Fire In the Sky was based on the 1978 book The Walton Experience from real-life logger Travis Walton. In it, Walton details his own alleged experience with an alien abduction on November 5, 1975, a tale which he first sold to The National Enquirer.

Steven Spielberg makes a plea for empathy with Disclosure Day.

By this point, Carpenter was well-versed in science fiction, but this film only uses the genre as a framework for exploring love, loss, and middle America. It begins when an alien spacecraft receives a message from an American space probe inviting them to come to Earth.

Aliens have been a subject of films for over a century, and they’ve grown into a beloved and oft-revisited trope in cinema during that time. Envisioned and executed by some of the greatest filmmakers of all time, the best of these movies take audiences ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we’re fighting time-traveling robots or out-of-control plagues.