I don’t know answers to those questions. I ran across this link on another thread. I also ran across this report of the event (maybe others have read this, but I hadn’t) and found quotes from Langley Research Center. Image was caught on Satellite. Read here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/11/mystery-contrail-was-plane-pentagon
Another eye witness report is recorded in the LA Times. The girl’s name is Kelly Spear. She lives in San Pedro and she took pictures. That is reported here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/10/local/la-me-1110-mystery-missile-20101110/2
So now we have a satellite view of it which describes it as looking like it was headed straight for Catalina and this Kelly Spear who assumed it was coming from Vandenburg AFB. Surely someone with math skills can take these accounts and approximate a direction and beginning point? I know there are other eye witness accounts. Several logged in to post comments on the KCBS web site. I don’t know why so many insist on saying no one but the Copter pilot saw it.
I haven’t been able to find a reference to the video being seized by the DOD as someone had said earlier and I mistook for factual, however, the reporter, Gil Leyvas, has a facebook account. I do not use facebook, so perhaps he has said something there?
Anyway, I believe there is more info. available if one is willing to dig for it.