I believe you... Michael Henley too couldn't see what it was.
The funny thing is, that's the same thing that is shown on both pictures... except that the first one is "full-frontal" and the second one is looking on his left.
I remember of a RAF pilot telling that he flew so low during the raids of the Operation Overlord that a ground technician found electric wires jammed on his Spitfire flaps.
Tsk Tsk... Naughty guy...
Won't it be funny, when we're all grandpas, when we can say, "I remember the times when they had F-16s, F-15s, And all those up in the sky", and unless they make a forum like ours, they won't (or only barely)have any Idea what we're on about!