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More from Prestwick House Literature Grammar and Writing Vocabulary Reading Literary Touchstone Classics College and Career Readiness: Writing Vocabulary Power Plus Reading Informational Texts Literature Teaching Units Grammar for Writing Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Reading Literature TABLE OF CONTENTS Three Sides of the Bermuda Triangle .................................................................................................1 The Marvel of Monarchs ....................................................................................................................9 Aliens at Roswell? ............................................................................................................................17 The Year without a Summer .............................................................................................................25 Who Was King Arthur? ....................................................................................................................33 Stonehenge .......................................................................................................................................41 The Great Pyramids of Giza .............................................................................................................49 Who Wrote “Shakespeare”? .............................................................................................................57 “Nessie” ............................................................................................................................................65 Japan’s Atlantis .................................................................................................................................73 Where is Amelia Earhart? .................................................................................................................81 The Amazing Neutrino .....................................................................................................................89 Roanoke, The Lost Colony ...............................................................................................................97 Creatures from the Abyss ...............................................................................................................105 The Speed of Light .........................................................................................................................113 Stone Age Surgery ..........................................................................................................................121 Bigfoot ............................................................................................................................................129 Vocabulary ......................................................................................................................................137 Aliens at roswell? The Marvel of the Monarch Butterfly GPS Here Comes the Sun Compass “RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER on Ranch Brazel could have been right. What he saw If you wanted to travel to a precise location some- For centuries, humans have used compasses to in Roswell Region” ran the headline in the Roswell may not have been a typical weather balloon. whereDaily far Recordaway—a on smallJuly 8, forest 1947. Thisin Mexico, story initiated for guideDeclassified them to theirmilitary destinations. reports describe Similarly, a top-secret mon- example—howthe Roswell would legend you that get still there? circulates You mighttoday: A archprogram butterflies called Project use an MOGUL. innate sense—whatThe items Brazel sci- start flyingwith some saucer seriously crashed savvy on a ranchtech tools. outside Even of town,a entistsfound callmay a “sunhave compass”—tobeen created findby thetheir United way to state-of-the-artand the US GPS military won’t helpsurreptitiously you navigate brought the oneStates specific for reconnaissance forest in Michoacán. purposes. 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Unlike us, however, ingto monarchsomeone butterfly. who had It’sseen morning. ordinary It’s weather time to On June 14th, a cattle rancher, Mac Brazel, was balloons before. monarchs won’t get lost twenty minutes after take to the skies and continue the long, difficult walking with his eight-year-old son and saw that Even if the mysterious debris could be ex- leaving home. journey to Mexico. The sun appears in the east, something had fallen on his property. When he plained by Project MOGUL, what could account Everyinvestigated autumn, the millions wreckage of onmonarch July 4th ,butter he found- offor course, the alien so in bodies order peopleto head believe south, wereyou need found to flies whatmigrate he acrossdescribed North as “rubberAmerica strips,in what tinfoil, Lin- a flywith to the the wreckage? right of it. 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Witnesses may have seen army travel from the northeastern US to a forest in the wake cycles and other physiological process- of the accident, the Roswell Army Air Force vehicles driving to the site to recover them and, Mexican state of Michoacán, on the country’s es—to tell you how to correctly orient yourself hurriedly retrieved the debris and brought it back incredulously, believed the government was tak- southwesternto their base. coast, The up followingto 3,000 milesday, they away.) gave To their ining relation away aliento the corpses. sun’s positionIn fact, the throughout mannequins the achieveofficial this astonishingreport: It was feat, just the a weatherbutterflies balloon. use a day.likely Between inspired your the “sunimage compass” of aliens and(called circadian “Grey geneticallySpeculation encoded began ability almost to rely immediately: on two natural What rhythm,Aliens” youor “Greys”) might think, that is this prevalent getting-to-Micho in the mod-- guides:really the happened?position of What, the sun exactly, in the did sky Brazel and the find? acánern media.thing might not be so tough after all. Then, earth’sWas magnetic the gullible field. public easily misled by a lying it hitsThen, you: in What 1956, if the a KC-97Gsun isn’t visible?airplane Howcrashed will government? Recently acquired information may I nearmake Roswell. it to Michoacán? A fire in the cabin had killed the hold the answers. crew, and the bodies that were removed from the It’s a good thing you have a backup plan. 1717 Vocabulary in Context: Mysteries, Curiosities & Wonders wreckage were barely recognizable as humans. Another event that often goes unreported and When they were taken to be autopsied, even the corroborates Brazel’s story is the testimony of nurses in the hospital thought the dead men were Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot, Roswell residents who The Marvel of the Monarch extraterrestrials. If a nurse could make such a saw a UFO in the sky around the
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