Unidentified Flying Object Mystery Cache
Unidentified Flying Object
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The cache is hidden 3 or 4 miles south of Gridley, but not at the above-listed coordinates. To determine the location of the hide, you must answer 15 questions about rockets. You will notice a large, rusty silver object standing in a field near the site. It reminded me of a spaceship, or possibly a missile silo. What do YOU think it is?
1. it was the launch vehicle for the Discoverer satellites (use second letter)
2. this air-to-air rocket was used in Operation Plumbbob on 19 July 1957 (omit "AIR-2")
3. this type of British rocket was fired on Fort McHenry in 1814 (use 4th letter)
4. this Iranian artillery rocket was developed in 2006, and is mounted on a Mercedes-Benz platform
5. small unguided suborbital sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the 1950s
6. the first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral (on July 24, 1950)
7. upper stage used to launch the two Mariner Mars probes
8. it propelled TIROS-2 into orbit in 1960
9. this Thiokol booster served as the second stage of the Scout rocket which put Explorer 9 into orbit
10. it propelled Telstar 1 into orbit in 1962
11. it was used to launch NASA's Cassini probe to Saturn in 1997 (use 2nd letter)
12. it launched NASA's Lunar Prospector on Jan 6, 1998
13. it was the world's first high energy upper stage rocket motor, burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen
14. as of 2007, it is the only land-based ICBM in service in the U.S. (omit "LGM-30; use 2nd letter)
15. it was used to launch the Mercury spaceship Friendship (with John Glenn aboard)
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