It's pretty clear the contrail is being lighted from below by the Sun below the horizon. That's why there's so much red light.
BTW, no one reported a missile launch the week before either.
The cloud of exhaust vapor is clearly bending around the curve of the Earth along the track of the plane.
In the oldest parts the light getting to the camera has had to travel through more air ~ maybe 50 to 100 miles in fact ~ and this results in a degree of magnification ~ particularly as compared to the parts further East (the ones overhead as the plane is beginning its descent phase into Ontario airport East of LA).
There's no missile here ~ just an airplane.
No. He stated the event the previous Thursday was not as spectacular as this one. When he first saw this on Monday, he radioed (or perhaps his radio man) whatever, radioed back to headquarters that the weird event was occurring again.
We also have a possible second video of the event on Monday. Would be nice to get the raw CBS videos with time stamps. Can we subpoena them ? After all, it is our lives that are at stake if these were foreigners.