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SUBJECT: UFO REPORT CLASSIFYING FILE: UFO2579
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Contrary to popular opinion, UFOlogists do not study UFOs. They study UFO
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reports. Which makes a lot of sense when you figure that no one (except
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possibly Uncle Sam) has a real live UFO to study.
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The first step in studying any anomaly is to classify the data in as many ways
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as possible, so that correlations can be drawn and priorities set. The most
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frequently used system for classifying UFO reports is the system developed by
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J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, a famous astronomer and UFO
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debunker for the Air Force, who later became a believer and founded the Center
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for UFO Studies in Chicago. His system, which later gave rise to a famous
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movie title, is summarized below.
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UFO reports are divided into two major groups: Long-Range Sightings (LRS),
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which occur at 500' or more from the witness, and Close Encounters (CE), which
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occur at a range of less than 500'.
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Long Range Sightings are further broken down as follows:
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Nocturnal Lights (LRS-NL). By far the most common type of sighting. Basically
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lights in the sky, most can be explained as bright planets or aircraft with
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unfamiliar lighting arrangements. Most.
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Daylight Disks (LRS-DD), which may or may not be disk shaped. This category
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includes any sighting in which an object's rough shape can be made out, such
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as cigars, triangles, teardrops, etc.
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In addition, there are the Radar/Visuals, in which an object seen by a ground
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or air observer is independently tracked on ATC or military radar.
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Close Encounters are further broken down as follows:
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Close Encounters of the First Kind (CE-I). Mere sighting of Object.
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Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE-II). Object interacts with environment
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in some manner. This can include ground traces such as scorch marks and
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circular depressions, radiation anomalies, animal excitement, photographs, and
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the intriguing electromagnetic (EM) effects.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE-III). Sighting of entities associated
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with object.
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (CE-IV). This category was added after
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Hynek's death, to include instances of contact between percipient and entity,
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whether physical, verbal, telepathic, or otherwise. The most perplexing CE-IVs
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are the so-called "abductions," in which the percipient claims to have been
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forcibly brought on board the craft, sometimes being subjected to medical
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examinations.
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In addition to LRSs and CEs are cases that involve Crash/Retrievals, such as
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the Roswell Incident, and documents, such as the MJ-12 brouhaha. All these
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different types of cases are categorized in ParaNet files, and given a rating
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according to the quality of the evidence and their departure from the norm.
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This rating system is discussed in the file S-P.ASC.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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