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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 ...

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Disclosure Day had people talking for its fresh take on alien contact and powerful sci-fi themes. These films follow the same path.

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...