CE5: The New Frontier of Contact is a documentary centered on the contact practice promoted by Steven Greer. The title uses “Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” for claimed human-initiated interaction with non-human intelligence, extending J. Allen Hynek's older close-encounter scale beyond its original categories. The film presents meditation, group intention, lights, tones, and observation sessions as a repeatable protocol rather than as passive UFO witnessing.

Its narrative combines interviews, field gatherings, personal testimony, and night-sky footage. Participants describe unusual lights, apparent responses, and transformative experiences; Greer interprets these events through a consciousness-centered model of contact. The documentary belongs to the wider CE-5 movement, in which organized outings and mobile tools are used to coordinate attempts. The film's evidentiary force depends largely on participant accounts and interpretation of distant visual phenomena.

That distinction matters because lights recorded during group sessions may have several possible sources, including satellites, aircraft, astronomical objects, flares, and camera artifacts. Intention preceding an observation does not by itself establish causation, and the documentary does not provide controlled trials that independently demonstrate communication with a non-human intelligence. Its claims are therefore substantially stronger than the public evidence needed to verify them.

The film is most useful as a direct expression of the CE-5 worldview: contact is portrayed as peaceful, accessible, and mediated by consciousness rather than government technology. It helped move the practice from Greer's organizations into a broader wellness and experiential community. As a media work, it documents what participants believe they experienced and how the protocol is taught; it should not be treated as scientific confirmation that the reported lights were responsive craft.