Close Encounters

A close encounter in ufology is an event where a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.

There are different levels of close encounters.

Close Encounters of the First Kind -
- A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects

Close Encounters of the Second Kind
- An observation of a UFO, and associated physical effects from the UFO, including Heat or radiation, Damage to terrain
Human paralysis, Frightened animals

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-The UFO researcher Ted Bloecher subtypes for the close encounters of the third kind in the Hynek's scale.
A: An entity is observed only inside the UFO
B: An entity is observed inside and outside the UFO
C: An entity is observed near to a UFO, but not going in or out.
D: An entity is observed. No UFOs are seen by the observer, but UFO activity has been reported in the area at about the same time
E: An entity is observed. But no UFOs are seen and no UFO activity has been reported in the area at that time
F: No entity or UFOs are observed, but the subject experiences some kind of "intelligent communication"

close encounter of Fourth kind
-A human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.

close encounter of Fifth kind
-Named by Steven M. Greer's CSETI group, these purported encounters are joint, bilateral contact events produced through the conscious, voluntary and proactive human-initiated or cooperative communication with Extraterrestrial intelligence.

hmmmm...So next time you have a close encounter next time, you can identify it for yourself.

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water - Zen proverb