You should contact the flight crew of UPS902 and ask them if the "missile" flew past them, considering they had the exact same flight path.
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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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You should contact the flight crew of UPS902 and ask them if the "missile" flew past them, considering they had the exact same flight path.
He thinks it was far out to sea, behind/northwest of UPS902. He does believe he saw UPS902 far to the south of the object he was viewing, because he specifically compared that contrail, which was obviously a jet liner, to this object, which was NOT obviously a jet liner.
He was adamant that he is not claiming it was a missile, but that he has seen too many jet contrails, including the one he assumes was UPS902, to accept the jet contrail explanation at face value.
Gil vaguely recalls reading an article the following day that quoted an FAA report that stated there was no flight activity in the area where he was shooting this video.
He reviewed the video footage repeatedly and that leads him to believe he was fairly exact in marking the location of the contrail. He said the LA harbor jetty is clearly in view in part of the video (that was not shown on TV or online), and he lined up the contrail in question with the curvature of that jetty from their position and 1200 foot elevation.
I'm no pilot, and have no background in anything military or avionic, so I'm just going by what the first hand eyewitness told me.
Also, to his knowledge his pilot at the time was NOT the pilot some internet sources claim had extensive military background, and the pilot was only able to view the footage on a 4 x 6 monitor in the cockpit in the live feed from his camera. The pilot did not see it first hand.
So we have to do your homework ? Do you have a phone ?