1. 军事试验（Military Experiment）
The late 1940s and early 1950s were a great time for spotting UFOs and aliens in New Mexico, primarily because that's where the Air Force was conducting some of its top-secret research. One such program was known as Project Mogul and involved floating microphone-carrying balloons to high altitudes in an attempt to pick up the sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The Air Force has since confirmed that a 1947 crash of one of those balloons created the debris that birthed the Roswell UFO Incident
1940年代末和50年代初是新墨西哥州发现UFO和外星人的美好时光，主要是因为当时空军正在进行着最为绝密的研究，称为莫卧儿项目（Project Mogul ），它涉及到把携带着浮动麦克风的气球上升到高空，企图检测到苏联试验原子弹所发生的声波。此后空军证实，1947年这些气球中的一个，因坠毁所造成的碎片，引起了当时的罗斯威尔UFO事件（Roswell UFO Incident）。
Another military experiment provided the bodies for that UFO. In the 1950s, Air Force scientists dropped several dozen anthropomorphic dummies from planes to test new high-altitude parachutes and determine whether the bodies would enter a dangerous spin as they fell. Results from these studies contributed to designs for the parachutes and pressurized suits that fighter jet pilots and early astronauts would wear. The Air Force was more than happy to allow Russian spies to think New Mexicans were a little kooky than to reveal the true military origin of the sightings.
另一个军事试验为UFO提供躯体。在上世纪的50年代，空军科学家从飞机上放下了几十个人体模型来测试新的高海拔降落伞，并用来确定当这些躯体掉下时，是否会进入危险的自旋状态。研究的结果却促成了降落伞和供战斗机飞行员和早期的宇航员的穿着的加压服装设计。空军更乐意让俄罗斯的间谍认为新墨西哥州人都有些古怪，而不是揭示所谓UFO事件的真实军事来源。
