Based on actual cases "The Fourth Kind"

Based on actual abduction cases "The Fourth Kind"

“Some of what you are about to see is very disturbing – This film is a dramatization of events that occurred during October 2000. Everything in this movie is supported by archive footage,” claims the movie’s website.

“The Fourth Kind, opening November 6, hopes to trick some folks into curiosity in the two months leading up to its release. On the official website, the links are to various UFO websites specializing in theories, abductions, and evidence, so as to make the film itself look like a clinical study instead of a blockbuster film,” writes Brian Haughey.

The trailer sets up the film’s premise in a voice-over by the lead actress: “My name is Milla Jovovich, and I will be portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler. This isn’t the first time a movie claims to be based on a true story – Remember 1999′s ‘The Blair Witch Project’?


A close encounter in ufology is an event where a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. He introduced the first three kinds of encounters; two more sub-types of close encounters were later added by others, but these additional categories are not universally accepted by UFO researchers. (Source)

Sightings more than 500 feet (160 m) from the witness are classified as “Daylight Discs,” “Nocturnal Lights,” or “Radar/Visual Reports.” Sightings within about 500 feet are subclassified as various types of “close encounter.” Hynek and others argued a claimed close encounter must occur within about 500 feet to greatly reduce or eliminate the possibility of misidentifying conventional aircraft or other known phenomena. (Source)

Close Encounter of the First kind (Source)
A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects

Close Encounter of the Second kind (Source)
An observation of a UFO, and associated physical effects from the UFO, including:
* Heat or radiation
* Damage to terrain
* Human paralysis
* Frightened animals
* Interference with engines or TV or radio reception.
* Lost Time: a gap in one’s memory associated with a UFO encounter.[5]

Close Encounter of the Third kind (Source)
An observation of what Hynek termed “animate beings” observed in association with a UFO sighting. Hynek deliberately chose the somewhat vague term “animate beings” to describe beings associated with UFOs without making any unfounded assumptions regarding the beings’ origins or nature. Hynek did not necessarily regard these beings as “extraterrestrials” or “aliens”, and in his 1972 book, he further expressed discomfort with such reports, but felt a scientific obligation to include them, at the very least because they represented a sizable minority of claimed UFO encounters.

Close Encounter of the Fourth kind (Source)
A human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants. This type was not included in Hynek’s original close encounters scale.

Close Encounter of the Fifth kind (Source)
* Vallee describes a CE5 as “[UFO] cases of lasting physiological impact, such as serious injury or death.”
* Steven M. Greer’s CSETI group describes[citation needed] a CE5 as purported encounters of joint, bilateral contact

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