Operation High Dive

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See also: Operation Crash-Dive

Operation High Dive was a top-secret project carried out during the 1950s by the United States Air Force. It was designed to test high-altitude parachutes using anthropomorphic dummies. The Dummies quickly went into a 200 rpm flat spin, which would be fatal. Further investigations on this led to Project Excelsior. It may later have been confused with Project Mogul and thus helped form the account of the Roswell UFO Incident.^{[citation needed]}