_____ 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.