These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Steven Spielberg makes a plea for empathy with Disclosure Day.

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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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Spielberg's new thriller centers on a massive U.S. conspiracy to hide the fact that aliens have been visiting Earth for decades. If anything, though, the movie's pleasures feel more retro than timely.

Note: This article is based on a personal blog I wrote 10 years ago to entertain nobody but myself. So if you're one of the 10 people who read it, that's why parts of it seem familiar. Maybe that's ...