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Posted on 11/03/2011 2:26:46 AM PDT by Neil E. Wright
Common in severe blizzard conditions. Seen it twice in my life. Snowing both times. Likes to crawl slowly down steel cable guy wires and trees...and masts on ships.
My best guess based on experience, and the appearance of what I think is falling snow in the pics.
My guess would be lights of an approaching/landing airplane.
I have flown into Jackson Hole airport several times. The situation there is unique. There is a long narrow valley that the snake river winds through, with high mountains all along it on two sides. Approaching planes have to fly in between the mountains with a very precise path and elevation and then land very quickly.
In the winter (as in this photo) Jackson gets a lot of air traffic in for the ski resorts. So the chances of standing on one of the mountains and getting an approaching plane in your photo would be high. And the plane would actually be relatively close to you as it passes by.
The first picture is of a light behind a tree and some snow. The other pictures are of lights in the sky when it is dark outside.
Don’t know about the first two, but the third one is a flying pencil.....
The moon, a tree and some water vapor reflecting the flash.
The streaky one is probably just an exposure aberration.
“Real orbs” look totally different from those.
Couldn’t be Uranus, that would have a brown streak behind it.
Do I win something?
I go with Salamander’s response.
Not mine. I haven’t been to Wyoming since 1972.
http://ghoststudy.com/main/fakepageorbs.html
http://www.iprfinc.com/brian9.html
As a digital photo nut [even delving into IR and UV, for kicks] I’ve “photographed” more “orbs” than I can count.
99.9% of the time, it’s dust/moisture/pollen/bugs/whatever.
There’s one ‘friendly’ reddish-orange one that always shows up in the photos I take on “Suicide Ridge” right beside my house.
Have no clue “what” it is but the little bugger’s almost always showing itself somewhere in the area, no matter which camera I’m using.
The stuff that really intrigues me more are the ‘mists’ that pop up in night shoot cemetery photos when the atmospheric conditions simply do not exist for them to occur “naturally”.
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