Journal of Humanoid Studies

History

The Journal of Humanoid Studies is a small, self-published specialist journal devoted to the systematic cataloguing of humanoid encounters within and around the UFO phenomenon. The archive holds one issue, Volume 2 Number 2, dated 14 February 2011. The journal extends the standard Hynek close-encounter taxonomy, which classified encounters as CE1 (sighting), CE2 (physical evidence) and CE3 (occupant seen), into a fuller alphabetic scheme that distinguishes between substantively different kinds of CE3 case.

The extended typology breaks CE3 into Types A through H plus a residual Type X. Type A is the canonical Hynek case, in which an entity is seen inside or on top of a craft. Type B is the entity seen entering or exiting. Type C is the entity in the immediate vicinity. Type D is the entity seen in the same area as reported UFO activity. Type E is the bedroom-visitation pattern, where the entity is seen without any associated UFO. Type G covers direct contact or interaction, whether forced abduction or voluntary contactee-style meeting. Type F covers psychic contact where no entity is necessarily seen. Type H is the alleged crash-recovery scenario. Type X is the high-strangeness residue that does not fit any of the above.

Contents of Volume 2 Number 2

The February 2011 issue is structured around four standing sections that appear to run from issue to issue. The Current Case Log presents the new entity-encounter reports the journal is tracking. Encounters with the Blond and their kin, in its third instalment, runs the journal's continuing investigation of the Nordic-humanoid sub-tradition, which dates from the contactee era of the 1950s and recurs in modern abduction reports. The Pre-Arnold Corner catalogues entity encounters that predate the 24 June 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting which is conventionally treated as the start of the modern UFO era. The Fringe collects high-strangeness Type X material that does not fit elsewhere.