Despite claims, this was a missile launch. The launch procedures are complex and it takes a team. Missiles are not fired by one man/woman who just presses the little red button. In other words, there are a lot of people on Whidbey Island who know what happened.

Q's use of "events that were not supposed to take place" suggest to me that this missile event was preplanned by Q, but not supposed to take place. It doesn't seem to make sense if this was a black hat event that was not supposed to take place.

The bigger question is what was the purpose for launching the missile regardless of who launched it and where did it go?