Close Encounters of the Third Kind Easter Egg - Close Encounters Creator Makes an Appearance

The term "Close Encounters" was created by the late UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, who worked on Project Bluebook for the USAF as the astronomy expert. He created the "CE" reference as a way of catagorizing UFO reports.
As the "mothership" lands, the door opens...and a group of people who apparently have been missing for many years come out and state their names and ranks, etc. watch for a man with glasses and a pipe step out of the crowd of onlookers...you can't really miss him, as the camera focuses on him alone...it's Mr. Hynek himself!