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Close encounter of the third kind (CE3)

Classifications & scales

A close encounter in which “occupants” — beings associated with the craft — are reported. Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) popularized the expression. The Kelly–Hopkinsville and Cussac cases are among the best-known accounts in this category.

In the major cases

• The Kelly–Hopkinsville Siege (1955)
• The Cussac Encounter (1967)
• The Emilcin Abduction (1978)
• The Father Gill Sighting (1959)

See also

• Close encounter of the second kind (CE2)
• Close encounter of the fourth kind (CE4)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Humanoid
• Close encounter of the first kind (CE1)
• Lonnie Zamora
• Maurice Masse (1918-2004)

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