Wow... this is still going on? Holey cow...
I have an honest question for you (or anyone else that still believes this was a missile):
You have said that this is a missile launch, and it is being covered up by the government. Honest question: Why?
What possible reason could there be to deny a missile launch? Nobody gets freaked out over that sort of thing. Everybody understands and expects that there are military missile tests all the time. They’re no big deal. Even if the purpose of it is some super-secret new missile or whatever... they would just say it was an ordinary test launch and everybody would yawn and go on about their business.
Even if it was somebody’s elses... and we wanted to cover it up... Well, the obvious way to do that is to just claim it was one of ours. Slam dunk. Nobody’s the wiser.
Sure, the pictures look similar to a missile. They also look similar to an aircraft. For me... When I saw the video it was obvious that it was moving far, far too slow to be a missile. Plus... the contrail is lit from below by a sun that’s already set. That means it has to be heading east.
But why cover it up if it was otherwise when they simply don’t have to? Just doesn’t make any sense.
I don't pretend to know the reason, and I never HAVE pretended to know the reason. As Werhner von Braun might have said, "That's not my department." All I know is that this was a missile launch and that a whole lot of effort is going into convincing people that it wasn't.
At first, I thought it was probably just a good thing to shut up on the premise of "loose lips sink ships." Maybe I was correct, that it is in our nation's best interest for "the people" to think it was an airplane. But I have come to think now that it is certainly a bad thing when smart, educated, good fellow Americans are duped in this manner. It is scary to me.
Let's say it was launched from a submerged site ( one of ours), but was launched by some foreign power... one that wasn't able to arm the nuke on board... Would that be worth lying about? Or maybe they were able to 'arm' the nuke but chose not to... If Americans thought our nukes could be re-aimed at our cities, it would cause a panic. Right?
Classified. Numerous experts have speculated that it was classified. Have you ever been through a debriefing ?