Steven Spielberg says he believes aliens have already reached Earth. The director made the comment in a new CBS Sunday Morning interview with Ben Mankiewicz ... Read More ...

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

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces ...

Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" packs a hopeful message into its alien-centric story, and there's plenty to dive into about what the movie wants to say.

In 1977, a US-backed search for alien signals detected a 72-second radio burst from deep space that was about 30 times stronger than normal background noise. The signal was so unusual that researcher ...

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

Steven Spielberg introduced the image of extraterrestrials with his 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Over the ...

Disclosing Spielberg’s Ego Our aging film directors have taken to self-retrospectives. Francis Ford Coppola made a big splash ...

The film that set the standard for such otherworldly optimism, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), shares much with ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sci-fi Spielberg is the best Spielberg: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” etc. The director’s track record for turning the ...

Late-period Spielberg remains one of cinema’s last great humanists, turning extraterrestrial wonder into a plea for empathy in an increasingly fractured world ...