[mikegi]

I saw this video on Fox too. If you watch the entire video you see that this is an extreme zoom and that the shape you see is some soret of video artifact - someone mentioned 'iris reflection' - but whatever it is, when the camera zoomed back out this was obvious.

Well then, it's the damnedest lens flare I've ever seen. Note that the shape of the "object" is what you'd expect to see when viewing the shuttle from underneath the rear AND it has the proper colors (white on top, black on the bottom). I put a short mpeg1 clip out on my website showing the entire zoom in and zoom out sequence.

[FreedomCalls]

Here is a photo of the aperture in a Sony video camcorder.

The outline of this is what you would see if you photographed a very bright light while the lens was out of focus. Does it look familiar? Before you complain about it being upside down, remember that a lens' image on the CCD in a camcorder is upside down.

[ChadGore]

I'm sorry, but I don't see what your guys see in this image, or video.