This type of contact with a UFO includes the contemplation of sparkling and moving objects from a short distance (just a few hundred meters). The light emitted can be very intense; UFOs generate a glow from those areas over which it flies at the current moment in time. Eyewitnesses claim that UFOs come in different shapes: round, pyramidal, rectangular, the lights on the UFO often move in the opposite direction to the clockwise movement.
Close encounters of the first kind.
Flying objects sometimes stop a short distance from the ground and freeze, either making a quiet hum or making no sound at all. UFOs can also move low from the surface of the earth, flying very long distances. UFOs disappear with lightning speed, absolutely silently, usually flying sharply upward. Stories about contacts of the first type have accumulated in abundance; some UFOs were seen by several people at the same time; In all the stories there are a lot of similarities, as if different people saw the same (or identical) objects. Most often, such contacts occur at night in different parts of the globe, the average number of eyewitnesses is from 3 to 4.
Contacts of the first type are usually shocking and often instill fear and anxiety, but after them there is no evidence left. People who make contact experience such a strong shock that, in confusion, they forget to even take photographs of the UFO. The characteristic influence on people is described by the phrase of one of the UFO eyewitnesses back in the 50s of that century: “Take my word for it: if you ever meet such a thing in person, even if only for a short time, you will not be able to forget it until the end of your days.” . Encounters with UFOs are so amazing that stories about them are often not taken seriously, which is why people talk about what happened either only to a very limited circle of friends, or a very long time after the incident, or remain completely silent. Such stories are real only for their participants; to ordinary listeners they seem nothing more than fiction.
An ordinary encounter of the first kind occurred with a couple of sheriff's subordinates in America in 1966. Early in the morning, having slowed down near a car abandoned on the edge of a country road, they noticed an object "the size of an entire building." He descended to the edges of the trees and began to move in the direction of the people looking at him, emitting an increasingly powerful glow and filling the area with bright light. Suddenly the UFO stood still, making a little noise, and then completely moved back. The men followed him for approximately 60 miles at great speed. In addition to them, two more eyewitnesses noticed the UFO at the moment when it flew up and disappeared from sight. The officers who spoke about what happened were ridiculed in all the newspapers. It was through the fault of the newspaper men that the family of one of them fell apart and his career was ruined. Personal dramas like the one described are not that uncommon for people who have encountered UFOs. So we can rightfully add this item to the list of characteristic features of the phenomenon.
Close encounters of the second kind.
Contacts of the second type are in many ways similar to contacts of the first type, but the important difference is that after them all kinds of physical or mental consequences are observed. The physical consequences include circles on the ground, incinerated vegetation, failures in the operation of electronic equipment, and breakdowns of various engines. Among the mental ones we can list the following: attacks of excitement or even aggression in animals, in people the occurrence of short-term paralysis and numbness of the limbs, increased body temperature, a feeling of nausea, and the like. Less common is a complete loss of gravity (which causes a person to float above the ground), and a sudden healing of diseases.
It would seem that contacts of the second type should arouse great interest among ufologists, because here, in addition to the words of eyewitnesses, there remains very real evidence that can be analyzed. However, in fact, research in this area is rarely organized, to some extent affected by the fact that many scientists are afraid to closely study the issues of UFOs. Another problem lies in the weak information content of UFO traces. There is a catalog containing information about almost a thousand episodes involving UFOs in different countries. All of them belong to contacts of the second type and nowhere was even a fragment of a real UFO obtained. The traces resulting from the activity of flying objects are too unclear. They usually form on the ground during the landing or take-off of a UFO and look like scorched or crushed round zones measuring 6-10 m in size. The most amazing thing is that the marks do not disappear for a very long time and there is news that nothing appears on this earth for several years vegetation. Chemical analysis did not help explain the causes of the anomaly.
Contacts of the second type occur with people in the dark on deserted sections of the highway. Often a brightly shining UFO stops close to the witness, sometimes even right in front of his car, causing the engine to immediately stall and the headlights to go out. etc. Passengers are in terrible awe, closely watching the UFO until it flies away (usually still silently and quickly). Immediately after the UFO launches, the car engines start, which can happen without the help of the driver.
Close encounters of the third kind.
The most terrible and mysterious among the meetings of people with UFOs is the news that is classified as contacts of the third type. This type is characterized by a direct connection with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations, aliens. I am sure that every second person will immediately mentally imagine green men with big eyes and will never believe in the reality of such a meeting, writing it off as deception or illusion.
And yet, the wild popularity of the old film about aliens, which was called “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and was directed by Steven Spielberg, as well as the results of polls conducted in 1974 (providing data that approximately 5% of people believe in UFOs, and almost 50% generally believe in the existence of alien civilizations) confirm that the current inhabitants of planet Earth are morally quite ready to meet space aliens.
