There's a "story" that kinda goes along with this photo also, ... whereas the photo could either be a "coincidence", or something other, that has yet to be totally revealed.

Ever since I was younger, I had been interested in architecture, especially "earth sheltered" habitats. Had considered going to architectural school at Ball State in Muncie, IN, ... but opted for a Comp. Sc. degree (late 70's). I had designed a partially underground home while I was in college, and that fueled my imagination to inquire of "underground" living. Anyhow, over the course of the last few years, I came across some web-sites that discussed some of the old abandoned missile sites around the country, ... such as the Atlas E's, Atlas F's, Titan 1's, etc., ... and I did some more digging to find that the Denver area had quite a few.

Well, anyhow, ... back to the orbs photo, ... it was taken by my mom at their home after a very violent storm ripped through our area (Goshen, IN) during the summer of 2003. A few days later, I was visiting when she started to show me some of the photos she took of the damage around the home. She took a dozen or more, but this one really stuck out immediately as I saw it, because I saw those orbs. None of the other photos she took had anything like it on them. I had limited knowledge of orbs, as I had come across them before in "surfing" the net, but these were some of the "cleanest" and "perfectly circular" ones that I had ever seen, ... especially when I'd seen other photos that appeared that they were most likely generated by dust particles or water droplets.

My mom saw the enthusiasm that I had for the photo, and so she said I could keep it. From that point, "in my mind", I saw it as a photo of two heavenly beings who were watching over my mom and dads place, ... as that huge limb barely missed falling on their home. And I kept it in a handy place to look at it from time-to-time.

It was several months later that I began to notice some other unique things about the photo. The date, for example, on the photo ... 7-7-03, ... divine numbers. And then in April of 2004 was when I began to realize that the orbs were very similar to the "Control" and "Power" domes of a Titan 1 missile base, ... and when I began comparing the orbs with that of a Titan 1 drawing, ... the relative sizes, the distance apart from each other, etc., it was amazing how similar they were.

I noticed that they didn't "perfectly match", but then a few months later I came to realize that the orbs were actually more precise as far relative size, etc., than the drawing was! In the drawing, I determined that the "power" dome was actually about 22% larger than the "control" dome, while the larger orb in the photo is 30% larger than the smaller one. What's interesting to note is that the actual constructed domes is 100 feet (control dome) and 130 feet (power dome) according to various sources, ... so the orbs more closely match the "real thing" in terms of proportional size (if not precisely)! Something to ponder.

I still haven't figured out what the two different "spots" on each orb represent yet, but perhaps some day that will be revealed also. I did notice though that when I enlarged the "smaller" one so that it matched the size of the "larger" one, the "spots" were at the same latitude in both, although not in the same position. When I showed it to a fellow at work some time ago, he also pointed out that there was a "third orb" in the photo (he saw it when he enlarged it), but fairly faint, and just below the two (closer to the orb on the left). This one is smaller than the other two.

You will note that my mom took this on film (I have the negative), so I took a "digital" of it (you will note that the paper curled just a bit as I was taking a photo of it on my concrete patio floor). I'm enclosing the "orbs photos", a Titan 1 missile layout drawing, and a comparison photo of the orbs and the domes of the missile base.

At this point I'm waiting for possibly more things to be revealed, ... whether "imaginary" or real, ... we'll see!

Eric McDowell
Middlebury, IN