Keith Breazeal Video Productions

UFO? Unknown aircraft? Analysis: you decide.
I was going through some old footage during an edit session and found this artifact flying through the shot of the AV-8B Harrier jet. At first I thought it was another aircraft flying in the background. If this is some kind of plane, the tail looking part is in the front,(!) not the rear. It doesn't appear to have any wings either.(?) I ran the tape at normal speed on the first clip. The second clip is 10% slow motion. Note: the momentary blur of the object is when it crosses behind the downward exhaust gases of the jet. The third clip is zoomed in on the object as it approaches the nose gear of the AV-B and is 10% slow motion. The fourth clip is a freeze frame. The fifth and last clip is from the freeze frame and processed as a photo(.jpg file) with Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9. To get better detail, I re-sized it to a larger size and increased the pixel count to 300, then converted it to black and white. I sharpened the image to 25 on a 100 scale. The last step was to apply contrast which really brought out the shape better.
The video was shot at the Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia airshow several years ago. I was shooting from the control tower's walkway- really high up!
So...what the heck is this thing? Although it appears to be moving from left to right, the camera follows the AV-8 Harrier and results in a pronounced movement of the object in the background. This camera movement could result in the object's actual travel being right to left. If this is the case, we could be looking at a conventional aircraft such as an airliner. The objects reflection around the body area seams a bit large in relation to an airliner, but atmospheric distortions come into play at that distance.