Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Alien autopsy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nibiru collision, Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology and ufology, UFO Hunters, UFOs in fiction, UFO Files, Dark Skies, List of films featuring extraterrestrials, Ancient Aliens, Jeff Peckman, Extraterrestrials in fiction, Bruce Gentry, Project UFO, Sightings, J. J. Benitez, The Flying Saucer, The Disappearance of Flight 412, UFO convention, UFO Watchtower, UFOs: Seeing Is Believing, Space Aliens Grill & Bar, UFO-Memorial Angelholm, Sungods in Exile, New Lands, World UFO Day, Istanbul UFO Museum, Strange Universe. Excerpt: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (sometimes abbreviated to CE3K and often referred to as just Close Encounters) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary, a lineman in Indiana, whose life changes after he has an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO). The United States government and an international team of scientific researchers are also aware of the UFOs. Close Encounters was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction film. Though Spielberg receives sole credit for the script, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees. The title is derived from ufologist J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the third kind denotes human observations of actual aliens or "animate beings." Filming began in May 1976. Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens. Close Encounters was ...