Strange object formed when saving camera-RAW file as TIFF

Perhaps someone has a clue as to what the strange circular object  seen on the picture below might be (on the upper-left area of the  photo), because I have no idea.
My best, yet  uninformed, guess is that this is an electronic random generation of  single-value white and gray pixels within my Photoshop CS3 program.
This is how the "circular object" came into existence:
-  With a Canon 5D camera on tripod I shot this night view of San  Francisco's Union Square Macy's store.  Camera data: 5" @ f/8, ISO 50,  23mm focal length, EF17-40mm f/4L USM lens, 2010-Nov-12, 6:37pm, Max.  RAW size setting.
- Later on with Photoshop CS3 I saved  the camera-RAW file as a TIFF; straightened converging vertical lines  with Perspective, and selected the entire black-sky area over Macy's  roof; within that selection only, applied a 12x exposure increase to obtain  hidden data from shadows; that's when the black, gray, cyan and blue  pixels right over the roof appeared... as well as the circular object in  question.
- Later attempts to recreate the circular  object--following the exact same steps of the first RAW-to-TIFF  conversion--render the same black, gray, cyan and blue pixels over Macy's  roof, but NOT the circular object.  The circular object formed only ONCE, during the very first RAW-to-TIFF conversion.  Obviously, all further JPG copies of the original TIFF file do carry the circular object.
- Have you had  similar "mysterious" Photoshop "creations" in your images?  Do you  have any theories as to what in the world this circular object is?  If  so, please write me at [email protected]
Thank you,
Juan

What comes to mind is the Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw.  I just fooled with a dark image and was able to make it show something similar to what you're seeing by clicking the adjustment brush in a dark part.  When I opened the image the circular area was essentially invisible, but it became quite visible upon pushing the Exposure up.  In this case I could not push it up to 12x as you did; only about 5x.
-Noel

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