The photos that you'll see were all taken by HGH members during our investigations. These photos reveal glitches that could be common, or even mistaken for paranormal phenomena, along with explanations on how they have occurred. Hopefully this will help in determining what may appear in some of your own personal photos as well.
In addition to the original photos, we may have used various enhancements to show details differently. If you think our explanations aren't correct and can help with suggestions on what could have caused certain glitches, please email us. Your guidance and understanding is appreciated.
If we may state our opinion, we believe at least 99% of orbs appearing in photos originate from natural causes such as dirt, dust, pollen, moisture, insects, lens/light refractions, etc. Take into consideration all of the particles floating about through a stream of sunlight entering a window, or through a stream of light from a flashlight in the dark. Although they are minuscule in size, they can still be captured on film. We've actually created "natural orb" photos in controlled environments simply by kicking up dirt from a rug, shaking a dusty towel, spraying water or windex for moisture (or taking photos in the rain/snow), even taking photos near active pets for dander and dust, etc. These are exercises you can perform with your own camera to see how natural orbs may appear in your photos.
Sensor confusion is also a good example regarding colored orb photos. On your computer, view a photo you've taken in the dark/at night and pick a very dark area somewhere in the pic and keep zooming in until you are way in. You will notice the black isn't actually black, there are dark reds, dark greens, all different colors that the camera is trying to translate as the actual color. It's the same with orbs, especially with dust close to the lens which creates relatively larger orbs (the closer the particle is to the lens, the larger it appears in the photo). You have a device thats designed to take pics a few feet to many feet away, of things that are at least a few inches in size at the minimum (describing a typical camera). Then you have, for instance, a half an inch away from the camera, a tiny spec of dust that is outside the focal range of the camera. The camera has a very hard time trying to recreate what that is and the flash against that particle is so close to the camera, that it's super bright, so the sensor doesn't have enough information to color it correctly.
Here is a great page we have come across regarding orbs. To read: 'Orbs: Naturalistic, Paranormal, or Man-Made' CLICK HERE
Many of the orb photos we have come across in the field look very similar to those that we have created. With this being said, on one occasion a few members did witness a illuminating, marble sized sphere moving about and disappearing with NO logical explanation (unfortunately we didn't have any equipment with us to verify the sighting). So as we may disregard numerous orb photos from our investigations, we can't help but to take into consideration an extremely small fraction of those that may appear with additional occurrences such other unexplainable sightings (mainly seeing the illuminating orb without the use of equipment). However, we've yet to claim an "Orb" as paranormal evidence from any of our photos or videos.
Orbs originating from natural causes (non-paranormal):
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