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Image analysis
The best quality image that I can find is at: https://jamesaconrad.com/media/Solway-Spaceman-photo.html

The most likely thing that the spaceman figure could possibly resemble, is a bird. Anybody that has brought a supermarket chicken for roasting and held it up by the wings, will recognise the shape and proportions. The right hand side appendage particularly resemble a wing. If you zoom into the face, you will see that it is not a plain black flat visor but instead an animal like snout. The shading across the face does not fade gradually from one side to the other as it would with a rounded shape but instead there is a distinct line going straight down the middle. One side in sunshine and one side in shade suggesting that the face is stretched forward. Note also the proportions of the large rounded chest to the head and where the limbs meet the shoulders. Using the sizes of the heads of the spaceman figure against the size of the girl head in the foreground. Assuming both heads are the same size, even with a 20% margin of error we can plot a estimate of how fare back the figure is in the background. With this in mind, there is still no way to extend the missing part of spaceman figure, in proportion to a human being, all the way down to the ground. The alterative to it being mounted onto the ground is that it is free floating in the air and the only most mundane things that we know of that can do that is either a bird or a novelty balloon.

Further analysis is pending. This includes:
A possible bird model to replicate the image of the spaceman figure

Analysis of the spaceman figure by a professional naturalist

Bird data of the Solway Firth from the time of the photograph being taken, as white birds with black faced are known to possibly inhabit the area.