I took a look at the shadows of the buildings, too close to call.
I am guessing the satellite is in orbit in the neighborhood of 300 miles above the surface of the Earth, the object in question is said to be at an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. Assume that the properties are 100ft x 100ft per lot, the object appears to be the size of three of those lots, or 100 yards in diameter.
Of course it also can be one of the new M&M's silver candies that someone placed in front of the camera lens 300 miles high?
The thick orange line in the above picture is my best guess as to the direction the sunlight is coming from. I was trying to be as generous as possible, I do believe that the line is actually too far counter-clockwise to the actual direction, but for the sake of argument, I put it where I did.
The following picture is of three tall buildings on the south side of Magnolia Lake, part of the President Country Club. The tall buildings give us a wonderful opportunity to see what angle the satellite is at as well as a strong shadow to determine the direction of the sun. The thin orange lines extend from the building along the shadows - the sun would be in opposition to those shadows. Even trying to be generous, there is no way to match up the highlight on the object vs the direction of the sun as indicated by the shadows.
It isn't a silver M&M up in space, it isn't an alien object, it isn't anything other than a manipulation of the image after it was taken.
There is another one (more matching with the solar direction) along the Florida Turnpike just north of the 710 Bee Line Highway. Where there are two, there are likely more - the position of the second one leads me to believe that neither are there to cover up any particular location. Graphics used to help line up the photos? Doubtful but remotely possible. I'm sure that Digital Globe has some explanation, one or another, that someone can squeeze out of them. :)
Hello, the object needs to be higher than that. Mt. Everest is imaged by this and similar satellites and it is in focus (at 30,000 feet). So are clouds. The object cant be moving too fast since the color and black and white bands are pretty well registered. Moving cars and things like that get miss-registered. To judge the size simply count the pixels across. Commercial spy satellites (Quickbird and IKONOS) both image at around one meter (one pixel = one meter). Digital globes satellite (Quickbird) does just a bit better. Zoom in all the way in the viewer any you should be looking at one meter resolution. Given that the image is lit from the wrong side - and that it has to be very high and stationary to look the way it does in the image it must have been added later.