Close
Encounters, by the Numbers
Close Encounters of the First Kind are events in which a person
or persons witness one or more Unidentified Flying Object's (UFO’s).
Specifically, if seen within 150 meters (492 feet); it’s an encounter of
the first kind. There have been millions
of such encounters through recorded history. The first recorded sighting in
America was documented back in March of 1639, within the diary of John
Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony founder and governor. Therein (his diary) he
recorded the trials and triumphs of his fellow Puritans. A more recent example of Close Encounters of
the First Kind occurred in Huston, Texas in August of 2014, when, a multitude
of UFO sightings were reported by a broad spectrum of citizens.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind
are when the events result in physical effects. This can include a wide range of
contact events such as interference in the functioning of a vehicle or an
electronic device; unusual animal behaviors; physiological effects such as
paralysis or heat and discomfort experienced by the witness; or physical trace
evidence such as crop circles, imprints in the ground, scorched or otherwise
unnatural vegetation, and or trace evidence of one or more chemicals left
behind.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind are UFO encounters in which
an alien creature is a part of the event.
Such creatures include humanoids, robots, or humans who often seem to be
occupants of or pilots of a UFO.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind describes a UFO event in which an individual is abducted by the UFO’s occupants. Such encounters with “other-world” beings are
not related to the supernatural or with divine beings; instead, such contact
entails a real-life experience by an unwilling or reluctant human that’s native
to Earth and is often complicated further because the event may seem
hallucinatory or dreamlike to the participant.
Close Encounters of the 4th Kind are rarest of all UFO
encounters and hardest for the public to accept as factual experiences.
Although alien abductions have
become commonplace events, most are “explained away” by naive disbelievers of
the existence of intelligent life beyond earth or are simply debunked by government
cover-ups.
However, as with most things of
significance, there are a few flagship cases that simply have not been
explained away:
The first alien abduction of the 4th kind to be widely publicized was
the Betty and Barney Hill abduction of 1961 . . . It remains the alien
abduction case to which all others are compared to and judged.
The Hills, Barney, a 39-year-old
black man, worked for the U S postal service, and Betty, a 41-year-old
white woman, a supervisor for the child welfare department, began their journey
back home to Portsmouth, NH after vacationing in Montreal, Canada on the
evening of September 19th, 1961.
At several minutes before 10:00 PM,
Barney, who was driving south on New Hampshire’s Daniel Webster Highway, noticed a “star” in the distance ahead
which appeared to be moving about irregularly. As they neared North Woodstock,
NH he alerted Betty, and they both kept close watch on it as they forged south
along their scheduled route home.
A few miles south of North
Woodstock near the Indian Head Resort, Barney noticed that the star’s erratic
behavior had intensified dramatically.
When they arrived at the Indian Head Resort, he stopped the car
alongside the road and they both exited the car to have a better view. Using
binoculars, Barney zoomed in on the “star” for a better look-see.
With his visual aide (binoculars) he was able to see multiple colors of
lights coming from a large oval shaped craft which had several rows of
windows. As the object moved closer
Barney could actually see “people” inside; the craft proceeded toward a nearby
field.
Within a few seconds, the Hills,
quite frightened, swiftly got back into the car and proceeded down the highway
toward home, all the while peering into the night sky ahead in search of the object as they trooped
south. As they drove on, they began to hear a beeping sound . . . once . . .
then again.
The very next thing the Hills recalled
was being terrified by the unusual flying craft, and the occupants they had
seen inside it. The craft was nowhere
in sight and they wasted no time speeding ahead. Suddenly they realized, although they had
been driving only a couple of minutes, they estimated they were 35 miles or so
further down the road past where they had stopped near the Indian Head Resort’s
parking lot. It was then too, they were shocked to see it was a few minutes
past 12:00 AM—indicating a lapse / loss of at least two hours for which neither
of the two had a recollection of.
Upon returning home to
Portsmouth, still unable to explain the two missing hours, being totally
exhausted and still plenty scared from their frightening experience, they both
immediately went to bed. Come morning, both
Betty and Barney upon further examination, noted physical changes to their
belongs from the previous night’s events; Betty’s torn and stained dress,
Barney’s severely scraped shoe, and broken binocular strap — neither could
recall these things having happened.
