CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
From the IntroductionAlmost everyone today has read about (and seen in movies and on television) fantastic accounts and graphic displays of strange flying discs that hover silently, rise up vertically at fantastic speed, and perform breathtaking maneuvers in the air and even below water. We are captivated by their dazzling appearances and antics, and wonder whether they could be real. To many people, these images came only from creative imaginations of UFO fanatics in Hollywood or Sci-Fi computer-graphics, while to a growing number of others they represent actual three-dimensional objects.Usually these objects seem to mind their own business. According to many thousands of eye witness reports, press clippings, movies, and occasional radio and television accounts, these aerial objects act as if they are oblivious of their witnesses.Yet, once in a while we read about someone who waves at the craft or shines a light at it at night. Seldom do we find out what happens in these kinds of circumstances. This is the main subject ofCE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind.Occasionally someone behaves in a way that seems to be exactly repeated by the UFO. Two short flashes of a flashlight, for example, are followed by two short light flashes from the airborne object. A pilot wiggles the wings of his airplane slightly, and an oval metallic disc nearby wavers soon afterwards. A driver is exactly paced by a nearby unidentified aerial object mile after mile of curving roads. Do such mimicking responses by the unusual phenomenon represent some type of deliberate communication, a pure coincidence, or something else we know nothing about? One purpose of this book is to explore these possibilities.