Talk:Close encounter

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[edit] Seventh kind

We need a Close encounters of the Seventh Kind. This is in which the UFO witness is on the UFO, and the military takes it out. I've heard of a case of this nature from C2CAM while I was in the AZ area. A UFO was allegedly shot down over a military base in FL. The govt. got the UFO, aliens and some people abducted by the aliens. Martial Law 03:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I am unable to confirm this, nor deny this either. Martial Law 03:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

That's sixth kind: Someone (Alien or Human) gets killed. Seventh is about NEW LIFE ! --87.3.213.14 18:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citations of the first kind?

I've an old paperback book titled "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind" which recounts various sexual encounters with extraterrestrials. I mention this for two reasons: 1. it's a laff riot, and 2. it points up a problem with this page, namely that none of these expansions of the CE1-3 scale has either authority (which isn't so bad) or citation (which is). Without citation or some other means of weighing the usefulness of proposed labels, this page can only remain a catalog of its drafter's own preferences. True, many Wikipedia pages can also be described that way, but among paranormal-themed pages, it comes across as being more of a serious flaw. Adding citations would do a lot to heighten the NPOV here, or alternately, listing the various proposed expansions without ranking them as "fifth", "eighth", etc. If the field itself is not decided on a terminology, neither should an article about the state of the field, right?

I agree with your considerations. I've added some comments about subtypes to the third kind proposed by Ted Bloecher. --ElfQrin 13:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)