Strange Sphere Anomalies

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and her boyfriend were outside of where she lives taking pictures of the clouds. They didn't see anything unusual with their eyes, but when they examined the pictures this is what they saw. This was actually during the afternoon in bright daylight, my daughter darkened the pictures to make them show up better. Have you ever seen anything like this before?









This is my first thread, how did I do?

a reply to: tattooedlunchlady

Are you sure there are no windows between the camera and the clouds ?. Looks like some kind of reflection of the camera lense, the small dots are from inside the lense.

Could be a tiny droplet on the lense.

S+F for pics Btw.

a reply to: Mianeye
Yes, I'm sure. She said they were standing out in the yard taking pictures of the clouds and this is what showed up in the pictures. I suppose it may have been a droplet, I will ask her if she checked. I think the oddest thing is those little pinpoints of light or whatever on each sphere.

Thanks for the S&F!

There was a thread that had exactly the same "artefact" on them, it was last month or so, I will see if I can find it.

Good first thread, you found out how to post pics first time around!!

a reply to: Jonjonj

Great! I hope you can find it, I would love to see it. And thank you, but I did have some help, from my hubby who is a retired computer technician!

linky orb thingy

Here you go OP, there is quite a discussion about those types of images in there.

I am sure you will agree that they are very similar.

a reply to: tattooedlunchlady

The first picture it is clear that the "spot" is not solid as you can see the tree branch behind it.

Assume there is a spot of water on the camera lense ?

In the other thread, which showed basically the exact same thing, it was determined to be lens flare...

This orb capture is great. Its clearly between the camera and tree branch. It also appears to be emitting its own light. And it appears in different locations.

a reply to: tattooedlunchlady

If she was randomly pointing and each photo picked up the article/image it means the lens is causing the flare. Otherwise each photo ended up with the same article wherever she shot the image, which is unlikely.

a reply to: Jonjonj

Thanks for finding that, I read through a bunch of the posts, a lot of people think it is a lens flare, but can't seem to explain the little dots. I found it really interesting, too, that WhyamIhere says he saw one with his own eyes.

As for the idea of a spot of water on the lense, that's probably not likely. I talked to my daughter since this post, she said she used her phone to take the picture. She more than likely pulled it out of her pocket to take the picture, it doesn't seem likely that it was wet and it wasn't raining either.

a reply to: tattooedlunchlady

You are very welcome. As to the conclusions that were drawn, I don't think a consensus was reached really. Because the poster you were talking about, who said they had seen it, well that doesn't fit the conclusion very well. And the dots, I don't remember any particular explanation about the dots.
But I guess, as with most anomalies, the mystery will remain for some.
What does SEEM to be excluded now though is that it was something specific to one type of lens, as the other photos were apparently taken with a camera, and these were taken with a phone.

ALIENS!

a reply to: Jonjonj
You do make some good points. I agree with you that the dots don't seem to be explained very well. And to me, every example of lens flare that was shown in that other post really didn't look at all like these orbs. I did find that thread very interesting though. I did not expect to see another example of those spheres that were just like the ones I posted, that's freaky!

a reply to: infolurker

I noticed that, too. But if it was a water spot would it be likely to contain all of those evenly spaced dots?

a reply to: admirethedistance

There were a lot of people coming to that conclusion, however, I'm not sure I agree.

a reply to: Oannes

My daughter does seem to be pretty good at taking pictures. I will pass your compliment on to her, thanks!

a reply to: zazzafrazz

Good point!

a reply to: Temudjin

Maybe, I wouldn't rule them out!

I have quite a few of those in some pictures. Mostly they show up in low light or darkness and I've come to the conclusion that they are water droplets some rain drops, some tiny droplets in the fog, snow flakes or other floating debris (dust, pollen, insects) that the camera flash hits.

Nothing mystical or magical most of the time.