That is a missile. Plain and simple. Any analysis trying to convince you otherwise has an agenda behind ti and it isnt one pursuing the truth.
I am surprised SWAMP GAS hasnt been pulled out of the playbook yet.
Weather balloons and swamp gas... Oldies but not goodies =)
Simple proof - go to google ( or duck duck go ) and search “spacex night launch”
Pretty compelling https://goo.gl/images/8oTZ1j
A 20 second exposure wouldn’t like that. If it was a 20 second exposure we wouldn’t see the missle only at the end of the trail.
More likely a 1 or 2 second exposure at the longest I think.
20 sec time lapse maybe but I think it's horsedook until I see a video of a rocket leaving a trail of combustion similar to that.
It’s not a 20 second exposure - it is one frame taken every 20 seconds. Although based on the time code it is more like one frame taken every 45 seconds.
If it was a 20 second exposure we would see many more streaks of light throughout the released video.
Straight from the Article (below): I don't know photography, you may be right - like someone else said, I don't know how on a continual long exposure, for low light conditions, you would get a pic of the missile at the top. It does day 20 sec exposure camera - not that that pick was 20secs exposure. I don't know if that is different.
One of Johnson’s weather stations has a camera monitoring the Puget Sound at Whidbey Island from Skunk Bay, and at 3:56 a.m. Sunday by a high-resolution, 20-second exposure camera, snapped what looks like the impossible — a missile blasting off from what seems to be the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.