UFOs
 
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LISTENING EXERCISE
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS :

1. When and Where did the general public start to mistrust government’s information about unidentified flying objects? (- In a bizarre incident in World War II in Los Angeles)

2. What was so special about that air alarm? (- Radars could pick up flying crafts but one of them was specially large)

3. What was done to face the attack? (- The city was blacked out. - Search lights scanned the sky. - Aircraft batteries were manned for action. )

4. Although there was not an actual fight, what accidents did it cause? ( - 3 death of heart-attacks . - Damage to private property from friendly fire)

5. What was the final report from the military authorities? (- Something extraordinary had happened that may never be explained.)

6. What’s a key element to understand the UFO phenomena? (- The feeling of threat of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.)

7. What could be seen on that routine film of the launching of a missile? ( - A disk-shaped craft which flew around the missile.)

8. What was the consequence of that encounter? ( - The missile malfunctioned and tumbled out of control, falling into the ocean.)

9. How was the witness discredited? ( - He was said never to have worked for the army.)

10. What are the actual effects of the CIA’s secrecy regarding UFOs? (- Undermined his credibility with UFO researchers and people questioned the necessity of national security secrecy. .)

 

 

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