In the earlier days of Hollywood, alien movies were regarded as perfectly fun popcorn flicks, but it was Steven Spielberg who perfected the genre and led it into its most earnest era. The legendary ...

You'd think that a man who has made four theatrical movies about contact with extra-terrestrial life, both benevolent and malevolent, would have had at least one close encounter in his lifetime. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Spielberg on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (CBS) After making so many movies involving aliens — and specifically so ...

While Stephen King's stories mostly depict extraterrestrials as scary and hostile, ironically, one of his favorites is this ...

On the highly unlikely but equally mind-blowing instance in which aliens really do come down to our shiny blue planet to see what's what, perhaps it might not be wise for world leaders to be the first ...

Humanity's ideas about alien existence often say more about us than the little green men we envision. Our conception of life beyond Earth reflects our collective hopes and fears about technology and ...

Not everyone is familiar with The Man Who Fell to Earth, especially since it’s a movie from the ’70s. Still, it’s an excellent pick for anyone looking for a very different take on the alien genre than ...

Los Angeles — Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T" to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg has spent ...

Where Spielberg's visions once seemed to be leading the culture, now he's following decades of lore and mythology. The UAP files show a lot of things we’ve seen before — in grainy U.S. military ...