Some of these objections are so broad the exclude the possibility of a legit optical illusion.

Most of the stuff we see in space isn’t there. The day sky isn’t blue, the night sky isn’t black, stars don’t twinkle, etc.

Our military sensors are specifically trained to exclude most phenomena.

Is it so much to believe that optical illusion are common at high altitudes?

And that militaries don’t like their pilots “seeing things?”