reposting because why not.
close and large. i believe it was a tomahawk.
posted about it this morning - the CoC for a tomahawk launch is very short. decision/designation/trigger.
it's all a matter of perspective. that weather cam was a mile or two away, maybe?
depends on where the launch was. the camera is 7-8 miles from the island across the bay…if the sub was between the two, it was closer, but the way the light hits off of the clouds, it might be a trick of the eye…in any case, the perspective matters - and if you look at the ratio of trail-width to missile in my little five-minute graphic (copy/pasted several layers of that one missile) it looks 'similarly' sized.
we have nothing definitive, i know, but.
IF Q is true
and
IF whidbey was a US based submarine missile
then
It's likely to have been a Tomahawk
AND
the CoC for a non-nuke Tomahawk is three stages minimum.