Why Ring Recordings Have Strange Lights Or Orbs At Night?

Due to the backscattering photographic effect, ring cameras can capture orbs. This occurs when light is scattered by tiny things in dim lighting, such as dust or tiny insects. By adjusting your illumination, reducing your motion sensitivity, or activating snooze mode, you can reduce the number of orbs your Ring camera captures.

Let's investigate the origin of these orbs using the Ring as a ghost-busting tool!

Which Rings Are Capable of Recording Orbs?

You might be surprised to learn that every Ring device with a camera can capture orbs and other paranormal occurrences. The complete list of Ring Recordings Have Strange Lights Or Orbs At Night that have the potential to record orbs and other strange visual phenomena is shown below.

All Ring doorbells (including the Wired, Pro 1, Pro 2, and 1-4 battery-powered variants)

Indoor Cam
Stick Up Cam
Spotlight Camera
Floodlight Cam

You could be wondering at this point if there is an issue with how Ring has created its cameras. There must be a problem with the design they chose if every single Ring camera can pick up orbs.

The Ring Cameras Record in What Ways?

Before discussing orbs, it is necessary first to discuss backscattering, a visual phenomenon.

Specific individuals claim that the orbs they capture on camera are ghosts or other supernatural phenomena. Still, we can rule out some orbs as nothing more than a case of photographic backscattering. This occurs when light is scattered very close to the camera lens by out-of-focus elements, including dust or rain.

Your Ring camera has the same chance of experiencing this as a high-end photographic camera. Backscattering results from the straightforward physics of how light and focusing interact with our imaging equipment. We also need to take into account other factors that are unique to Ring cameras.

Some Ring cameras and doorbells only capture video at a frame rate of 15 seconds. This is significantly less than the 24 frames-per-second Hollywood standard and much less than what your smartphone is capable of.

We need to improve performance regarding small, swiftly moving objects due to the 15 frames per second that Ring cameras record. Small birds and insects have flight rates that allow them to pass through the frames that your Ring camera catches.

Your smartphone can photograph a fast-moving bug in flight, but your Ring camera might only catch it as a blur on the screen for one shot. This is particularly true of tiny insects, which can also result in backscattering.

Insects that eliminate the frame rate of Ring cameras are most likely the cause of many weird movies you see people posting online from their Ring doorbell cameras. This can make them appear to be anything, including a UFO or these bizarre moving ghosts.