UFO spotted off California Coast: What was it?

This week, the 24/7 newscasts went ballistic (no pun intended) over a supposed missile launch off the California coast this week. Some said missile, some said airplane and a nutty few insisted aliens were here. Have we become so stupid a nation that we can't see what something is anymore just by looking at it? I'll admit, I'm better qualified than most to identify anamolies due to years of analyzing videos of supposed UFO's taken since the 60's. That combined with an in depth knowledge of video equipment, special effects and photography expertise make me more than qualified to determine what it was. And I'm sorry to disappoint all the conspiracy theorists out there but this video looks nothing like a missile launch. However, it does look a lot like a commercial airplane. We know this because missiles travel much, much faster than your average plane and this isn't traveling at super sonic speeds. So it's either the slowest, most ineffective missile ever invented or it's a plane. You decide. One helicopter pilot claimed to have witnessed the missile for over ten minutes as it soared over the water. In that amount of time, a missile, especially if it was an intercontinental one, would have been halfway around the planet by then. Here is an example of where the MSM is far superior to the Internet blogosphere. Sure, the MSM lies to us on an almost regular basis by not telling us the facts about just about anything like the true unemployment rate (22.5% and climbing meaning we are still mired in Depression era levels), how the super rich are getting away with all sorts of crimes like hit and run and statutory rape, or how bad things are getting for anyone wanting to fly and not getting raped by the TSA. But here, I think they are dead on about the most reasonable answer of a plane being the culprit. Wayne Madsen, a conspiracy theorist who used to work for the NSA and has been right about a few things in his past, has claimed the object was a Chinese missile, being used as saber rattling in a heating currency war, Possible but unlikely because if the Chinese wanted to shock and awe us, a missile with the land speed of a diseased turtle is hardly going to impress anyone. Feeding the furor, another contrail was filmed over NYC but this one was without a doubt a contrail from a plane. Conspiracy theories have come over the net from the most likely to see conspiracies everywhere. A site I quite like Whatreallyhappened has gone the conspiracy way but Mike Rivello has a tendency to do that. Any time anything happens, no matter how trivial, it's a conspiracy. Even if it wasn't. For example, Rivello was quick to jump all over the two idiots who tried to blow up an airport in Scotland, as a possible false flag operation. It wasn't. Same with the undies bomber or the Time Square moron. However, there are real conspiracies out there that we need to watch like the government's real time slide into fascism or 9/11. When everything is a conspiracy we dilute the real problems that are out there with stories about JFK or Martin Luther King's deaths being lumped in with ridiculous theories. Focus on JFK Jr's plane crash for example and suddenly your entering whack job territory. For the record, his plane crashed due to inexperience and dense fog. I know as I lived not far from where his plane took off and it was some of the thickest fog I've ever been in. Unless you believe the fools out there who claim it was a clear, fogless night. The people who weren't there of course or bothered to read a weather report for the night are the ones most easily fooled. And we are becoming a people too easily deceived? The last election cycle would say we are. God help us all if that is true.