  We consider the wave and Schr\"odinger equations with Dirichlet boundary
conditions in the exterior of a ball in $\mathbb{R}^d$. In dimension $d = 3$ we
construct a sharp, global in time parametrix and then proceed to obtain sharp
dispersive estimates, matching the $\mathbb{R}^3$ case, for all frequencies
(low and high). If $d \ge 4$, we provide an explicit solution to the wave
equation localized at large frequency $1/h$ with data $\delta_{Q_0}$, where
$Q_0$ is a point at large distance s from the center of the ball : taking $s
\sim h^{-1/3}$, the decay rate of that solution exhibits a $(t/h)^{d-3}/4$ loss
with respect to the boundary less case, that occurs at $t \sim 2s$ with an
observation point being symmetric to $Q_0$ with respect to the center of the
ball (at the Poisson Arago spot). A similar counterexample is also obtained for
the Schr\"odinger flow.
