Roswell, Hollywood, and the Public Imagination of Extraterrestrial Life

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Hollywood has long shaped how people imagine intelligent life beyond Earth, especially through Steven Spielberg’s E.T. and Close Encounters, and if evidence of aliens were disclosed, public reactions would be mixed—some welcoming the discovery and others choosing caution.

Hollywoods narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades
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Hollywoods narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades

Hollywood has driven how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads. But fiction soon could be separated from — or revealed as — fact if government agencies release...