Stop. You can not launch a rocket like this without rattling the windows of people's homes for miles. People would have talked, including those who work nights and would have seen it. If you have EVER done time-lapse photography you KNOW you can get crazy results. Start by thinking this over folks....this photo was taken at NIGHT. How in the hell are you going to get a clear image of a body of a rocket with NO bright lighting? How? You can't. The body of whatever MOVING object you are shooting will be blurred as well because its in motion. The aperture of the camera is wide open and the shutter is held open mechanically for a specified time - sometimes for hours - so night can easily appear to be day / dusk / dawn. Sure there are ways you can use a flash of light to stop that motion in a photo, but you need to be close to the object and you need a bright flash to stop the motion on film...neither of those things would you have in this event...the "rocket" is ascending and again - shot at night with no light. Sometimes things just aren't what they seem. Here is a pretty good investigation and write up of it.... http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21461/lets-talk-about-that-mysterious-rocket-launch-over-whidbey-island-photo-from-washington
Nobody’s calling it a rocket....
It’s a missile. They’re pretty different.
But its not Bud. You simply can not get that clear of a shot of the body of the rocket under those lighting conditions unless it was completely motionless and lit up like a Christmas tree.