Looks like the cruiser had a device that homed in on the laser spot!
The missile strike is at 1 minute 09 seconds in the video, which also has footage of a cruise missile in American Airlines livery being loaded onto a B52 Bomber, another version of the same photo without the AA paint, turned up in a 2003 Joe Vialls story titled .. CIA False Flag Attack on Kuwaiti Shopping Mall.
The bystander's eyes in the shot at left have been blacked over proving the photo has been shopped, however it could have been done to confuse the fact that the AA paint has been shopped out of the shot at right.
The highlighted object in the image above right which is the first frame in the only officially released footage of the Pentagon strike, resembles the nosecone on the cruiser and the streaking object in the moving video above!
It seems the plane climbing above the Pentagon either launched the missile or flew directly over it to disguise its approach, the cruise missile on the test range has an identical blast signature.
Above, N644AA2 Flght 77 the aircraft "they" say struck the building - Right, From Pentacon.com a computer animation of the flyover compiled from the testimony of numerous eye witnesses.
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At left above the latest mystery plane which is thought to be the same aircraft seen climbing over the Pentagon during its approach, the previous mystery plane pictured over the White House at 9:44 am on 11 September 2001, was a highly modified E-4B Boeing 747 operated by the National Airborne Operations Center.