I'll try to make this an appeal to logic. I live directly under the path of the purported "missile" and the landing approach to Pt. Mugu Naval Air Station.
I see many similar aircraft contrails daily. The CBS video distorted the contrail's perspective. It was headed inland to Phoenix and was traveling horizontally at high altitude.
Believe me -- if a foreign vessel of any kind had launched a missile in that area I'd have had to wear earplugs to dampen the noise of all the fighter-bomber sorties in and out of Mugu! As it happened it was an especially quiet night in that respect.
I've seen perhaps 20 missile launches from V-berg over the years. I admit I thought this contrail was missile exhaust at first. But when I figured out the inland-bound perspective I quickly realized it was an optical illusion. But I don't expect the True Believers to change their thinking. We have a new Roswell Myth a-making. Jesse Ventura's probably already on it like white on rice.
Good post. Good points.