a story that is in effect about shadow photons necessarily appears in any explanation of the observed effects. The irreducible complexity of that story makes it philosophically untenable to deny that the objects exist.
Without the story of the shadow photons, there is no explanation sufficient so as to compute—to simulate—the result. The complex story of shadow photons necessitates that they exist—that they are as real as anything else sufficiently complex—because their complexity is required to compute the observed outcome.
