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That was my first thought. I've seen one bolide and it flashed green and was gone in less than ten seconds.

The trail in that video is very persistent and has the hallmarks of a rocket staging. But the several rocket contrails I've seen all diffuse very widely and have lots of colors in them from the rocket fuel.

But it sure appears to be coming down. Rocket launches can have that appearance as they get down range, but do not appear to be coming down so strongly as this thing.

KRON Channel 4 just posted info:

Mystery light seen across Northern California

A mystery light was seen across Northern California skies Wednesday night, in both the Bay Area and Sacramento.
The light was spotted in the East Bay, North Bay, San Francisco and everywhere in between.
The Bay Area National Weather Service is saying the light may have been a meteor. The agency suspects the meteor created a noctilucent cloud -- which NASA says is something nearly out of this world.
According to NASA, a noctilucent cloud often resembles something from another world and is created with ingredients from outer space. The clouds were first spotted in 1885, the agency says.
The last time these type of clouds were seen in the Bay Area was in 2011, following a rocket launch, the weather service said.

To their credit, the National Weather Service didn't say it was a weather balloon.

I’ve seen them leave what appeared to be a “smoke” trail before, the ones I saw were what I took to be small bolides that eventually exploded, bright flash, sometimes smaller visible fragments continue on the trajectory. I saw a good handful of them here in NC in the last really big meteor shower that was visible here, seems it was over ten years ago, cold weather, recall staying up to watch and freezing my backside off while outside to see it.

I would suppose that height, speed, composition, and a number of other things would have a significant effect on what we see.

Late 2001, not sure, might be lying about that, late at night what appeared to be two giant glowing lithium almonds encapsulated in copper green auras flew over the field I was in. If what I had seen was the body in that picture then the green tails would easily still be off the edge of that photo.

I wish I could have gotten footage of it as Ive never seen anything similar. They must have been huge and high because they seemed to be moving slowly, moving from dead south to over the north horizon seemingly moving at about 60mph, yet they also seemed so close that I could have jumped up and grabbed them.