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70 years later, the true story behind ET remains one of the most shocking real-life alien encounters
An odd event at a farmouse set between Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky influenced Steven Spielberg's most beloved movie.
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Steven Spielberg reveals real-life UFO encounter reports influenced his 'Disclosure Day' aliens
Steven Spielberg reveals Disclosure Day aliens were inspired by real UFO accounts as the film opens strong at the global box office.
It's an invigorating chase thriller, but where Spielberg once seemed to be leading the culture, he's now following decades of lore and mythology.
Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,
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Why a real alien encounter would push modern 'traditionalists' completely out of the church
Theological debates revived in June 2026 around the release of Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day suggest that, if an alien encounter ever did occur, it would be far more likely to drive today's self‑styled traditionalists out of church life than to bring organised religion itself crashing down,
“Disclosure” has become a cult word. It shouldn't be, since all it means, technically, is to reveal something. But the new wave of alien conspiracy theorists have made “disclosure” into a teasingly passive-aggressive code word.
Anthony Mennella shares bizarre alien encounters that viewers will not believe actually happened.
