From comments at the article:
PS - there’s a superb, if unwitting, demonstration of how this ‘anomaly’ comes about in this image : Note how the *actual* light is blown out, but the reflection of it (caused by an internal lens flare) is symmetrically placed in the opposite diagonal location in the image - just as a lot of lens flares do.. And if you shoot through a curved car side window, or get that reflection off an angled windscreen, then you can get it happening at pretty much any angle.. Busted”
Wait......WHA?!
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.