June 24, 2011June 24, 1997 | The ‘Roswell Incident’ On June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a 231-page report titled “Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash.” It suggested that
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June 24, 1997 | The ‘Roswell Incident’
On June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a 231-page report titled “Case Closed: Final Report
on the Roswell Crash.” It suggested that the alien bodies people reported seeing in Roswell, N.M., in July 1947, were actually life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies
The Times article from the next day summarised the main theme of the report: “No bodies
No bulbous heads No secret autopsies No spaceship No crash No extra-terrestrials or alien artefacts No government cover-up.”
The UFO phenomenon, which had originated in mid-June 1947 when a recreational pilot reported seeing an object “flying like a saucer would” in Washington State In early July, several witnesses reported seeing flying discs and strange debris on the ground in Roswell, N.M
Public interest in the reports increased on July 8, 1947, when The Roswell Daily Record reported “the intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer.”
Then the United States government began an effort, which lasted decades, to investigate and debunk the reports and thousands of similar reports from around the country Public concern about UFOs waxed and waned over the next several decades, but never
disappeared, partly due to popular culture
In 1994, the Air Force issued a report titled “Roswell Report: Fact and Fiction,” which said the debris was from top-secret, high-altitude weather balloons But then in 1995, Ray Santilli, a London-based entrepreneur, caught the public’s interest when he released what he claimed to be footage of an autopsy of an alien, allegedly performed in Roswell in 1947 Before large “celebrations” planned for the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Reports took place, the Air Force issued its final report on the matter, hoping to close the case once and for all
Source: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/june-24-1997-the-roswell-incident/ Edited by Emma Clayton.
Trang 2Anthropomorphic dummies used for scientific research, which the Air Force’s 1997 report suggests accounts for the sightings of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
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Match the words on the left from the article with their definitions on the right
anthropomorphic the cutting open and examination of a dead
body to find out why the person died test dummies when you try to prevent others discovering
information about a mistake or a crime bulbous broken pieces from something bigger
autopsy life-size models of humans, used to test what
happens to people in car crashes artefacts a piece of film, usually showing an event
cover-up making animals, Gods or objects seem like
they are human witness to show something is not true when people
think it is
debunk objects made by people, of historical
significance footage a person who sees an event happen,
especially a crime or an accident
Worksheet created by Emma Clayton Definitions from Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
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Match the words on the left from the article with their definitions on the right
anthropomorphic the cutting open and examination of a dead
body to find out why the person died test dummies when you try to prevent others discovering
information about a mistake or a crime bulbous broken pieces from something bigger
autopsy life-size models of humans, used to test what
happens to people in car crashes artefacts a piece of film, usually showing an event
cover-up making animals, Gods or objects seem like
they are human witness to show something is not true when people
think it is
debunk objects made by people, of historical
significance footage a person who sees an event happen,
especially a crime or an accident
Worksheet created by Emma Clayton Definitions from Cambridge Dictionaries Online.