With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

John Carpenter's The Thing is a sci-fi horror classic, but decades before his vision haunted the big screen, there was another adaptation.

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day effortlessly weaves real-world legends and UFO mythology into a seamless narrative. Spielberg has always been fascinated by aliens and UFOs; this is the man behind Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.