Any clue as to how far away the person recording the video could have been? I read the distance to be 35 miles off the coast. So lets say the recording device was 35 miles away. Is there any commercial aircraft that can travel that fast leaving a contrail in seconds?
Any guess as to the distance that missile covered in the amount of video evidence we have?
No to the distance it covered without seeing it in more detail to fix a relative distance to ground objects but that detail is not needed to know it was not a commercial aircraft. An SRB contrail is distinctive and this was it. The other point is that afterburners are required to give off any resemblence of a white hot ignition at the exhaust of a jet engine but the smokey contrail is not indicative of a jet afterburner.