[Sto Zvirat]

Its been posted here many times, the glowing gas trail from the rocket as it enters the ionosphere. As for your lame attempt at an insult, I guess, since you have no data, and no way to prove your conspiracy, you have resorted to this. Which, of course means you lost.

BTW, if you have ever seen a launch at sunset, that is what the sky looks like afterward......

[TigersEye]

My conspiracy? What conspiracy? Lost? Lost what?

Sounds to me like you've lost your grip, pal

[TigersEye]

There is no guarantee that every ballistic missile enters the ionosphere under power.

Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile trajectory consists of three parts: the powered flight portion, the free-flight portion which constitutes most of the flight time, and the re-entry phase where the missile re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.

The powered flight portion can last from a few tens of seconds to several minutes and can consist of multiple rocket stages.

When in space and no more thrust is provided, the missile enters free-flight. In order to cover large distances, ballistic missiles are usually launched into a high sub-orbital spaceflight; for intercontinental missiles the highest altitude (apogee) reached during free-flight is about 1200 km.

Short- and medium-range missiles are often collectively referred to as theater or tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs).

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The flight phases are like those for ICBMs, except with no exoatmospheric phase for missiles with ranges less than about 350 km.

The world is full of different types of missiles. Basing your theories on what kind of missile it was or wasn't is pretty risky since the DoD says they don't know what it was.