Actually- what the pilot said this was similar to ONE he saw last Thursday. He phoned it in to the station because he was seeing another one- saying this one was more dramatic. It would have been useful if the station asked him for the record IF this looks like the dozens of other contrails he’s seen in the past.
(From David Martin, CBS...today)
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.