...I actually worked at Cape Canaveral on compound #16, rigging Pershing II missles with telemetry and then launching them into the Atlantic.Excellent!That 'contrail' looked exactly like the trail our missles left in the sky, at about the same tempature and same humidity. Exactly.
I have also watched shuttles launch and and many Trident missles...
:Perhaps YOU can address some of the key issues around this event:
1 - Could the TV station have "doctored" the video that they released -- perhaps not out of evil intent, but in the pursuit of "good television" -- so that an airplane contrail LOOKED LIKE a missle launch?That is, if they slpiced together different parts of their ten minutes of raw footoge -- mixing up the order of the clips -- so that it APPEARED to change speed and direction in ways that it did not -- would that effect your analysis of what happened?
2 - What does the kind of missile launch that you are familiar with look like -- UP CLOSE?
What kind of SOUND would people on commercial boats nearby hear?
What would a missle launch like you are familiar with LOOK LIKE -- to nearby observers?
What would you expect for observers thirty-five miles away, on shore -- to see and hear during a missile launch like this?
The key to the analysis it the timeline analysis on Rick Warren's images. Gil Leyvas's video is portrayed as a fast moving ballistic event that headed out away from the mainland US. The LAX webcam and Rick Warren's images show that the object was heading inland. The timeline of the stills show that it was far too slow to have been a ballistic missile launch. If it had been then the missile would have been long gone.
If CBS has shown the full unedited tape it would show that the formation of the contrail and events after would have been far too slow for a ballistic missile.