Yesterday we published an article about the connection of plague-infected rats with an unidentified flying object that fell in Roswell. A new article highlights the theory that the strange bodies of the Roswell "aliens" may have been dummies.
The ufological version of the Roswell incident is based on the fact that in July 1947 a UFO crashed there, and its crew of short gray aliens died. Several casual eyewitnesses reported seeing wreckage of a strange silvery material there, as well as unusual bodies, which were dragged on a stretcher by the military sent here to eliminate the consequences of the accident.
The official version of the incident in Roswell, New Mexico, says that in July 1947, a weather balloon from the secret Mogul project crashed in the local desert. According to this project, the meteorological probe was supposed to catch acoustic waves from the nuclear tests conducted by the USSR in the upper atmosphere.
If the unusual silvery debris can still be explained as really the remnants of a weather balloon, then what about the bodies? People could not dream of something like that at once.
In 1994, US Air Force specialists conducted a new detailed investigation of the incident in Roswell, and according to this report, they did not even manage to establish where information about the presence of "alien bodies" among the wreckage first appeared.
This 1,000-page report detailed the details that were found at the crash site, and these details, according to the assurances of the experts, do indeed match the descriptions of the weather balloons. And it also mentions that "humanoid bodies were probably dummies that were lifted into the air and then thrown down for scientific research."
As for the mysterious bodies that were seen years later at the Roswell military airfield, according to a 1994 report, these were indeed bodies, but the bodies of real people: 11 people who died in 1956 as a result of the explosion of the KS-97 aircraft and 2 seriously wounded pilot injured in a plane crash in 1959.
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But if there were mannequins in Roswell, why did they look so strange?
The same Air Force report, after the dummy version was advanced, looked at the historical record that the US Air Force frequently used dummies for crash tests. Sometimes they were humanoid dummies, which were dropped by parachutes, but sometimes the similarities were only small and in general details.
Early trials between 1918 and 1924 used "dummies" made from stuffed bags tied with rope. Such a "little man" had a corresponding nickname "Dummy Joe".
It was also reported that in 1949 a new anthropomorphic dummy was introduced into the US Air Force for use, on which the effects of acceleration in the atmosphere were tested.
The mannequins were not always found on the ground, some were lost for several years, others were carried away by the winds very far from the intended landing site. Also, from falling to the ground, many of them were severely injured, losing arms, legs, heads or fingers. This could explain why four fingers were seen on the hands protruding from under the bedspreads in Roswell.
Sometimes the isolation dummies were wrapped in silver or black material, and when they fell to the ground, they really could be mistaken for something extraterrestrial. In the Roswell archives, there is a case when a woman saw a mannequin lying in the snow, shortly before that fell from the sky, and began to shout "There's a dead man!"
This report from 1994 (released to the public in 1997) was hostile to ufologists and called another attempt to conceal information.
Most noticed that the report describes that the dropping of anthropomorphic dummies from high altitudes on air sounders began mainly in the 50s, and the Roswell incident happened in 1947. However, the first test tests with dummies on balloons could begin much earlier than the official ones.