I see it. My guess is that this is the top of the skydome that is used when you're running shaders. If it is, then there's no way of switching it off.
But, then again, it might not be.
"Call yourself alive? I promise you you'll be deafened by dust falling on the furniture,
you'll feel your eyebrows turning to two gashes, and your shoulder blades will ache for want of wings."
That post has just confirmed my suspicions. Yep, it's the skydome. Try turning on a sky-rendering shader - e.g. blackholesun.inc - and you'll see what I mean. You can go above it, too.
"Call yourself alive? I promise you you'll be deafened by dust falling on the furniture,
you'll feel your eyebrows turning to two gashes, and your shoulder blades will ache for want of wings."