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Student A
UFOS: IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE?
An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is ………………………………………………….which
cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. The
term flying saucer is also sometimes used.

Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of ………….
started becoming more common after the first widely publicized United States sighting in 1947.
Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide.

Kenneth Arnold's Sighting 1947

The post World War II UFO phase in the United States began with a reported sighting by
American businessman Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947 while flying his private plane near
Mount Rainier, Washington. He reported seeing nine ……………………………… flying across
the face of Rainier towards nearby Mount Adams at “an incredible speed”, which he calculated
as at least 1200 miles per hour.

His sighting subsequently received significant …………………………. Arnold would later say
they “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water” and also said they were “flat
like a pie pan”, “shaped like saucers,” and “half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the
rear. ...they looked like a big flat disk.” Arnold’s reported descriptions caught the media’s and
the public’s fancy and gave rise to the terms flying saucer and flying disk. Arnold’s sighting was
followed in the next few weeks by hundreds of other reported sightings, mostly in the U.S., but
in other countries as well.

The Roswell incident

The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA,
in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor and
questioning. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate
debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what
was recovered was a top-secret …………………………that had crashed. However, many UFO
proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up
the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop
culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the
most famous alleged UFO incident.

1947 military experiments source for "flying saucer" reports

In 1947, the United States was in the opening stages of a Cold War with the ………………..,
and as a result, put in place numerous secret military programs to gain intelligence on the
Soviets, particularly on their nuclear programs. One of the military experiments being conducted
at the time in New Mexico was Project Mogul, designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests via high-
altitude balloon launches. These balloon experiments were sent from ……………. In June and
July 1947, several of the balloon trains got lost. At the same time, reports of UFOs spiked
significantly, as did press coverage of them. One tally of reports counted 853 during June and
July. Some, such as the Air Force, have speculated that many of these "flying saucer" sightings
were in fact misidentified …………………...

Source: Wikipedia

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Student B
UFOS: IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE?
An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be
identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. The term
……………… is also sometimes used.

Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings
started becoming more common after the first widely publicized United States sighting in the
year …….. . Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide.

Kenneth Arnold's Sighting 1947

The post World War II UFO phase in the United States began with a reported sighting by
American businessman Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947 while flying his private plane near
Mount Rainier, Washington. He reported seeing nine brilliantly bright objects flying across the
face of Rainier towards nearby Mount Adams at “an incredible speed”, which he calculated as at
least ………. per hour.

His sighting subsequently received significant media and public attention. Arnold would later say
they “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water” and also said they were “flat
like a pie pan”, “shaped like saucers,” and “half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the
rear. ...they looked like a big flat disk.” Arnold’s reported descriptions caught the media’s and
the public’s fancy and gave rise to the terms flying saucer and flying disk. Arnold’s sighting was
followed in the next few weeks by …………………………………………, mostly in the U.S., but in
other countries as well.

The Roswell incident

The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA,
in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor and
questioning. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate
debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what
was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO
proponents believe the wreckage was of a …………………………. and that the military covered
up the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop
culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the
most famous alleged UFO incident.

1947 military experiments source for "flying saucer" reports

In 1947, the United States was in the opening stages of a Cold War with the Soviet Union, and
as a result, put in place numerous ………………………… to gain intelligence on the Soviets,
particularly on their nuclear programs. One of the military experiments being conducted at the
time in New Mexico was Project Mogul, designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests via high-altitude
balloon launches. These balloon experiments were sent from Alamogordo. In June and July
1947, several of the balloon trains got lost. At the same time, reports of UFOs spiked
significantly, as did press coverage of them. One tally of reports counted ……… during June
and July. Some, such as the Air Force, have speculated that many of these "flying saucer"
sightings were in fact misidentified weather balloons.

Source: Wikipedia

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UFOS: IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE?

An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be
identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. The term flying
saucer is also sometimes used.

Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings
started becoming more common after the first widely publicized United States sighting in 1947.
Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide.

Kenneth Arnold's Sighting 1947

The post World War II UFO phase in the United States began with a reported sighting by
American businessman Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947 while flying his private plane near
Mount Rainier, Washington. He reported seeing nine brilliantly bright objects flying across the
face of Rainier towards nearby Mount Adams at “an incredible speed”, which he calculated as at
least 1200 miles per hour.

His sighting subsequently received significant media and public attention. Arnold would later say
they “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water” and also said they were “flat
like a pie pan”, “shaped like saucers,” and “half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the
rear. ...they looked like a big flat disk.” Arnold’s reported descriptions caught the media’s and
the public’s fancy and gave rise to the terms flying saucer and flying disk. Arnold’s sighting was
followed in the next few weeks by hundreds of other reported sightings, mostly in the U.S., but
in other countries as well.

The Roswell incident

The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA,
in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor and
questioning. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate
debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what
was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO
proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up
the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop
culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the
most famous alleged UFO incident.

1947 military experiments source for "flying saucer" reports

In 1947, the United States was in the opening stages of a Cold War with the Soviet Union, and
as a result, put in place numerous secret military programs to gain intelligence on the Soviets,
particularly on their nuclear programs. One of the military experiments being conducted at the
time in New Mexico was Project Mogul, designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests via high-altitude
balloon launches. These balloon experiments were sent from Alamogordo. In June and July
1947, several of the balloon trains got lost. At the same time, reports of UFOs spiked
significantly, as did press coverage of them. One tally of reports counted 853 during June and
July. Some, such as the Air Force, have speculated that many of these "flying saucer" sightings
were in fact misidentified weather balloons.

Source: Wikipedia

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