[aruanan]

Mysterious missile launch most likely US Air flight 808

No way in the world that is a passenger jet. There have been thousands upon thousands of passenger jets flying their customary routes for many years. Besides, this was far too fast for a passenger jet and, as it reached the apogee of its flight, the combustion was clearly visible, something you don't see in a passenger jet. I've seen many rocket launches and even more jet contrails. This was the former, not the latter.

I'll tell you this, if Los Angeles or Chicago gets nuked by such a missile, the story from the Pentagon will be that it was a small asteroid impact, that they had only seen it hours before and had no time to order an evacuation, and, hey, people have been warning about this danger for years and now it's happened. So sad.

[CharlesWayneCT]

But watch the video again, and realise you are not watching a “launch”. You are watching a rather short clip of a contrail. Your brain is equating that image to an image it has seen before. But you don’t see the contrail being formed by this “rocket”. You can’t even see the rocket. You see a couple of glints that look like sunlight that seem to be at the end of the contrail.

The “combustion” you say you see is a light pattern covering maybe 10 pixels of a digital image that is shot from a moving platform at a distance of (if you are correct) over a hundred miles.

At that distance, what you are “seeing” in the image is what the digital processing on the camera THINKS is there.

[D-fendr]

How could a missile be launched 30 miles from a city of over nine million and only two people notice it?

[RinaseaofDs]

How many passenger landing strips do we have 35 miles off the coast of California for commerical heavy traffic? That’s where the trail began - the middle of the ocean.