This is interesting because as I was driving home today, I was heading east which put the sun behind me as it was just about to dip below the mountain line. I put my sunglasses on because it was still super bright and I was going to be soon facing west looking directly into the sun. As I put my sunglasses on, I looked in my rearview mirror because the sun was directly in it, but was quite a bit filtered in brightness because of my tinted back window, my mirror which had adjusted for brightness, and my UV protected sunglasses. I was able to actually look directly at it for a few seconds (because of all those tinted filters)... and remember thinking how cool it would be to be able to look at the sun with your own eyes and see sun flares... because that's what it looked like I saw. A bulge on the edge of the sun. I could see the exact shape of the sun perfectly.. except for a small bulge off to the left.
I just assumed it's hard to look "directly" the sun, and that my vision would obviously play tricks on me through multiple "filters". Then I saw these posts. So, who knows.
So... here is what I suggest... tomorrow... we all check out the sun. See if it's still there. The spot... not the sun

edit: Well, being that it is a lens flare (I just finished reading the rest of the thread)... I'm going to go with my original thought... that even though I could see the shape of the sun perfectly... it still wasn't perfect enough Too many glass and plastic fliters

This guy on Youtube is claiming that is NOT a lens flare. This is what he says:

@JibbyJedi
Thats the reflection of the light on the glass that sits infront of the lense of the camera, the camera picks that up first which is why it looks like it is on top of his finger, and thats also why the light coming off the sun is on top of his finger, and the "real" lense flairs that are moving about with the camera are on top aswell.
smokey66662

Any camera lens experts on here? Can anyone verify if this is a lens effect or flare?

THESE PHOTOS ARE SHOWING UP MORE FREQUENTLY.

I find it hard to believe that all of them are glare or sun spots or dirty lenses. There is an object on the back left side of our sun. What is it is the question people should be demanding an answer too. PlanetX, Nibiru, Brown Drawf? Whatever it is, it wasn't visible to the naked eye a few years ago.

I don't think I would be making smart A%% comments on something I couldn't explain. I would think people would actually try to see if they themselves could catch it on film. The more people get, the less they can claim it's everyones imagination.

this does not apply in this case
if you want to check thats fine
you misunderstand i fear
yes let the mods decide now get back on topic
and stop wasting posts

as these are my replies to two totally different threads
the people involved in the two different threads on my assumption will be different people(i have not checked)
therefore i am conversing with the two groups of people separtately, on THEIR threads
if i had started 2 threads on the same thing...YES
but i have started 0 threads
YOU MISUNDERSTAND
the all seeing eye was a bit of humour
youve got some lenses i belive ,,but untill you get a lense that is as dark as 2 welding lenses you wont see it in the picture
THINK ABOUT IT before throwing your toys out the pram
lets see your pictures with your lense on,,,to see if its DARK ENOUGH