Close encounter
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In ufology, a close encounter is an event where a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This system was developed by J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study.
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Types
Sightings more than 500 feet from the witness are classified as "Daylight Discs", "Nocturnal Lights" or "Radar/Visual Reports". Sightings within about 500 feet are subclassified as various "close encounters". This classification system supplied the title for the 1977 Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
First kind
A close encounter of the first kind is a sighting of an unidentified flying object or objects. Reports of "flying saucers", odd lights, or aerial objects unattributable to human technology, can all be considered close encounters of the first kind.
Second kind
A close encounter of the second kind is an observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. Footprints, heat or radiation damage to terrain, and crop circles found in the vicinity of a UFO sighting could be considered examples of close encounters of the second kind.
Third kind
A close encounter of the third kind is an observation of one or more occupants associated with one or more crafts.
Expansion Of Hynek's Scale
Some have added more types of encounters to Hynek's Scale
Fourth kind
A close encounter of the fourth kind is abduction by an extraterrestrial intelligence. There are two types of CE4 encounters, the first type involving forcible abduction by an extraterrestrial intelligence of an unwilling abductee. The second type of CE4 contact involves willful agreement to be taken.
- In a Class 1 CE4 encounter abductees may experience severe reality distortion, memory lapses, "post abduction trauma" symptoms such as fear and anxiety, physiological effects, paralysis, and time-space disorientation.
- Events classified as a Class 2 CE4 are events that are technically classified as an abduction, but occur when a witness voluntary assists or willfully follows an entity.
Fifth kind
A close encounter of the fifth kind involves direct communication between an extraterrestrial intelligence and a human being. This is the rarest and most controversial form of close encounter. Many people in the New Age movement have asserted fifth-kind encounters.
Persons who claim to be in regular contact with alien life forms are known as contactees.
Sixth kind
A close encounter of the sixth kind involves the death of a human being or other animal during a witnessed encounter. Witnesses reporting UFOs flying above fields where cattle had been mutilated (cattle mutilation) would be classified as a sixth-kind encounter (CE6).
Seventh kind
A close encounter of the seventh kind involves genetic interchange
between aliens and humans, and the fecundation of a human ovocyte with alien seed (maybe some type of blend of human sperm and alien
chromosomes, with or without further pregnancy of a human being until the development of a chimeric embryo that can develop and grow inside an alien's body or inside some type of nurturing machine.
Some abductees claim that they met a blended human-alien race in space.
See also
- Abduction Phenomenon
- Astrosociobiology
- Extraterrestrial life
- Roswell UFO incident
- Unidentified Flying Object
External links
- Fortean Times
- Jeff Rense's UFO Data Page
- Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
- A collection of possible extraterrestrial ships photographed by the SOHO sun-watching satellite
- UFO Casebook Homepage
- Malevolent Alien Abduction Research Homepage
- Mutual UFO Network Homepage
- Australian UFO Sightingses:Encuentros Cercanos