From Roswell to Disclosure: Hollywood’s Role in Shaping Our View of Aliens

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Hollywood’s depictions of aliens shape how we imagine real extraterrestrials and how we’d react if new disclosures about intelligent life surfaced, with films like E.T. and Close Encounters guiding us toward peaceful or perilous possibilities while debates spurred by Roswell, Obama’s hints, Trump’s declassification push, and voices like Priscilla Wald and Timothy Gallaudet ask whether new revelations will illuminate humanity or frighten it.