CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
出版社 : Sourcebooks Inc (1999年6月1日)
简介
今天几乎每个人都读过（并且在电影和电视上看到过）关于奇怪飞盘的精彩报道和图形展示，这些飞盘静静地盘旋，以惊人的速度垂直上升，并在空中甚至水下进行令人惊叹的机动。我们被他们耀眼的外表和滑稽动作迷住了，不知道他们是否是真实的。对许多人来说，这些图像只是来自好莱坞 UFO 狂热分子或科幻计算机图形学的创造性想象，而对越来越多的其他人来说，它们代表的是实际的 3D 物体。
通常，这些对象似乎只关心自己的事情。根据数以千计的目击者报告、新闻剪报、电影以及偶尔的广播和电视报道，这些空中物体表现得好像它们没有注意到他们的目击者。
然而，偶尔我们会读到有人在晚上向飞船挥手或向它发光。我们很少发现在这种情况下会发生什么。这是CE-5：第五类亲密接触的主题。
有时，有人的行为方式似乎完全被 UFO 重复了。例如，手电筒的两次短暂闪光之后，空中物体会发出两次短暂的闪光。一名飞行员轻轻摆动他的飞机机翼，不久附近一个椭圆形的金属圆盘摇摆不定。一英里又一英里的弯曲道路，一名司机被附近的不明飞行物精确地踱步。这种不寻常现象的模仿反应是否代表某种刻意的交流、纯粹的巧合或其他我们一无所知的事情？本书的目的之一就是探索这些可能性。
From the Introduction
Almost everyone today has read about (and seen in movies and on television) fantastic accounts and graphic displays of strange flying discs that hover silently, rise up vertically at fantastic speed, and perform breathtaking maneuvers in the air and even below water. We are captivated by their dazzling appearances and antics, and wonder whether they could be real. To many people, these images came only from creative imaginations of UFO fanatics in Hollywood or Sci-Fi computer-graphics, while to a growing number of others they represent actual three-dimensional objects.
Usually these objects seem to mind their own business. According to many thousands of eye witness reports, press clippings, movies, and occasional radio and television accounts, these aerial objects act as if they are oblivious of their witnesses.
Yet, once in a while we read about someone who waves at the craft or shines a light at it at night. Seldom do we find out what happens in these kinds of circumstances. This is the main subject of CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind.
Occasionally someone behaves in a way that seems to be exactly repeated by the UFO. Two short flashes of a flashlight, for example, are followed by two short light flashes from the airborne object. A pilot wiggles the wings of his airplane slightly, and an oval metallic disc nearby wavers soon afterwards. A driver is exactly paced by a nearby unidentified aerial object mile after mile of curving roads. Do such mimicking responses by the unusual phenomenon represent some type of deliberate communication, a pure coincidence, or something else we know nothing about? One purpose of this book is to explore these possibilities.
