[TigersEye]

You can find the entire video here and 13 still pics from the video (and possibly other sources) and determine the exact running time of the video.

[Gargantua]

Wow. Thank you for that video. Entire flight time until burnout, less than 2 minutes. Both the spiraling and the way the flameout (ehxausetd fuel burnout) display so clearly here shows that this is definitely a missile. If that glow was the "sun reflecting off the fuselage," it would have kept reflecting instead of going dark (burning out) at precisely the same moment that the "contrail" stops (when the solid or liquid fuel propellant runs out).

Thank you so much for now posting this. I've downloaded it and will start the forensic examination immediately.

It's a missile, folks.

;-/

[RobRoy]

Thanks for that.

Here’s a great snippet from the article there The second part is actually pretty funny.

“The local station chopped up the video and so it’s hard to watch it continuously,” Pike said. “But at one place you can see it has changed course — rockets don’t do that.”

Pike said he didn’t understand why the military had not recognized the contrail of an aircraft. “The Air Force must …understand how contrails are formed,” he said. “Why they can’t get some major out to belabor the obvious, I don’t know.”

[Brian Kopp DPM]

OK, here's the quote from the cameraman, from the CBS News article, Military Says Missile-Like Object Wasn't Missile:

The video of what looks for all the world like the contrail of a missile was shot Monday evening by KCBS cameraman Gil Leyvas from a news helicopter over Los Angeles.

"I saw a big plume coming up, rising from looked like beyond the horizon and it continued to grow," Leyvas said.

He zoomed his camera in and stayed on it for about 10 minutes. To him it looked like an incoming missile.

"It was unique. It was moving," he said. "It was growing in the sky."

I'd like to see the other nine minutes of the video. If its nine minutes of footage of the object creating a contrail, then its definitely an airliner contrail. If only one minute of the ten minutes of footage shows a craft creating a contrail, and the rest is just footage of the contrail itself, then its probably a missile.