It's been a curiously seesawing first six months. The movies have been dominated as much by 26-year-old ...

One pilot's offhand description in 1947 started a national obsession that never quit.

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

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The Minions have been speaking their own funny language for years, but it turns out those words are not as random as many fans believed. The little yellow characters first appeared in Despicable Me in ...

Steven Spielberg just revealed Disclosure Day aliens echo the haunting descriptions from Zimbabwe’s Ariel School sighting. Spielberg has spent his career turning humanity’s hopes and fears about ...

Here is one thing you probably know about Jackie Gleason, the famously “rotund comedian,” to use an old Times description: he was the star and guiding force of “The Honeymooners,” the nineteen-fifties ...

Alien conspiracy theory is getting respectable (with a little help from "Disclosure Day"), and it has helped bring America back to magical thinking.

Steven Spielberg isn't just the director of several classic movies featuring aliens. He's also a believer. His father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer and big science fiction reader who ...

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...

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