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I took a picture of my bowflex that I am selling a few days ago. Hey lookie there - orbs! Yep, kitty litter dust. My wife was cleaning the litter box to the side when I took it.
I have seen one orb in my life, and I wish I had gotten it on camera. I wasn't even remotely prepared though.
I walked outside on my upstairs deck. There are trees just past the stairs out there, leading down. As I took a couple of steps from the door (all one motion, no pause) an orb the size of a soccer ball shot from the side of the tree (no real limbs) and as it moved away, it disappeared. I was a bit stunned, to say the least.
The flood light was on and as a naturalist of sorts, having held owls and other birds and even caught wild local bats, I can assure you it was not an animal. No shape other than round, light/whitish and it did not fly away and out of sight, rather it faded out, while perfectly inside the range of the flood light. The startling thing, and what makes my hair stand up a bit as I think about it again, is that it reacted to my presence and shot away. Why was it near the tree trunk? What was it? Why did it react negatively towards me?
Let me reiterate, there were no wings, no shape, corners or features. Just a high speed blob that existed for only a few feet. It was stationary when I noticed it start to move. It was hovering initially, like a non-patterned soccer ball floating by a tree, then taking off at high speed and disappearing.
After that, I think of the rest as false positives. Bugs highly out of focus, dust stationary or dust in a wind, depending on how it moves, etc. For instance, Zeraph, your second vid, the orb moves exactly like a lacewing in flight. Put a lacewing close to the camera and you have that exact effect. I'm not saying that definitely is the case, but it does seem more like that, to me.
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