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[all-things-alien]

The Scale of Close Encounters:

J. Allen Hynek was an astronomer that later worked for the United States air force on Project Sign, Project Blue Book, and Project Grudge from the late 1940’s until the late 1960’s. He wrote several books about UFO’s, and the close encounter scale was first proposed in his book called The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry that was published in 1972. 

The Scale For UFO’s: 

Nocturnal Lights - light from a UFO is spotted in the night sky. 

Daylight Disks - A UFO is spotted during the day. Most of the objects focused on in his book were oval shaped. 

Radar-Visual UFO Reports - A sighting where the UFO is both seen in the sky, and on a radar. 

The Scale For Aliens: 

Close encounter of the first kind - Seeing UFO from a distance of less than 500 ft (or 152.4 meters) away, and being able to make out some detail. 

Close encounter of the second kind - The UFO has some sort of effect on its surroundings, or leaves a trace that it was there. It could be flying, suspended in the air, or on the ground. Some common examples of these effects are: animals start acting strangely, burn marks on the ground, and electronic interference. 

Close encounters of the third kind - A UFO encounter where an alien is also seen. 

Jacques Vallee’s Extension of the Scale: 

He is an astronomer, an engineer, and he has written several books about UFO’s. He wrote a couple of books with Allen Hynek. His expansion of the scale was introduced in a paper he wrote called Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects that was published in 1990. 

Close encounter of the fourth kind - A sighting where the person is either abducted by aliens, or experiences something that alters their sense of reality. 

Close encounters of the 5th kind -  A sighting where the aliens communicate with a person. 

Ted Bloecher's Subtypes of the Scale: 

He was an actor, a writer, and the co-founder of The Civilian Saucer Intelligence organization that was active from 1954 to 1959. The group was an independent research facility based in New York that looked into UFO reports. He came up with 7 subtypes for close encounters of the third kind. 

A (Abroad) - An entity is seen inside of a UFO 

B (Both) - An entity is seen both inside and outside of the UFO. 

C (Close) - An entity is seen near a UFO, but doesn’t enter it or exit it. 

D (Direct) - An entity is seen, but no UFO’s are. However, UFO sightings have been reported in the area at around the same time the entity is seen. 

E (Excluded) - An entity is seen, but no UFO’s are. There are also no UFO sightings in the area. 

F (Frequence) - The person does not see an entity or a UFO, but they experience a sort of communication. 

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