Among the true-believer set, it’s called a Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind, or CE-5 for short. We’ve all heard stories about people who have seen UFOs, and late-night TV is filled with ...

Sharafian: The musicality and the way the Communiverse first contacts Elio is totally an homage to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” We reference that movie a lot because it’s also about ...

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.