Roswell to Disclosure: Hollywood’s Alien Narratives and the Question of What We Reveal About Ourselves
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Hollywood’s enduring portrayal of aliens as either benevolent warners or dangerous invaders has shaped how Americans imagine life beyond Earth, and with Obama and Trump pushing declassification and voices like Priscilla Wald and Steven Spielberg weighing in, a real extraterrestrial reveal would likely tell us more about ourselves than about aliens.
