Close Encounters may refer to: Close encounter, an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object Close Encounter (album), an album by Franco Ambrosetti, 1978 Close Encounters (Teddy Edwards and Houston Person album), 1999 Close Encounters (Gene Page album), 1978 Close Encounters, an episode of Naked Science See also Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a 1977 American science fiction film by Steven Spielberg Alien Encounters (disambiguation)