Take a look at the satellite images of the contrail. Even taking into account of the angle and perspective of the sat image you can get an idea of how far off the coast this persistent contrail was. The contrail shows that what you are witnessing is a not a vertical launched ballistic missile. The Hermosa beach images also show the true perspective of this persistent contrail. It is heading towards the coast and not away as described by Gil Leyvas.
The CBS video is edited for effect. Consider that the suggested burner portion of that tape is repeated and slowed down for effect? The video does not show a continuous track of light as you suggest.
Fine wordsmithing, there. What the Leyvas' video DOES show is a vertical launch. Period. The sunlight tells us this. All the trimming and editing in the world of the video's immages doesn't change the direction of the sun and how it illuminates the plume, and IF IT DID, tell us why still shots are perfectly acceptable for the airplane sides' reubttals, but inadmissiable on the part of Leyvas' film? Any clip, no matter HOW it is edited from what came before or after it, is the equivalent of a bunch of still shots taken one after the other.
PEOPLE, pay attention and notice when the airplane people go to so much trouble to KEEP YOU FROM WATCHING THE VIDEO. They don't want you to watch it because they KNOW perfectly well a video of a missile shot shows both time and movement in terms the eye can more easily compute; those airplane folks so intent on distracting you from the original Leyvas video understand that still shots of missiles AND ESPECIALLY airplane contrails are excellent tools for deception; it's much harder to deceive using a video.