Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Read the text again and decide if the following information is true, false or not given. 9 craft (pl.) : Flugobjekte/-geräte nicknamed: mit dem Spitznamen RAF (Royal Airforce): königliche Luftwaffe base: Stützpunkt true false not given 1 Pope could provide “normal” explanations for 10% of the 300 cases which he received each year. 2 Many people who reported UFO sightings were confused by unusual natural phenomena. 3 A lot of these phenomena could be traced back to Northern Lights. 4 Pope believed that RAF officers were likely to invent UFO sightings. 5 The police constable told Pope that he had seen three UFOs. 6 More than one person said the craft made a humming noise. 7 The meteorological officer thought the craft was a jumbo jet. 8 The reports all agreed that the craft could travel very fast. 9 One craft was described as circular. 10 The craft were detected by the radar systems. 11 The Government’s greatest fear is that there will be an alien invasion. 12 Pope began to believe in extra-terrestrial visitors when he saw the craft. 5 They gave a description of a diamond-shaped object of about two hundred metres in diameter, making a very low humming noise, which then flew away from them at top speed. Then Pope was contacted by a meteorological officer working at an RAF base. He reported seeing an object in the sky which was at first stationary, and which then zig-zagged towards him at a speed of several hundred miles per hour. The craft slowed down and the officer was able to see it for a full five minutes. He said it was larger than a jumbo jet, and, like the earlier witnesses, he also described a low humming sound. 6 He was finally convinced by the number of similar reports that some “UFO” sightings are in fact extra-terrestrial. Pope says that the most serious worry is national security because on March 31, 1993, British radar sys- tems did not detect the craft, while hundreds of people saw them. How this is possible remains a mystery. H 51 3 Extensive unit 3: Unsolved mysteries Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv