Your post reminded me of one of the aspects of this that may be confusing people: The video zoomed in on it.
I’ve actually used a 70 power telescope to watch airplanes create contrails. Sometimes they appear pretty close to the plane, and sometimes they don’t start until a ways behind the plane. But what is visually interesting when looking through a telescope, and in this video when it zooms in, is that you get a better grasp of just how fast the plane is going.
Sure, in the video it doesn’t move all that fast across the screen, but it still “seems” faster than most planes creating contrails appear to the naked eye.
I now see that a lot of visual elements to this story “conspire” to make people (yes, even “experts”) think this is a missile. But when one looks objectively at the footage and compares it to other missile launches and airplane contrails, it’s pretty obvious what this is.
Which is why the government has little to say. It’s just another plane coming back from Hawaii during a beautiful sunset.
Oh - I have an open mind on the subject. To me the speed of the object in front of the contrail seem to be going much faster than an airliner. Maybe an optical allusion - but
I am not a conspiracy guy... but I have questions - that your answer and many others do not really answer...
But there is always a gap, even if only a few tens of feet behind the plane, before the exhaust condenses water vapor in the air. And there are always separate trails from each jet engine for a distance before they merge into one. Nowhere in this film, even when zoomed, is there a gap between the vehicle and the contrail or separate trails from multiple engines. The contrail immediately billows from the vehicle instead of gradually dispersing as a vapor trail does. It looks nearly identical to the contrail of a shuttle launch.