last friday i was flying into philadelphia international airport and was looking out of the window at the ground and also the clouds when i saw below and to the right of us a plane which seemed to be a fighter jet flying just above the clouds or a little bit into them i know im paranoid( and a bad speller) but was there a fighter escort or maybe a shadow of our plane from the sun above us ( we were in a holding pattern so i understand we changed posistions in accordance to the sun)
it was at the top of the cloud boundary, and below you. It was opposite the sun.
This is not where a fighter escort would typically be flying; it would be beside you to be seen easily, or behind you where it would be both hard to see and easy for it to shoot you. Below, in the clouds, with you in the sun, is about as bad an escort position as one can imagine.
Shadow is very possible.
A fighter is possible, but if so it was not escorting you.
Airplane shadow on clouds, surrounded by a Glory.