But I can say with absolute certainty that: misinformation causes more problems than it solves.
Maybe. In relation to your previous statement:
This was the smoking gun I was talking about: 60 years of coverup
You must have missed the link or quoted content, the AP article (and quoted content from it) was about revealing that crash test dummies were indeed used and it was NOT a weather balloon 60 years later.
The exact example you use as "the truth" was an admitted lie, it was not a weather balloon, it was a spy balloon.
First of all, the quoted section you provided makes no mention of crash test dummies and says very little about Roswell, citing only the standard conspiracy theory of a recovered crashed saucer:
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The other school holds that the Government has come into possession of extraterrestrial craft and beings and is hiding them from the public, partly to avoid causing panic. That view was celebrated last month on the 50th anniversary of an incident in Roswell, N.M., in which conspiracy theorists say a saucer crashed to Earth and was seized by the Government.
How should Roswell have been treated differently back in 1947? Although one guy took it upon himself to use the word saucer, it was quickly corrected to a weather balloon, which is 1/2 right. The other 1/2 was classified. Should there be NO secrets at all in the military?
Should, at the beginning of the Cold War, the DoD come out and said: "What crashed at Roswell was a top-secret spy balloon form Project Mogal that is used to listen for Soviet nuclear testing. Here is how they are built and here is the new plastics and neoprene materials we use. NO flying saucer, just a top secret balloon". Would that have stopped Heven's Gate?
They seemed to have done what was logical at the time:
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Air Force declassification officer Lieutenant James McAndrew concluded:
When the civilians and personnel from Roswell AAF 'stumbled' upon the highly classified project and collected the debris, no one at Roswell had a 'need to know' about information concerning MOGUL. This fact, along with the initial mis-identification and subsequent rumors that the 'capture' of a 'flying disc' occurred, ultimately left many people with unanswered questions that have endured to this day.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
One could argue that Project Mogal should have been declassified earlier, but to what end. It was a long forgotten and short lived project that only ran from '47-'49 and Roswell was not a thing until the '80s. By the time it was a big deal in the late '80s early '90s, Mogal was declassified.
As for the bodies, I still don't see how the test dummies are part of a cover up. There were NO body stories associated with Roswell for nearly 30 years, so what's to cover up? The body stories were added much later, beginning in the late '70s early '80s.
There were high altitude dummy test conducted in the '50s near Roswell that were kept secret. Advertising that the US is trying to find out what happens to a person ejecting from a high-altitude jet sends the signal abroad that the US was trying to, or had created a very high-altitude jet, like the classified U2:
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As jet planes flew higher and faster in the 1950s, the Air Force became increasingly worried about the safety of flight crews who had to eject at high altitude. Tests in
Operation High Dive with dummies had shown that a body in
free-fall at high altitude would often go into a
flat spin at a rate of up to 200 revolutions per minute (about 3.3 revolutions per second). This would be potentially fatal.
Project Excelsior was initiated in 1958 to design a parachute system that would allow a safe, controlled descent after a high-altitude ejection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior
As I noted earlier, the government should have just ignored the body stories in there '90s report, but the UFOlogists were framing the debate. The test dummies were not offered as part of a coverup, but as a possible explanation for people claiming to have seen strange bodies near Roswell. Something they confabulated with growing mythos of Roswell that had grown by the '90s.
I suppose one could argue the government should never have any secrets. It'd be nice, but I don't think it's likely.
- The blue angles, so it may not have provided any help at all in that respect, haha).
OK ufo conspiracy time: Do we only see flares when they test the anti gravity spy planes, because it's painted vantablack and so we only see the lights coming from its power sources? 
