I have trouble with the orbs. While it is nice to wax poetic about their origin, and much of the value in poetry is in the eye ....or ear...of the beholder/listener, I have difficulty with claims that they have a physical origin that indicates a message from the other side. If there is some personally meaningful interpretation to where/when they show up, even if they are anomalies, I won't argue with that. But often the question really means ..what are they in physical terms.
And after I saw this question, I came across the following on a website that is dedicated to showcasing pictures of what are supposed to be ghosts:
something to the effect that you cannot distinguish a true orb from dust particles, etc., and that digital cameras have a camera flaw that can cause a false orb to be produced. (decided to not use as quote because they are adamant about stuff from their site not being copied!)
Note also that they do not deny the existence of what may be "real" orbs...they just question how photographically accurate they are.
The web page this came from is this:
http://www.ghostfiles.org/photos.htmand the home page for this website is this:
http://www.ghostfiles.org/Ball Lightning is too odd a phenomenon to ignore! I first heard about this from reading something about Charles Fort...another interesting phenomenon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightningIt is fun to have such a mystery happening in the 21st century!
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/20/2194630.htm