Yeah, it’s a missile. It’s the world’s slowest SLBM ever that tracks a perfectly horizontal shadow and all the other pictures of the same routine flight on other days are all faked. Hell, if you go out there and see it yourself it’s fake too.
Most of these clowns appear to be of the mindset of "don't let facts and common sense get in the way of a good ChiCom/US government/rogue submarine/BlaBlaBla possibility".
Sigh.....