Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Could it just be compression when someone cropped it and converted to png or whatever.
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.