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.