Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind
Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: cases in which personal contact between an individual or individuals is initiated by the “occupants” of the spacecraft. Such contact may involve the transportation of the individual from his or her terrestrial surroundings into the spacecraft, where the individual is communicated with and/or subjected to an examination before being returned.
One might expect that a “scientific conference” devoted to people who have reported being kidnapped by “little green men” would be dismissed out of hand. But C.D.B. Bryan, the greatly admired journalist and author of Friendly Fire, did not dismiss it: the conference was to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would have as its chairmen a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry…
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November 2, 2011C. D. B. Bryan (1936–2009) was an American author and journalist. The former editor in chief of the satirical magazine Monocle, he is best-known for his nonfiction book Friendly Fire, which was made into an Emmy-winning TV movie for which he shares a Peabody Award. His other works include Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT.