Here's a picture of the specific alleged helicopter.
For those who doubt that this could like like a wide missile...consider this.
If we accept that the non-vapourtail is actually a persistance-of-perception streeetched lightbeam, from the helicopter underside (painting the sky, downwards, from the port&starbord light origin points)...its width (ie that of the putative non-missile) must equal that lightshow.
And the non-missile then equates to a 'colour blotch' snub-shaped helicopter dimensional extremity blur, rectangularly-extrapolated in the line of travel (always just ahead of the light it back-casts).
A chroma-sum of the black-red-white+scatterlight could easily approximate to the (unaerodynamic, wide, short) brown artefact we see, making fun of us.
And I suspect this *is* an instance where the photo owner had his own pedestrian analysis, of this, already on (or under) the table. I predict he HAS seen pictures exceedingly-similar to this, before, taken by
his weathercam.