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the theory of the mix-ups in dates other than speculation that
events in the 1940s and 1950s "have been consolidated'! in the.
minds of some who claim to have been witnesses.
"It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the
accurate dates for these 'alien' observations in some instances
by more than a decade and then erroneously I inked them' , . to 'the
actual recovery of Project Mogul debris, the report said.
The life-size dummies were used in high-altitude parachute drops
from 1954 to 1959 as part of Air Force projects code-named High
Dive and Excelsior. The,object was to devise a way to return a
pilot or astronaut to earth by parachute if forced to .escape at
extremely high altitudes.
The dummies were transported to altitudes up to 98,000 feet by
balloons and then released. Balloons dropped 67 dummies throughout
New Mexico in the 1954-59 period. The majority of them landed
outside the confines of military bases in eastern New Mexico, near
Roswell, according to the Air Force report.
The dummies had a skeleton of aluminum or steel, skin of latex
or plastic, a cast aluminum skull, and an instrument cavity in the
torso and head.
The Air Force said the existence of such dummies was not widely
known outside of scientific circles and "easily could have been
mistaken for something they were not. " Today such dummies are
widely used in auto crash tests.
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