By mid-morning Betty had relayed
their distressing experience to her sister, Janet. Following Janet’s urging, she called the
Pease Air Force Base (a U S Strategic Air Command
facility at the time), and reported their experience of the previous
night. Following Betty’s report, Major Paul W. Henderson’s reply was short but
firm: “The UFO was also confirmed by our radar.”
Being somewhat satisfied with
learning, at least, they were not seeing things; the Hills proceeded with
trying to put the incident behind them. But within a short while Betty began to
have freighting nightmares. In her dreams, she saw her and Barney being forced
into some sort of craft, amid several other terrifying events.
Because of her dreams and the
missing time element, the desire to know what, if anything had happened during
the “missing” time, Betty, and a reluctant Barney, decided to contact a
psychiatrist. They soon selected Boston psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr.
Benjamin Simon, who was well-known in the field.
After nearly six months of
treatment, a long list of hidden memories were gathered by way of regressive
hypnosis from the Hills; regressive hypnosis, you may recall is a treatment
often successful in unlocking psychologically blocked memories. In any event it was Dr. Simon’s concluding
opinion that the two had been abducted and taken aboard an unknown craft.
Several of the Facts that were Recovered:
Their automobile had stalled on the road shortly after the Hill's stop near the resort
The UFO had landed in front of their car in the middle of the road, blocking passage
The alien beings departed the craft and approached their car, carrying both Betty and Barney inside the UFO
They were subjected to several medical tests
Their captors were described as “. . . bald-headed alien beings, about five foot tall, with grayish skin, pear shaped heads and slanting cat-like eyes”
Both physical and mental experiments were conducted
Samples taken; included skin, hair, and nails
Betty received gynecological testing
Barney revealed that sperm samples were taken from him
Before being released, they both were hypnotized and ordered by the aliens to keep their capture undisclosed
Travis Walton’s abduction began on November 5, 1975, in the
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. Walton was one of
seven men contracted by the government to clear-cut trees within the National
Forest. At the work day’s end, the crew jumped into foreman Mike Roger’s
pick-up truck and headed home.
As they slowly trudged along,
they were taken aback to see near the side of the rugged road, a “luminous
object, shaped like a flattened disc” within the confines of a clearing near
the edge of the rugged roadway.
Travis, a bit young, unafraid,
and often too curious for his own good, was immediately fascinated by the presence
of the object and swiftly abandoned the
truck to get a closer look, against the vocal protests of his co-workers. As he
looked up at the wonder of the unusual object or craft, a blue beam was emitted
from the craft striking him to the earth. Panic and terror immediately engulfed
the six other men; likely by pure reflex they roared away in the truck for a
distance before realizing they had left Travis behind; at which point they all
agreed he most likely needed help. They hurriedly
turned the truck and headed back to find to their dismay that he had seemingly
vanished.
Following a lengthy search the
men departed the scene and returned to the small town of Snowflake; where they
filed a report with the local police department. They relayed their story first,
to Deputy Ellison, and then, to Sheriff Marlin Gillespie, who later reported
that the men seemed genuinely troubled and sincere. The police officers and the
crew members returned to the scene that evening with flashlights and searched
again for Travis; for a second time without favorable results.
They returned the next morning
and searched for a third time with the aid of daylight. Still, no trace of
Travis Walton could be found.
Quickly, the story broke into the
national media. The small Arizona town was literally overrun by newspaper
writers, researchers, UFO buffs, and many members of the general population.
Several days of fruitless
searching by men on foot, men in four-wheel drive vehicles, scent dogs, and
even helicopters followed but no sign of Walton was found. Temperatures plunged
at night in November, even in north central Arizona, prompting fear that
Walton, injured by the beam and lying somewhere unattended and disoriented,
could not survive.
Absent success, Law enforcement
began to develop another line of investigation . . . a possible motive for murder. Speculating that there could be bad blood
between Travis and one or more of the remaining crew members, they began to
weigh the credibility of the six men involved in the clear cutting contract.
Yielding to demands to take polygraph tests, all of the men passed, save one,
which was inconclusive. Following background checks and intense interviews with the six
men, Police personnel, concluded that there was no reason to believe that they
were covering up a fight or murder. By ruling out foul-play that left one
possibility; the crazy story the men were telling was true!
Rumors flourished and wild
theories prevailed, until five days after his disappearance, Travis Walton
returned. He stumbled into a small
filling station; dirty, hungry, thirsty, and very weak.
Travis later told investigators
that the very last thing he could recall, just prior to his misadventure, was
the feeling of being flung backward in the woods. After that, nothing . . . until
he awoke freezing, in serious pain, and very thirsty. That’s when he realized
he was being “showered” by some sort of light, as he was lying on a table,
somewhat like an examining table in a hospital. Walton, still somewhat dazed,
said he first thought he had been found by the crew and had then been taken to
the hospital.
This supposition was far from
true.
Conscious of the fact that he was
lying on a table, at first was a bit comforting, but realizing it was a table
in a strange room or chamber and certainly not in a hospital—not so reassuring.
Finally when his vision cleared, he was utterly shocked to see three short,
bald creatures in the room that were obviously in the middle of performing
various medical procedures / tests on his outstretched body. When they left, someone entered the chamber
wearing some sort of helmet and led Walton to another room, where one of three additional
individuals put a clear plastic mask over his face just before he blacked out.
Walton remembers nothing else
until he found himself lying along the side of a highway, with the UFO
departing above him.
The Travis Walton case was the
first to be given serious attention by mainstream science and caused many
non-believers to reconsider their position on the notion of alien
abductions. Many theories have been
placed forward to explain the Walton abduction as something other than what it
was; however, none of the alleged scenarios are consistent with the facts of
the case.
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
involves direct communication between aliens and humans. As Earth’s scientists
edge closer to discovering life elsewhere in the cosmos, language specialists
are trying to determine the best way to communicate with them. For obvious reasons, this is un-charted
territory. After all, a dialectal that
originates from another planet will likely be unfathomable to humans, so
experts have turned to what could be a universal language: Math.
Close
Encounters of the Sixth kind involves the death of an animal or a human
associated with a UFO encounter. The 1st
documented Animal Mutilation occurred September 7, 1967 when Lady, a
three-year-old Appaloosa mare, failed to return to her pasture for her morning
drink on the Harry King ranch near Alamosa, Colorado.
Her carcass was found in a far
pasture, two days later. Parts of the animal had been neatly cut with surgical expertise:
her heart and brain were missing, and a strange, formaldehyde-like odor drifted
from the carcass, yet no incriminating tracks were found near the body that
might help explain how Lady met her unfortunate end.
Yet, there were several other peculiar
discoveries:
Six indentations formed a circle about 3 feet in diameter (which investigators felt were the marks of a landing gear of some kind airborne craft) alongside the horse’s body.
The horse’s owner, Miss Nellie Lewis, and the ranch owner, Mr. Harry King, both noted a peculiar odor similar to incense and a shrub bush that looked as though an intense heat source had bent it down from above was still standing in close proximity to the scene.
A piece of the horse’s mane, Nellie picked up at the site, burned her hand; she later discovered that the boots she wore to the site tested as being radioactive.
Six indentations formed a circle about 3 feet in diameter (which investigators felt were the marks of a landing gear of some kind airborne craft) alongside the horse’s body.
The horse’s owner, Miss Nellie Lewis, and the ranch owner, Mr. Harry King, both noted a peculiar odor similar to incense and a shrub bush that looked as though an intense heat source had bent it down from above was still standing in close proximity to the scene.
A piece of the horse’s mane, Nellie picked up at the site, burned her hand; she later discovered that the boots she wore to the site tested as being radioactive.
This mysterious event is still
unsolved and started the animal mutilation sensation that has occurred repeatedly
throughout the United States.
Finally there are Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind;
such interaction involves contact with a human-alien hybrid or off-spring.
The most frequently
encountered beings of the “7th Kind” are the mysterious “Men in Black”
(MIB); the oddly behaved individuals often
show up on the scene shortly after a UFO sighting. Men in Black are not believed to be
quite human, but witnesses may not recognize this fact until midway through an
encounter. They may be wearing black
suits complimented with dark sunglasses and arrive in shiny new black cars. These guys often claim to be government
agents who harass or threaten those who have recently seen a UFO and in no
uncertain terms, direct the UFO witness (or
witnesses) to keep their mouth shut in regard to their unusual encounter!
