The object / spacecraft in the cropped enlargement above, has the appearance of the Native American 'THUNDERBIRD'. The 'Thunderbird' spacecraft or object is cropped and enlarged from the U.S. satellite telescope, SOHO. The full image appears further down this webpage.
 

In the image below, the SUN is at the centre (and is masked to stop damage to the telescope); the bright object out to the right of the Sun is the planet VENUS. Apparently associated with the horizontal beam of light coming from Venus, is the THUNDERBIRD-like object / spacecraft. Is this actually a spacecraft of some sort? Or is it a projected image - perhaps from Venus?
 

This strange object / craft / projection has been covered in some depth for approximately four years at this website: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com
 

THE SUNCRUISER

At Cyberspaceorbit, there is a webpage which is devoted to this subject of the mysterious, huge craft or object which occasionally appears close to the Sun:

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/cruiser_demo.html

 

See this webpage:  2005 Rainbow Around The Sun

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U.S. Satellite Telescope, SOHO: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

Note on SOHO Images: If you go to the government website to try to retrieve archived images of these significant events, you may not be successful. A few hours after Seti posted her 'Winged Ship by the Sun' message, I went to the government website, and I found several images with the object / craft in them. When I returned a few minutes later, the images had gone. So then I hunted around the website for archives of different resolution images. There they were! I downloaded and saved these images very quickly. I felt I was in a 'hacking' movie, and was in a race against the deletions of the government webmaster.