CSETI & the CE-5 protocol
Dr Steven M. Greer founds CSETI and formalises 'CE-5' — human-initiated contact with UAP through meditation, tones and lights.
1990 CE · 38.07, -78.70 · status: claim
The account
Building on J. Allen Hynek's close-encounter scale (CE-1 to CE-3) and Jacques Vallée's proposed CE-4, Greer defined a fifth kind: 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind', in which humans deliberately initiate contact. CSETI (the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) trains groups to gather at night and 'vector' craft using shared consciousness, light signals and coordinates. The protocol later spread worldwide, including through a smartphone app.
The sceptical view
There is no controlled, peer-reviewed evidence that CE-5 produces contact; reported results are anecdotal and consistent with satellites, aircraft, meteors, expectation and group suggestion. Mainstream science treats the claims as unverified.
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