From
time to time, encounters of the 7th Kind are attributed to athletes
who enjoy superior physical abilities in their chosen field of spectator sports
coupled with what is perceived to be unusual and or bizarre day to day behavior
above and beyond their professional skills.
Examples include Dennis Rodman,
whose many body piercings, tattoos, and baffling behavior throughout and after
his professional basketball career are considered, well, outside the realm of
normalcy. Rodman’s assertion that he is
the oldest of a total of 47 children only reinforces the contention (even
though he was born in Trenton, New Jersey), that his biological father is really an alien.
A
second example is former Major League Baseball (MLB)
pitcher Nolan Ryan (aka The Ryan Express).
During his record 27-year baseball career, he was nothing short
of a pitching machine! Ryan’s
robotic-like accuracy and power were beyond this world, as he regularly threw
strikes exceeding 100 miles per hour. His career strikeouts of 5,714 remain a
record no “full-stock” human may ever contest as is indicated by runner-up,
Randy Johnson, who trails by 839 strikeouts. During his “sunset” years, Ryan
continues proving he is more than a mere earthling—he is currently an executive
adviser to the owner of the Houston Astros.
Then,
there’s Bill Lee, Lee is a former Montreal
Expo and Boston Red Sox pitcher, he too is among the list of those of likely
alien descent that has lived large in the midst of the sporting community. Yea, it’s true that left-handed pitchers have
a tendency to walk on the weird side of life, but Lee’s outspoken manner and constant
quest to redefine logic coupled with his unparalleled tomfoolery throughout his
career and beyond are more easily explained as being other-worldly. Even his nickname, “Spaceman” points to the supposition
that this guy’s bloodline really came from a planet, far, far away; not
Burbank, California, as some have suggested.
At age 69 (2016), Lee entered the
sport of politics, when he ran for governor of Vermont; he didn’t take campaign
contributions and his campaign slogan, “So
far left, we're right” was not sufficient to place him in the Governor’s
Mansion, but he did received 8,912 votes.
For years, as a professional basketball player, Michael Jordan, was suspect of being of alien descent, primarily
because his far superior basketball playing style and ability so eclipsed his
worthy opponents. Jordan, as a professional basketball player,
was beyond compare; little wonder, following his less than remarkable attempt
at professional baseball, there are still good folks who believe his baseball
days were nothing more than a “smoke screen” he tactfully placed before his
fans and the media so as to conceal his true identity — an alien hybrid whose
mother was from the same star system as Rodman’s dad.
Close Encounters are not a
new phenomenon:
“In 593 B.C. Ezekiel recorded a whirlwind to the north which appeared
as a fiery sphere.
In 1254 at Saint Albans Abbey, when the moon was eight days old, there
appeared in the sky a ship elegantly shaped, well equipped and of marvelous
color.
Christopher Columbus, while on the deck of the Santa Maria on October
11, 1492, at 10:00 P.M., observed “a light glimmering at a great
distance.” It disappeared and
reappeared several times during the night, moving up and down, “in sudden and
passing gleams.”
In 1520 France, there was sighted a round-shaped object with rotating
lights and two fiery suns.
In 1874 Texas, a farmer reported seeing a dark flying object in the
shape of a disc cruising in the sky at a wonderful speed. “
These are but a few of many such
events recorded by historians related to Close Encounters with UFO’s and beyond; such
events have been reported throughout documented history and in countless parts
of the world, giving raise to questions about life on other planets and whether
extraterrestrials have visited Earth of recent date and or in the distant past.
From the modern prospective, they became a key subject of interest—and the
inspiration for movies, TV shows, and books–following the advancement of
rocketry shortly after World War II.
While it’s true that the unaided
eye can, and often does, play tricks on the mind regarding UFO sightings or Close
Encounters and while in certain respects radar sightings are much more dependable,
yet, can occasionally fail to discriminate between meteor trails,
ionized gas such as a flame, or even rain in the atmosphere, thus creating more
doubts in such situations . . . to
acknowledge such deficiencies most certainly does not disprove all reported Close
Encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects.
Just ask anybody that knows: We are not alone!
Sources:
http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-ufos
