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

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 holds the key to the director's new film, Disclosure Day.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

ET director Steven Spielberg dives back into the extra terrestrial with his latest film while asking 'How do you astonish an audience when anything is possible, and nothing is real?

A look at 10 of the greatest alien sci-fi movies, from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, none by Steven Spielberg.