Let me guess. You've never seen a missile launch, but you've seen lots of contrails. And in all this time, you've never been fooled for long into thinking a contrail was a missile, but you can understand it if ....
a) an 11-year-local professional airborne cameraman in one of the world's most competitive markets didn't know the dif between a horizontal airline contrail and a vertical missile plume at sunset!
b) Multiple Air Force Generals and an editor from Jane's were dunderheaded simps
c) It was only natural that there'd be an intense, immediate counter-response very heavy on unverifiable and/or unsourced still shots of supposedly the same moving event combined with numbing mathematical calculations, graphs, charts, arrows, and lines to prove an optical illusion!
....Or ....
a) A missile was fired off the Southern California coast, a traffic cameraman got footage of it, and nobody wants to officially own it.
Occam's Razor calls are laughable. Just like those photos that supposedly "prove" that contrails can look exactly like what was in Leyvas' video, but actually reveal shiningly the dif between an underlit horizontal contrail and a vertical plume. Big as the nose on your face. Some people here point and yell "Occam's Razor!" at its opposite, in order to convince themselves that a missile was an airplane.
Yikes.
Just answer one question. Why is the "missile" so slow?
numbing mathematical calculations, graphs, charts, arrows, and lines to prove an optical illusion!
You see, that's where we differ. I have been trained in science and math and have made my living on them for 40 years. I do NOT find the things you mentioned "numbing." I find them informative and I understand them. And they make scientific and mathematical sense.
From my experience I have learned that 90+% of the general public does not have a clue about how anything scientific works. You tell me about generals? I know a guy who works for NASA who told me gold was a better conductor than silver and copper. So I'm supposed to believe him just because he works at NASA?