These orbs appear to react intelligently and move fast. I do think they are also the majority of UFO sightings as well. We do have over 200,000 such observations. These are not floresent gas bubbles and are not associated with active thunderstorms such as ball lightening.
The problem is that they emit light. sorting that out will be challenging.
We actually have several types of objects and it will take actual radar intercepts and plenty of them to get resolution over what we have so far. At least it is now happening.
I notice folks are rumbling a about gravity craft from the fifties. That MEME is gathering legs.
New Observatory Concept for Imaging UAP Orbs
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-new-observatory-concept-for-imaging-uap-orbs-748fc8b0d435
The most mysterious Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in the five tranches of data which were declassified over the past four months in the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) are orbs.
These orbs are glowing entities, estimated to be on the scale of meters. The encounters are diverse.
The 2nd PURSUE tranche mentions a senior intelligence officer’s 2025 account of being left “virtually speechless” after an hour-long observation of orange orbs. The 5th PURSUE tranche provides a helicopter account of an orb swarm with “a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour,” plus two larger ones described as “oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, emitting light in all directions.” The 5th tranche also includes infrared footage of a hovering black sphere. Some orbs are consistent with earlier historical reports on Tic-Tac-shape objects. They appear cold on thermal imagery in several infrared-sensor cases despite visual or radar-apparent motion. Some orbs were moving over the Gulf of Oman with a speed in the range of Mach 0.3–1.7 (250–1,300 mph) and a Syrian case reported instant acceleration.
Not all UAP are orbs. The 1965 CIA memo in the 5th tranche describes a delta-shaped object tracked at Mach 3 by the USS Gyatt radar near Puerto Rico and implying that some UAP have triangular morphologies. This UAP had radar tracking. However, many orb-specific reports rely primarily on infrared or electro-optical footage, hand-held recordings, or witness interviews rather than independent radar returns.
The 2nd tranche mentioned “countless orange orbs swarming in all directions against the backdrop of the mountain,” as well as formation flying UAPs in the Persian Gulf based on October 2019 footage. The 5th tranche mentions the AC-130J contacts in September 2021 over the Gulf of Oman with about 25 cold orbs maneuvering aggressively. The two large orange orbs beside the helicopter held position just above the rotor disk. The orbs appeared to react intelligently within 15 seconds to weapons fire. A 2025 clip shows an orb racing over a populated Middle Eastern city.
These orb reports represent the genuinely ambiguous residuals that remain unresolved by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in the Pentagon. How can we help AARO and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) fulfil their mission in resolving these cases? Today, I came up with the following new concept for an observatory that can accomplish this task.
My concept for the UAP Orb Observatory contains two components. The first is a radar system, capable of identifying objects of interest in the sky. The second is a meter-scale telescope, capable of resolving these objects on angular scales of order an arcsecond or better. This high angular resolution allows us to identify details on centimeter scales, comparable to the diameter of a garden pea, at a distance of 2 kilometers!
An example for a suitable, commercially available telescope is the meter-diameter CDK1000 Telescope System. The telescope dome can slew faster than the angular speed of a target moving at Mach 0.1 as long as that target is farther than 600 meters. The dome slewing rate of 3 degrees per second can easily focus on targets that stay in the sky for more than one minute. The reported hour-long orbs should be easy targets to focus on.
The radar system can be either active — namely transmitting its own radio beam and searching for reflections from objects, or passive — namely searching for reflected radio waves from ground-based radio, television or satellite transmissions. The radar should cover the entire sky and identify the sky coordinates of targets of interest to a precision much better than the field of view of the imaging telescope.
Once an orb is identified by the radar system, the telescope would steer to its sky coordinates and obtain a high-resolution image of it. Equipping the telescope with a spectrograph would allow it to determine the material composition of the orb based on its spectrum. In 2012, a natural ball lightning event was accidentally captured on video with a spectrometer running during a field campaign studying ordinary lightning. This gave scientists, for the first time, a quantitative emission spectrum of a real ball lightning event rather than a qualitative eyewitness description. The spectrum showed emission lines consistent with silicon, iron, and calcium, namely elements found in soil, supporting a physical model which associates ball lightning with silicon vapor (as discussed in a paper published here).
The Galileo Project will design its next observatory as an “orb imager” based on the above-mentioned concept.
