What is the Main Idea of "The Kecksburg Object"?
The Kecksburg Object

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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Nancy Becktel
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Although the military denies it, some eyewitnesses claim that the object that fell in Kecksburg was a UFO.
The controversy surrounding the Kecksburg object has never completely died down.
A large, acorn-shaped object was brought to an air force base shortly after the Kecksburg object fell to earth.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A flaming object crash-landed in....
Pennsylvania.
Virgina.
Canada.
United States.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Shortly after the object fell to Earth, the U.S. Government announced that it was a ...
UFO.
Soviet satellite.
meteor.
light.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Military personnel carried the object away on ..
a flat-bed truck.
an aiplane.
a helicopter.
a bus.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
One firefighter who arrived on the scene claimed that the object was ..
too small to carry people.
large enough for a grown man to stand up inside it.
an ordinary aircraft.
as big has a house.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
On December 9, 1965, a soviet Kosmos-96 satellite fell to Earth ..
at about four o'clock in the afternoon.
12 hours after the Kecksburg object crashed.
12 hours before the Kecksburg object crashed.
about 4 hours after the Kecksburg object crashed.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Is the following statement a Correct or Faulty inference:
The air force didn't want any nonmilitary personnel at the crash site.
Correct Inference
Faulty Inference
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