[Red in Blue PA]

[Blueflag]

Actually this one makes sense as a contrail.

Note that it is dissipating in its distal portion.

Note how intact it is near the aircraft.

Not how it is WIDER and more distinct as the aircraft approaches the camera.

Contrast the above with the pics from LA.

I don’t know what that was out in CA, but it was either the world’s oddest perspective on a contrail, or ... it was an exhaust plume.

[pabianice]

I suspect the mystery CA launch was a U-2/TR-2 from NAS POINT MAGU or Moffett Field. They initially climb at a 45-60 degree angle to the horizon.

[RetSignman]

YOU DECIDE...YOU BETTER BELIEVE YOUR LYIN' EYES.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Left, then right, then middle?

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Enlarge that a bit, and I’ll bet you could count the engines on that airplane.

[IrishCatholic]

That one looks like a contrail and If I saw it, I wouldn't think twice.
The California one? That was a missile.

[bkepley]

I don’t care if it is contrails those nasty Chinese or Koreans shouldn’t be firing contrails at us either.

[Smokin' Joe]

Was there a center fuel tank explosion up there anywhere?

[Blood of Tyrants]

That is a simple contrail. It dissipates fairly rapidly and is easily seen to be above the clouds on the horizon.

[decimon]

There used to be better sundowns in that location. The photochemical smog in Jersey must have lessened.

[SpaceBar]

Just more swamp gas.

[Nahanni]

The MSM sure is trying to manufacture an “Oklahoma City type event” to try to save Teh Won.