Still, listen to the fellow who filmed it. He said it was coming in from the West and going to the East. Amazing eh?! http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7040407n&tag=related;photovideo
Know what? NO ONE IN THE LINK YOU POST said "it was coming in the Est and going to the East."
Not the cameraman, not the two talking heads. NO ONE MADE THAT CLAIM.
One of the talking heads said the cameraman said he thought it looked like an incoming missile; from the Santa Monica area, something headed north-west would look incoming due to the curve of the coastline. Neither you nor I know if the cameraman actually said that, or if he said it and explained that while it may have looked "incoming" it was actually not, which is entirely within the realm of something he would say and how it would be misreported. Also, the camerman doesn't say he focused on the missile for ten minutes -- the talking head says the reporter "stayed on it" for ten minutes. The talking head is a boob who probably thinks filming the remains of a missile plume is the same as "staying on it." The cameraman, at least in this video, made no such claim, NOR did he OR ANYONE ELSE say it was east-bound.
The sun tells you where the missile was going. The sun tells you it was going in a north-westerly direction.