Paranormal or Just Dust?

Many of you know I keep an armoire full of costumes - almost every era of history can be found in them, and I like to go through them every once in a while to make sure some still fit. I pluck these costumes out for fun events around San Francisco and beyond, and lately I've been thinking about Halloween, since I'll be gone the weekend just before it for The World Fantasy Convention in San Diego.

My husband decided to take a series of photos in these costumes, as some of them I was ready to cull from the herd and sell on eBay. This photo was taken shortly after we began, in the Library, with a digital Kodak EasyShare C182 camera.



An unexplained flash of light is there, and there were no bugs in the room, nor was any window open. There was no draft. Many paranormal researchers believe that orbs must be discounted from evidence, as they can be explained by floating dust particles, which often pixelate when the light is refracted through a digital camera lense. This free-floating light is not pixelated, nor is it a uniform orb, though at its center there does seem to be a circular shape. It is also creating it's own light--not reflecting it. So...is it paranormal? Or just dust? You decide. :-)