Reflection on a shape

Hello all. I am facing a problem that I have never seen in my experience with Photoshop before. When I place a shape on top of a back ground I get a reflection of sorts that I cannot get to go away. It seems to only happen when the shape color is white (which is what I need the color to be for this project). Can someone please help.

As you can see, the reflections show up on the right side of each rectangle. I haven't changed any settings since installation and haven't seen this issue until this particular project.

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I wondered if for the speed of the fall I could just have reflection MC set for him upright and a reflection MC set for him fallen and Classic Tween those ?...or could the combined shape seen by the human eye per frame be given reflection. Thats still 29 frames each with a different shape.
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try it.
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