[Ronald_Magnus]

I watched the video. There's an obvious corkscrew effect on the "plume". Doesn't that weaken your missile theory somewhat? Corkscrewing effect in contrails is caused by wingtip vorticity. Granted, missiles can possess wings, but their size would never produce such a dramatic effect...imo. Here's a pic of an MD-11. The grouping of the three contrails seemingly into one is evident, along with the corkscrewing effect. I guess my question to you is, can you explain the dramatic corkscrewing effect of your "missile" in the video? Thanks.

[Finny]

Well, for one, I wouldn’t call it “dramatic” corkscrewing in the video — I’ve seen much more dramatic corkscrewing in other missile launches. I would also say that the object in your photo looks like an airliner leaving contrails.

[Finny]

And in fact, RM, looking again at that photo, though it is a still shot and still shots are generally useless for determining missile-plume-vs-contrail ID, I can safely say I would always and immediately indentify the object in that photo as an airplane. Its resemblance to a missile is first-glance superficial.