Orbs and Rods are They Really Paranormal?

Photo of Orbs By Henny van der Swaluwe courtesy of wikimedia commons 

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The one thing we can almost always count on in most paranormal online groups, is photos of orbs and rods. What are orbs and rods one might ask and, how do they fit into the paranormal field? Well, an orb is best described as a round spot of light that is not visible but is captured on a still or moving film. They do vary in size, form, color, clarity, intensity and are a delight to a lot of amateur ghost hunters and a few professional paranormal research/investigation teams as well. However, most investigation teams will not document an orb as evidence on an investigation. Some do believe that an orb is the spirit of one who is deceased but has not crossed over to the other side yet and is still earth bound. Many people believe that an orb is energy of a deceased one's spirit, angel and sign of other paranormal entities. Orbs have also been known as globes, balls of light.

Alien "UFO" Rods at Harewood House, captured on a warm spring afternoon in 2005 

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Now let's move on to rods. What are rods? Well, in the world of the paranormal, rods are like orbs except for their shape. Also, rods seem to leave a tail of light behind them as they streak across the film area. Believers say that a rod is a intense amount of energy a type of strange bug we can´t see with our eyes or even beings of another dimension, also known as ultra-terrestials. Many believe that a rod is proof of the existence of the paranormal because rods seem to leave a trail of light behind them and they see to travel at very fast speeds. Rods are also captured mostly on moving film and camcorders. Rods are also know as energy rods, light rods and swimmers.

As I mentioned before, most investigation teams will not mark a orb or a rod as evidence of the paranormal. The reason for this is simply that, there are very many particles of dust in our air. We have very small particles of moisture, fungal spores, plasma, wood dust, plant material, skin cells, rock particles, sot and so on. We have also have seen insects that have shown up on film as orbs and rods, on top of this are the optical effects that cause orb or rod like shapes to appear. Being a paranormal investigator myself, I always decline to accept a rod or orb as evidence of the paranormal. As I said, there are just way to many particles of whatever in our air and, when one takes a photo, or taping a film the light from the flash and any other light source will be is reflected off of that particular particle whatever it may be.

I have several times been shown photos of orbs, and then when the orb in the photograph is blown up it seems to show images within them, more often then not I would say this is regular parodelia where our mind look at the uneven parts within the image and makes out patterns and organize them into figures in our mind, making them look like horned orbs, numbers of 666 and every other form on the earth can be found in this kind of orb footages.

To be honest about it, I have never seen any photo that would give me any reason to think  the orb or rod in the photo could be the energy of a spirit that is still earth bound. Like I explained in my entry What is Paranormal?, once the paranormal is proven, it will no longer be no more paranormal simply by the word's definition.

If anyone has any way to prove that an orb is of paranormal nature, PLEASE feel free to contact me at waikikiblogboi@gmail.com  If you only have a photo of something that says it has it's own light source then, please do not waste your time or mine. If you have a video of a speck of something that changes direction, pleas do not send me that either. Things like that have long been explained. I do not want to cause an orb war here and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If you have anything that can change my mind about orbs, please send it my way.

Of course just because orbs and rods are impossible to use as paranormal evidence does not mean that every orb and rod caught on photo or video is not of a paranormal origin, the problem lays in the fact that it is so many things a orb photo can be, and the same goes for rods.

The Battle For Los Angeles - The Most Documented UFO sighing in History.

I think that it is very safe to say that UFO's do exist. Mainly due to the fact that UFO's are any unidentified flying object. However, are UFO's evidence of aliens from another planet. Well, that remains to be seen. The first UFO sourced and recorded sighting was in the year 329BC by Alexander The Great. I am one who believes that we are not alone, and just like with the Drake Constant that postulate the probability of Life and civilizations in a galaxy, there has to somewhere out in deep space there be another planet that has some form of intelligent life on it. That life form could be more intelligent then ours or, maybe even not near our intelligence.

One of the UFO cases that has always held my interest is the one known as THE BATTLE FOR LOS ANGELES, back in Feb. 1942. That case like many other cases to the best of my knowledge, has never been solved.  The following link will take you to a investigative news story being broadcasted about the incident. The report was broadcasted on the 25 years anniversary of the Battle of Los Angeles. Click on the link and you can make up your own mind as to if it was a real UFO or was it a weather balloon as the government insist it was to this very day..
   


When you watch this video, try to remember anything in the air is a weather balloon to the government. The government said that, the Roswell Incident was also a weather balloon. The Roswell incident didn't take place until five years after the Los Angeles UFO incident and the government still insist it was a weather balloon ONLY after the U.S. Air Force had already said a UFO  had crashed. Here is the link to that story and you can make up your own mind on that story too

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/roswell-ufo-crash_n_1715663.html

I strongly suggest that if UFO research is your interest, You really should take a look at the Battle for Los Angeles video and read the article on the Roswell Incident. Lets just say that the LA incident was a weather balloon, Do you really think that the army and air force could Not shoot down a simple weather balloon? I will leave it up to you to decide for yourself !!

Extraterrestrial Contact
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