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Spielberg and UFOs

John Ege
8 min readJul 30, 2022

The world used to be much smaller. I remember a time with 3 TV channels. It was much easier for society to be on the same page. UHF broadened that, spreading us out over a new rainbow of information. There was less content to be had and so things that aired once were now revving up in syndication. Star Trek went viral! The serious love for original Trek has definitely shaped media and society. Stephen Spielberg has shaped society. Not only did he have his fingers on the pulse of America, the world, but I too easily imagine the gestalt of his work hitting on the paranormal means he knows it’s real.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 Richard Dreyfus

Perhaps it’s an oddity that the character played by Richard Dreyfus had sunburn on the right side of his body after his encounter. It’s bizarre because, not many people have heard of that happening in real life. It has. Joyce Bowles, 1976, England- stated that very thing when she interviewed about her cigar shaped UFO encounter. She was told to keep quiet about her sighting by authorities, to which she responded ‘I am a free woman and I will speak what I like when I like.’ That’s not verbatim, but you can watch the video below and you can see she means business.

Yay her! That was 1976.

Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters, 1977… Did he lift that detail? Well, per him, yes he did! You will find that video link below as well. He…

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John Ege
John Ege

Written by John Ege

LPC-S, Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.

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