What is it with Spielberg and space aliens? We break down his career-long fixation

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.
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Close Encounters and E.T. director makes major UFO admission

Steven Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Disclosure Day and E.T., has said he believes in aliens.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Steven Spielberg at his weirdest, most personal, and best

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