It's not a suspected rocket launch. NORAD and DOD have specifically ruled out a rocket launch. DOD for ours, NORAD for all others. And NORAD has ruled out any threat. They are done with it except for having to answer questions from the curious.
It's not their priority to identify non-threatening, not rocket, contrails. They happen all the time.
So, a news story lingers of rocket launch off the coast of California for 24 hours and they think this is a good thing? When all they would have to do is an hour investigation and say, “The helicopter caught footage of flight ??? on route to HI.” Or whatever the case may be... They sure don’t have to explain every contrail, but they sure as hell should explain the ones that go national and are on every news channel, national blog in the world. Jeez, that can not be that stupid, can they???