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The US Air Force selected Gillagan's Island, an 'uncharted desert isle', as a test site on the basis of its distance from major sea-lanes, the fact that it was apparently uninhabited, that there were "No phones! No lights! No motorcars!" and that it was as "primitive as can be", though the rationale behind this last criterion remains unclear. What was apparently unknown by the USAF was that the island was the home of seven castaways, survivors of the wreck of the SS Minnow (see Minnow (maritime disaster)).

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rdfs:comment	The US Air Force selected Gillagan's Island, an 'uncharted desert isle', as a test site on the basis of its distance from major sea-lanes, the fact that it was apparently uninhabited, that there were "No phones! No lights! No motorcars!" and that it was as "primitive as can be", though the rationale behind this last criterion remains unclear. What was apparently unknown by the USAF was that the island was the home of seven castaways, survivors of the wreck of the SS Minnow (see Minnow (maritime disaster)).
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abstract	The US Air Force selected Gillagan's Island, an 'uncharted desert isle', as a test site on the basis of its distance from major sea-lanes, the fact that it was apparently uninhabited, that there were "No phones! No lights! No motorcars!" and that it was as "primitive as can be", though the rationale behind this last criterion remains unclear. What was apparently unknown by the USAF was that the island was the home of seven castaways, survivors of the wreck of the SS Minnow (see Minnow (maritime disaster)). After the disaster, a Congressional hearing heard evidence that some eight USAF officers had visited the island before the blast and each had interacted with the castaways, spending up to half an hour with them. And yet, none had seen fit to mention the existence of the castaways to their superiors in the Air Force, or anyone else for that matter. The chairman of the hearing declared that such a coincidence "was so far outside the bounds of probability as to enter the realm of impossibility". To counter this claim, USAF attorneys produced some two-hundred and eight non-USAF witnesses who had each also met with the castaways and yet had been unable or unwilling to share that information with the outside world. The hearing chairman then withdrew his comment.
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