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People have talked about whether aliens are real or not for thousands of years.Some ancient drawings over 50,000 years ago are thought to be the first pictures of spacecrafts.Alien spacecrafts are often called flying saucers .The first person to use this name was an Amerlean,Kenneth Arnold.On 24th June,1947,he was flying a small plane in Washington State in the USA when he saw something strange."I was looking out of the window,"Arnold said,"when I saw nine saucer-like things in front of me." Two other Americans,Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker,said that aliens took them into a flying saucer! They were fishing on the Mississippi River in the USA on the night of 11th October,l973.It was a dark night.The two men were sitting in their fishing boat when they saw a bright light.It was hanging in the air over the water and it looked like a flying saucer and brought Hickson and Parker into their spacecraft.In the spacecraft the aliens looked at the two men very carefully and then took them back to their boat."The aliens were in a pale colour and had very small eyes." Hiekson said."But they didn't hurt us." In l983,Pioneer 10,an American spacecraft,went into space.On the outside of the spacecraft are 13 pictures of men and women,and a map of space.If aliens find Pioneer 10,they will know how to get to the Earth!

1. What is the story about?
2. What about them?
3. How long have people thought about that?
4. Has anyone seen an alien?
5. What do they look like?
6. Who saw them?
7. Did they hurt them?
8. When did people first talk about aliens?
9. What did they write about?
10. What of?
11. Has anyone more recently seen a spacecraft?
12. Who?
13. What did they see?
14. Where were they?
15. What happened next?
16. Has anyone else seen anything?
17. Who?
18. What did he see?
19. Have we ever tried communicating with aliens?
20. Where was Arnold when he saw the nice saucers?

Numbered answers:
1. aliens
2. whether they are real or not
3. thousands of years
4. yes
5. pale colour and  small eyes
6. Hickson and Parke
7. no us
8. over 50,000 years ago
9. .they made drawings
10. spacecrafts
11. yes
12. Hickson and Parker
13. a bright light
14. on the Mississippi River
15. took them  into their spacecraft.
16. yes
17. Kenneth Arnold.
18. nine saucer-like thing
19. no
20. flying a plane in Washington