_____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____ (23-28) CHOOSE THE WORD OR PHRASE THAT BEST FITS THE BLANK SPACE IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

1/ _____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____

(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

On October 21, 1978, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich, age 20, took off from Melbourne

and (23)__________ towards a small island. It was the young men’s first solo night over water. It

was a still, clear evening, and from his Cessna aircraft Valentich had a perfect (24) _________ of

the sky above and the sea below. Shortly after taking off, Valentich reported to flight controllers in

Melbourne that he was being followed by a UFO. “ It’s a long shape,” he reported, “ with a green

light, sort of metallic like, all shiny on the outside”. A few minutes later, he told the controllers, “

That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again.” After that Valentich stopped talking. For the

next fourteen seconds the traffic controllers heard a strange ringing sound. Then silence. Valentich

and his plane never reached the island, and no (25) __________ of him or his aircraft was ever

found. Several (26) __________ of the public report seeing strange phenomena in the sky over

Melbourne that night. An amateur photographer produced a photo of (27) __________ looked like a

large object surrounded by vapor. A NASA scientist, Richard Haines, heard about the story and

began an (28) __________. He analyzed Valentich’s voice on tape and the strange sound heard at

the end of the tape. But he concluded that it was “ unidentifiable.” He decided that there were four

possible explanations for the mystery surroundings Valentich disappearance: (1) Valentich might

have become confused and disoriented while flying his plane and finally crashed; (2) He could

have staged a deliberate hoax;(3) he could have been the victim of a top secret advanced weapons

test; or he may have benn captured by the occupants of a OFO.