Close Encounters (Clouseau Album)
Close Encounters may refer to: * Close encounter, an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object * Close Encounter (album), ''Close Encounter'' (album), an album by Franco Ambrosetti, 1978 * Close Encounters (Teddy Edwards and Houston Person album), ''Close Encounters'' (Teddy Edwards and Houston Person album), 1999 * Close Encounters (Gene Page album), ''Close Encounters'' (Gene Page album), 1978 * "Close Encounters", an episode of ''List of Naked Science episodes#Season 2, Naked Science'' See also

* ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', a 1977 American science fiction film by Steven Spielberg * * Alien Encounters (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Close Encounter
In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it were first suggested in astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek's 1972 book ''The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry''. Categories beyond Hynek's original three have been added by others but have not gained universal acceptance, mainly because they lack the scientific rigor that Hynek aimed to bring to ufology. Sightings more than from the witness are classified as "Daylight Discs," "Nocturnal Lights," or "Radar/Visual Reports." Sightings within about are subclassified as various types of "close encounters." Hynek and others argued that a claimed close encounter must occur within about to greatly reduce or eliminate the possibility of misidentifying conventional aircraft or other known phenomena. Hynek's scale became well known after being referenced in a 1977 film, ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', which ...
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