Q 01/05

In which US state is Roswell?

A) Texas

B) New Mexico

C) Arizona

D) Nevada

Answer · why

B) New Mexico

The debris was actually found near Corona, about 75 miles away, but the air base that handled it was in Roswell.

Q 02/05

In which year did the Roswell incident take place?

A) 1938

B) 1952

C) 1961

D) 1947

Answer · why

D) 1947

It came in the first summer of the Cold War, weeks after Kenneth Arnold's sighting launched the flying-saucer craze.

Q 03/05

What did the Roswell debris actually come from?

A) An experimental jet

B) A weather balloon

C) A crashed V-2 rocket

D) A Project Mogul balloon train

Answer · why

D) A Project Mogul balloon train

The linked balloons and equipment were designed to listen for Soviet nuclear tests; the weather-balloon story was the cover.

Q 04/05

What was Project Mogul intended to detect?

A) Radio signals from space

B) Incoming missiles

C) Soviet nuclear tests

D) Submarines

Answer · why

C) Soviet nuclear tests

It flew from 1947 to early 1949 and was superseded by cheaper seismic detectors and air sampling.

Q 05/05

Which rancher found the debris on the land he managed near Corona?

A) W. W. 'Mac' Brazel

B) Sheridan Cavitt

C) George Wilcox

D) Grady Barnett

Answer · why

A) W. W. 'Mac' Brazel

He had no phone or radio and only heard about 'flying disks' from his uncle on 5 July.