at at least 6000
pulses per second. We do not know if the orb is rapidly changing in
energy (we think not since the orb does not become smaller) or if it is
moving to and from etheric reality. That is one of the points we wish to
study.
Please Note:
As noted above, we have discovered that a spider web will appear like a string of pearls
in a flash picture. Apparently spiders extrude the web in a pulsing action
and the resulting irregularities in the web reflect as facets to the
camera. If you find essentially the same "string of pearls"
feature in more than one picture, it is probably a web.
The example on the left may be a spider web. The reason we suspect that
it is not a web, is that the path of the orb (if it is one) changes
direction without the sort of visible anchor a piece of web would require.
Once again, we find that mundane things can mimic true phenomena.
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Hint: Make a record of what you feel
while on an investigation. Sensing the presence of an entity in a particular
part of the room, and then taking a picture that contains an orb, is especially
evidential. Some experimenters have also been successful in asking the entity to
go to a particular place to be photographed. Keep good records--both of your
activity and that of witnesses.
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