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

Steven Spielberg knows aliens. Though he hasn't made as many UFO-centric movies as you might assume (he's made more movies about WWII than he has about extraterrestrials), the director behind Close ...

In the earlier days of Hollywood, alien movies were regarded as perfectly fun popcorn flicks, but it was Steven Spielberg who perfected the genre and led it into its most earnest era. The legendary ...