The video shows a payload rising on a solid-fuel booster rocket. Distance to rocket, maybe 30 to 40 miles seen from a chase angle. You can even see a flame.
It's either a missile, a lone booster or a boosted payload, launched from the middle of the ordnance testing range: NAS Point Mugu.
San Nicolas island (part of NAS Mugu) is right under the putative launch point.
Don't know why FReepers are so quick to credit 'exhaustive investigations' and ignore the evidence of their own eyes. There's video.
Because interpetation of visual data can be faulty.
It can be influenced by preconceived notions, perspective illusions, contrast and color effects.
I am inclined to agree with you - I have never seen a plane with flames coming out of the back end! There is no getting around that fact on the video.
Because there isn’t “video”. There is a video of a contrail in the sky.
The video is realy nothing more than a 10-second-long picture. Everything about “missile launch” is an interpretation of that image, an extrapolation back in time as to what might have generated the image.
But people keep saying “there’s a video” as if the video actually shows the contrail being created, when all it shows is a fixed image shot from a shaky camera from miles away that zooms in on the image.
Meanwhile, there’s another picture we can see, right here in this thread, showing the same contrail from a different angle, which you have to ignore to believe the silly story about a missile launch from NAS Point Magu that somehow NOBODY HEARD.
That is not “raw video” by definition. There are clearly 4 edits. They’re complete perspective switches.