Glossary
The vocabulary you will bump into reading anything in this archive, from institutional acronyms (UAP, NHI, AARO) to lore terms (MIB, ETH, EDH, CE-3, CE-5). Search it, jump by letter, or follow the cross-references.
10 terms
A
- Abduction
- Reported experience of being involuntarily taken aboard a craft and examined by non-human entities. The Hill case (1961) is generally treated as the canonical first.
C
- Close Encounter
- J. Allen Hynek's classification of UFO experiences by proximity. CE-1: visual at <500ft. CE-2: physical effects. CE-3: occupants visible. Later expanded by others to CE-4 (abduction) and CE-5 (human-initiated contact, per Steven Greer).
D
- Disclosure
- The hypothesized release by governments of withheld UAP/NHI evidence. The 'Disclosure era' is dated by most observers to the December 2017 New York Times AATIP story.
E
- Extradimensional Hypothesis (EDH)
- The proposition that UAP originate from other dimensions or parallel realities rather than other planets. Associated with Jacques Vallée and John Keel.
- Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH)
- The proposition that UFOs/UAP are spacecraft from other planets — historically the dominant interpretation, increasingly challenged in academic ufology by interdimensional and ultraterrestrial alternatives.
M
- Men in Black (MIB)
- Mysterious dark-suited figures said to intimidate UFO witnesses into silence. The motif dates to Albert Bender's 1953 claim and was popularized by Gray Barker.
N
- NHI
- Non-Human Intelligence. Term increasingly used in Disclosure-era discourse to avoid the more loaded 'extraterrestrial'.
R
- Remote Viewing
- A claimed ability to perceive distant or hidden targets, studied in the Stargate Project (1972-1995) by the U.S. Army and CIA at SRI International.