Only you know if they are lying, assuming you have any direct knowledge at all. I do not believe federal agencies always tell the truth, nor that they are legally able to always tell the truth on certain topics. I do not regard the public comment of an agency regarding national security as an automatic fast-pass to their innermost secrets which they will surely share immediately in realtime with us. I am puzzled at your insistence on this topic.
The simplest conclusion is that 1) you are a fanatic in arguing for trust of the federal government’s every word, as some sort of gospel or 2) you have an ulterior motive (presumably economic) for arguing for believing every word fedgov ever utters on this particular topic.
My general rule on this sort of thing is follow the money.
If I am totally off base, it is probably from seeing too many dedicated agitators on DU who are spending too much time to have other professions that produce income.
Sorry WoofDog you are letting your theories run away with you. I am retired UK military with a hobby in aircraft photography. I have no agenda. I’ve seen several of these aircraft contrails during sunset and sunrise. I know how they can be deceptive. It is purely down to perspective. The casual observer will view them and immediately think some sort of missile.
As predicted there would be more attention paid to aircraft contrails in the region after the news footage. Other people have now captured these contrails. As you can see they are reporting them as ‘missiles’. Hopefully more of these aircraft contrails in the region will be filmed?