It's an invigorating chase thriller, but where Spielberg once seemed to be leading the culture, he's now following decades of lore and mythology.

Steven Spielberg has directed dozens of movies over his legendary Hollywood career. He only wrote five of those films — and two of them are his 1977 sci-fi blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind and his 2026 sci-fi blockbuster Disclosure Day.

Is Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Netflix? Where to stream Spielberg’s sci-fi classic in 2026.

What Roy Mauritsen remembers about seeing Steven Spielberg’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as a boy is the looming shape of Devils Tower. For a kid growing up in Suffolk County, the peculiarly flat-topped rock formation in Wyoming — which serves as the site of a mind-boggling meeting between mankind and alien-kind — was a mysterious and mesmerizing image.

Despite some rumors, Disclosure Day is not a secret sequel to Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters. But it does have a surprising connection to that film.

The legendary director says he's still waiting for his own alien encounter.

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