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UFO&PSI Glossary: C
Glossary comes from latin "glossarium, glossa" (foreign word), and is in fact a list of often difficult-to-understand words followed by their definitions. An encyclopedia of any kind cannot be considered complete without providing a comprehensive glossary.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 24, 2006 11:13 AM
CE1: Close Encounter of the First Kind, describing a close sighting of a UFO.
CE2: Close Encounter of the Second Kind, describing an observation of a landed UFO that leaves traces on the ground.
CE3: Close Encounter of the Third Kind, describing a sighting of humanoids close to a landed UFO.
CE4: Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind, abduction cases.
CE5: Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind, describing a communication with an extraterrestrial entity.
C.E.R.P.A.: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux, a french private center funded in 1989 by ernard Hugues, Gérard Roméo et Patrick Teboul at Marseille. The CERPA organizes a four-day informative UFO days in Marseille, in which the one in 1995 has been remarkable. From 1990 they publish eight issues of Aérospatial, Météorologie, Astronomie and the first issue of Univers OVNI in 1996.
Cherubin: human shaped being belonging to the celestial rows. Cherubin in Hebrew means "full of knowledge". Also known as Sylphs, prophets Techaria and Ezechiel talk about such creatures, while in more modern times Giorgio Dibitonto describes his contacts with them.
CISU: "Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici", one of the most authoritative and serious Italian centre for UFO studies.
Celestial mimesis: the supposed tendency of UFOs to sometimes appear with astronomical events (meteors, for ex.) to hide their presence.
C.I.R.V.I.S.: Communications Instructions for Reporting Visual Intelligence Sightings, urgent secret report addressed to the air Defence command, mandatory in case of UFO sighting by the Air Force.
Clypeology: study of mythological and historical traditions linkable to UFOs in the past (from "clypei ardentes"), burning shields, used by many latin writers to describe UFO events.
Clones: beings born from a DNA-copying process, producing life forms identical to the original.
Committee For Peaceful Use Of The Space: United Nations' organization that in 1978 has established an international committee of five experts to study the UFO phoenomena. Belonged to it astrophysician Hynek, astronomer and mathematician Vallée, psychologist Saunders, astronaut Cooper and physician Poher.
Contactees: subjects said to be in continuous contact with extra-terrestrial intelligences, directly or through ESP. They show a real "cultism" behaviour with a taste of end-of-millennium, without producing genuine evidence of their tales.
Cover up: in ufology, it's commonly described as a supposed secrecy and public denial on the UFO phenomena leaded by the Superpowers (USA, Italy, etc.) maintained in the years through such cover up.
C.R.C.: Control Reporting Center. As part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, CRC aims at detecting any airships over protected skies, identifying them as friends or enemies and eventually alerting the air forces.
Crop circles: traces of unknown nature and origins, firstly sighted in England, said to be related to UFOs.
CUFOS: Center for UFO Studies, found in Chicago by Hynek and today dedicated to his memory (JAH/CUFOS).
Cultism: attitude transforming the real interest in the problem to forms of irrational cult, rescue from the high based on the charismatic contactee. Alien pilots are seen as "deus ex machina".
Cultural shock: a diffused condition of collapse of main norms and values, inducted by an impact of contact among different cultures in an inferior civilzation.
CUN: "Centro Ufologico Nazionale", Italian centre for UFO studies.
CUSI: "Centro Ufologico Della Svizzera Italiana", the most authoritative centre in Tessin (Switzerland), founded in 1995.
C.W.: Continuous Wave.
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