People keep treating this frame like it’s the literal silhouette of some impossible craft, but what you’re seeing is very likely a known optical artifact from the FLIR system itself. The “cross” or “orb-with-spikes” shape is consistent with a saturation/blooming effect that happens when an extremely bright heat source is centered in-frame on certain infrared targeting cameras. Because the polarity of the feed is inverted, hotter objects appear darker instead of brighter, so the glare artifact...