Now note the following three locations on the plot above for Flight #5. First is the location of Roswell base itself. Second is the larger red arrow pointing to the closest approach of Flight #5 to Roswell AAF. See how it passed within about 4 miles of the base. Finally, the small arrow points to the crash site noted on this original graphic. It is only about 16 miles east of the base.
The next plot is Charles Moore's original Flight #4 trajectory plot from 1995 on which he also adds plots of Flights #5 and #6. In the legend beneath the plot, high-lighted in yellow, Moore wrote, "The plot for Flight #5 was taken without change from Figure 32...", i.e. the plot directly above.
Although Moore claimed he made no changes to this plot, he actually made three, as noted on the graph in red letters below. First, he removed Roswell base from the map. Now it is no longer obvious just how close the flight actually came to the base, as in the original graphic. In its place, he put "Roswell", but now meaning Roswell town instead of Roswell base, as the original Flight #5 graphic had it. Since Roswell town was 6 miles north of the base, this has the effect of seemingly increasing the distance between Flight #5 and "Roswell". Furthermore, Moore pushed Roswell town 2-3 miles further to the west than where the Flight #11 graphic above locates it.
And finally, Moore pushed the crash site 13 miles further to the east than the original Flight #5 plot. Moore now has the distance between "Roswell" and the crash site as 31 miles, instead of 16 miles in the original plot. By playing games with the graphic, he has also doubled the distance between "Roswell" and the crash site.
Moore also changed the original plot for Flight #6, altering azimuths and altitudes to get the crash location to square with the trajectory plot. Although these manipulations are questionable, at least Moore was direct in stating what he had done. |