Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Aliens, Spirituality & UFOlogy

Join us at the cabin for a semi-seasonal late-December big-budget sci-fi extravaganza as we tackle Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and its inspirations from the real-life world of UFOlogy. We cover:
-Close Encounters vs Star Wars
-The Paranormal boom of the 70s
-Themes of religion and spirituality in UFOlogy
-J Allen Hynek, 'secular' UFOlogy, and the ETH
-Small-town America as a magical place in film
-Real cases that influenced the film
-Alien abductions
-Spielberg's interest in UFOs
NOTES:
Rolling Stone Interview:
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/science-fiction-in-steven-spielbergs-suburbia-44190/
Varicose Brains, Martin Kottmeyer:
http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/varicose-brains-part-1-entering-grey.html
Directed by Steven Spielberg by Warren Buckland:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/directed-by-steven-spielberg-9780826416919/#:~:text=In%20this%20book%2C%20Warren%20Buckland,makes%20in%20structuring%20his%20blockbusters.