I haven't ever taken a shot of the sun high in the sky like that, only when there's cloud cover or shortly before sunset where the atmosphere causes enough diffusion of the light to keep from damaging the sensor. My guess is with Swordmaker. The first clue is that the object is directly in front of the sun in all the pictures. The second is that there's blowing out of the dark objects closer to the camera. In the lower right picture, for example the light blows out the power lines and makes the tower a light gray-blue, instead of a full silhouette. If it were an object, it would similarly have light bleeding over the edges of the object as the light pole and the bridge in the upper right photo. Finally, the object would have to be huge to create that size silhouette
This looks like a pixel blowout to me.