How do you know that its trajectory wasn’t from beyond the horizon at FL350, flying on a trajectory parallel to the surface having a vector generially in the direction of the camera and then at some distance from the camara the object begins decending and the vector of the object is now directly towards the camara such that the contrail being emitted by the object becomes obscured by the object itself.
Using spherical trigonomety: how far out does an object at FL350 need to be to become visable over the horizon? What angle of decent is required for such object’s most recent contrail to coincide, i.e., overlap, its earlier emitted contrail?
When you see a broomstick held at right angle to your prespective, what happens to the apparent length of the broomstick as it is brought closer to your position? What occurs when the broomstick’s longitudinal axis becomes parallel to its motion at right angle to your position? When the broomstick is orientated in such manner, how does its apparent lenght change as it approaches your position?
As another just said:
You’re making my point for me.
This footage was shot immediately off the coast of southern CA. LAX radar showed 63 other aircraft in close proximity to this object at exactly the same time, yet there are no other contrails visible anywhere in the sky. This visual data is backed up by satellite imagery which shows no contrails. How is it that every other aircraft in the vicinity, with the same atmospheric conditions, is leaving no visible evidence such as a contrail? They were all doing the same thing as this object (moving up or down under their own propulsion), same conditions, but no contrails.
Moreover,if the pilot saw nearly the exact same thing the day before... why would he film this and present it to the media as a possible missile launch? Why would he get so excited, if this is such a common occurrence? Unless the NEARLY EXACT SAME THING was, in fact, the exact same thing... a missile.
A convex vapor trail suggests a ballistic trajectory, which passenger planes do not fly.