Originally Posted by aviatorhi

SAMs do not match pictures and you'd be hard pressed to have a ground observer identify anything useable in that area under those conditions (hard pressed to even misidentify something). I guess we have a new angle for the conspiracy theory crowd.

Ostensibly, a more realistic scenario involves times/location not being communicated correctly, but that is all still rather far fetched and you're dealing with an error well in excess of 50 miles.