The PILOT has 11 years experience of observing, from helicipters, LA area skies including overseas flights AND missile launches. He knows from first-hand eyewitness experience, as do I and many others who've lived all our lives on the California coast almost entirely within 25 to 160 miles of VAFB launches, that launches -- some of them space satellite launches, and some of them defense missile test launches -- can for a brief stretch of days, weeks, or months happen at the same time and in the same place from night to night, week to week, every-other-daily, or some other routine schedule.
You live in the midwest. Why don't you tell me all about your experience with Ca coastal skies in a 160-mile radius of VAFB and include how many missile launches of any kind, anywhere, that you have seen first-hand.
Did you see this launch first-hand?
Why did the pilot see the same thing a day or so before?
How many missiles have the Chinese launched towards the west coast of the US?
Has anyone asked the pilot if he will go back to the same spot, same time of day, and see if he can get more video?
Why did both occurrences coincide with commercial overseas flights, and NEITHER coincided with ANY KNOWN MISSILE LAUNCH?
If it was a missile, where did it go?