Turns out the Nixon–Jackie Gleason alien legend is far from the only Hollywood close encounter.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic tapped into anxieties about the US government hiding UFO information from the public. It ...

The 1977 sci-fi UFO epic is influential yet, thanks partly to Star Wars, it's also like nothing else ...

Scene for scene, the movie is a vigorous and diverting ride. Yet coming after the mountains of real UAP footage we've seen, "Disclosure Day" never gives you the contact high of awe that "Close ...

With Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” due in theaters this week, we give props to the best space invasion movies of all time.

Devils Tower, Wyoming (CNN) — The buzz started in a hay meadow at the foot of a mysterious-looking geological formation. Helicopters and trailers arrived in large numbers, famous faces and a ...

Steven Spielberg has returned to the subject of extraterrestrial life with his new blockbuster. But, falling far short of ...

Steven Spielberg has always believed we’re not alone in this universe. With ‘Disclosure Day,’ he may make a believer out of ...

From Project Hail Mary to Independence Day, Alien to Arrival, these alien movies are much better than Disclosure Day.