The latest release of shocking top secret Pentagon UFO files - after being buried for more than 40 years – reveal a string of terrifying encounters with extraterrestrials, including a perilous dogfight between 13 Russian-made military jets and a spacecraft with capabilities far beyond human comprehension.

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified Earthlings. That changed in a big way after 9/11, when Spielberg made a couple of Tom Cruise -starring sci-fi blockbusters grappling with a changed world.

No bombshells so far in the latest Pentagon batch of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files. But they show the CIA hid its involvement.

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the 1977 classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" returns with "Disclosure Day," which imagines closely-held secrets surrounding alien visitations.

Steven Spielberg says he believes aliens have already reached Earth. The director made the comment in a new CBS Sunday Morning interview with Ben Mankiewicz ... Read More

The International Raëlian Movement, also know as Raëlism, is a UFO religion that was founded in France in the 1970s. It is still practiced today, with its strongest followings in parts of Asia, Africa and Canada, according to Susan Palmer, a sociologist who studies new religious movements at Concordia University in Montreal.

In 2023, Grusch gave NewsNation his first on-the-record interview, claiming the government had vehicles of non-human origin.

But with the release of his new sci-fi film “Disclosure Day” (read my review here ), I thought it would be fun to offer a ranked list of just Spielberg’s sci-fi movies. I’m going to be liberal with my definition of sci-fi.