While we wait for the most important image in the history of humankind (maybe),
I've been thinking about our use of the word "orb" in this context.
It's interesting (to me anyway) how certain words/ phrases get used, widely adopted in the "UFOs are alien"/ paranormal believer communities and then get used more widely.
Why isn't a 20m/ 65 foot diameter "orb" a
sphere?
Would 1960's Echo 1, the first (experimental) communications satellite, qualify as an orb?
The Ufology use of "orb" seems to have been prefigured in its use by other paranormal believers using the word to describe the (often) circular, translucent photographic artefacts due to backscatter (and sometimes internal lens reflections etc.), which they interpreted as being something unusual, perhaps spiritual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(photography)
I guess "orb" sounds more portentous than "ball" or "round thingy". UAB, "Unidentified Aerial Ball" doesn't inspire awe.
Does "orb" mean, to UFO enthusiasts, "lacking surface details"? (I'll make a prediction: UAPMax's photo won't have surface detail). -Oops, just re-checked the OP,
UAP researcher/podcaster and twitter user 'UAPMax.com'
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Arms or appendages extending. Same laser systems I reported on.
...so we
can look forward to really quite extensive additional detail.
We can reasonably expect to see visible laser beams emanating from the object, or details of the object in such extraordinary detail that we can surmise that it is carrying "laser systems" which would be amazing. Otherwise UAPMax's claims are bunk, at least in part.
As a kid, I loved the RAF's Harrier GR.3's, which had a Ferranti laser system in the nose, giving the aircraft a prominent snout.

But of course, you can't actually
tell if there's a laser in there from external appearances- the lens at the end of the snout might give a clue as to what might be inside, but that's because we know about 70's tech and the context in which Harriers operated.
So how laser systems have been identified on the eagerly-expected ball is hard to imagine; presumably an access hatch is open for whatever reason, allowing the mechanism of a laser to be identified.