[IYAS9YAS]

If there is such a video, it would be good to get a link. That would make this whole thing go away.

From last week: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625121/posts

Granted the shot is a web cam, but IIRC, there was actual video floating around.

[agere_contra]

Dang, that was disappointing. I was hoping for a video of a known airliner which looked similar to the ‘mystery launch’ video. One that showed a real-life airliner looking exactly like a rocket speeding away.

The link is not that. For the thread: its a still image of a distant contrail. Still images of distant contrails and still images of distant rocket plumes are practically identical.

Airliners fly along that coast every day. If the ‘launch video’ was in fact an airliner, it would be easy for a camera to take a similar ‘rocket’ video the day after - one that showed an evolving plume and a ‘flame’.

A video like that would settle this issue. This webcam image just reinforces the fact that stills of distant plumes and contrails look the same.