Ok guys, i'm 99.9% sure the UP image is a distortion of our ship's hud, because http://i.imgur.com/xBSV6l9.jpg
That matches the grided circle in the UP image. (Which is big here)
The full spectrum image even has shield bars on the right and some random lines on the left that match the area where your selected target appears.
The curious thing is, only one of the 4 arcs in above picture appears in the UP image along with other random symbols. What if our first step is figuring out what this distortion is trying to ADD to our huds? Might help narrow down what we need to look at.
It was stated that it might be a hud distortion before MB said some theories were close. In case that's important to people.
This has been brought up several times already. Considering how many threadnaughts there are, it's understandable that it keeps coming up.
There's a significant difference between longitude lines and latitude lines.
Longitude lines cut a sphere several times, equally spaced as it rotates about an axis (our convention is to cut from north pole to south pole).
Latitude lines cut the sphere in PARALLEL chunks, from the equator up and from the equator down.
The display on our HUDS have LATITUDE LINES, WHICH ARE PARALLEL.
The sphere in the clue DOES NOT have lattitude lines. They are clearly curved. Both in X and Y. It's not a match.