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Close Encounters of Every Kind Explained

A light in the sky isn’t the same as a missing hour of your life—and lumping them together is why the UFO conversation keeps spinning its wheels. We take a clear, grounded walk through the close encounter scale, from Hynek’s original CE1–CE3 to abductions (CE4) and human‑initiated contact (CE5), and show how a shared vocabulary can turn wild stories into workable data. No hype, no hand‑waving—just definitions, cases, and why structure matters.

We start with the roots: Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who tried to bring scientific rigor to UFO reports and unexpectedly gave Hollywood its most…

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