Orbs are small areas of glowing light that appear in photos and videos, usually when the image is recorded at night, especially when using an infrared night vision camera or flash.
This phenomenon really dates from a rather, less scientific era of ghost hunt and paranormal research, and was stimulated by the introduction of the first consumer camcorders with night vision, which became available everywhere in the early 2000s.
While most aspects of the paranormal, such as the use of Ouija boards, EMF meters and cold spots are considered by many to be proven as paranormally, bulbs are discussed and the paranormal world is distributed. Nowadays, many paranormal researchers simply put Orbs on a camera anomaly instead of paranormal evidence.
Those who believe say that the bulbs are a manifestation of an unknown energy and would broadcast their own light. Orbs are recorded that seem to be many different colors, although they are usually pure white or transparent. They appear in themselves, or in groups, clustered together.
Sometimes people even claim to be able to see human faces in the bulbs, although this is simply an example of Pareidolia, our subconscious tendency to convert random patterns into identifiable objects, such as ‘the man on the moon’.
Paranormal researchers have even categorized the different colors, for example, it is thought that white bulbs are a positive energy, while red suggests that a protective mind is present and black indicates the presence of a negative or angry entity. Since these bulbs are the result of an energy that we do not yet understand, the researchers are unclear to a conclusion about these different colors.
A growing number of people within the paranormal community come to terms with the fact that Orbs can be explained as normal, instead of paranormal, and it is due to the overwhelming amount of evidence offered to disprove the paranormal claims.
Everyone, from amateur ghost hunters to members of the audience, camera calculations and even scientists have had their opinion about the phenomenon.
In reality, orbs are the result of various proven things, including drops of moisture on a camera lens and slightly burning in the lens of the camera that causes a slight deviation known as a lensflare. Light that reflects on surfaces nearby, either inside or from the field of vision is also a cause, just like light reflects from small particles in the air.
Particles in the air are the most common cause, this can be everything from dust, water vapor, rain, snow or even insects. They are most visible when the camera uses a flash or spotlight, or it is in the night vision mode. They can also be visible in a photo when the particles pass through a strong beam of light, such as a sunbeam through a window.
Fujifilm recognizes Orbs as a common photographic problem and say that “there is always a certain amount of dust in the air. You may have noticed this in the films when you look up at the light that comes out of the film projector and the clear Sparks drives around the flash. Your shot.”
Fuji adds that the reason that small dust specks can be so visible on the camera, until the vicinity of the camera and the nature of how the camera focuses, “dust particles are faded very close to the camera because they are not in focus, but because they are the light stronger than the white with the camera and the result of the result. Dust particles.”
The effect can also be seen on Night Vision Video cameras, where clear infrared LEDs illuminate microscopic particles that are very close to the lens. The artifacts are especially common with compact cameras, where the short distance between the lens and the built -in flash reduces the angle from light reflection to the lens, causing the aspect of the particles that are confronted to the lens, directly illuminated and the power of the camera to enlarge the light, the normally under striking particles of the lens.
It is for this reason that more and more people are taking orbs on photos in photos, cameras are becoming more compact and the flash is getting closer to the lens. Cameras of smartphones usually have a small flash right next to the small lens, the two could not be closer.
Although largely invalidated, some believers stick to the idea of Orbs by admitting that some bulbs are the result of dust or light, but say that some are really paranormal. They say they can see the difference by looking for spokes of light, which they say it shows that it is caused by a kind of light anomaly, where the real deal is said to be.
Whether you like it or not, the truth is that there is no evidence at all that Orbs are a paranormal phenomenon. The claims that they are are nothing more than a belief or theory based on observations by paranormal researchers. However, there is sufficient evidence that confirms that some, if not all, orbs are fabric, lens torches and other artifacts.
That said, it is still a bit of a sensation when you see a creepy light ball that moves across the screen in a video that has taken a spooky location on a ghost hunt.
