Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Franois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object UFO.

In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe Franois Truffaut and his American interpreter, mapmaker David Laughlin, along with other government scientific researchers, discover Flight 19, a squadron of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing more thanyears earlier. The planes are intact and operational, but there is no sign of the pilots. An old man who witnessed the event claimed the sun came out at night, and sang to him. They also find a lost cargo ship in the Gobi Desert named SS Cotopaxi. At an air traffic control center in Indianapolis, a controller listens as two airline flights narrowly avoid a midair collision with an apparent unidentified flying object UFO, which neither pilot chooses to report, even when invited to do so. In Muncie, Indiana, 3yearold Barry Guiler is awakened in the night when his toys start operating on their own. Fascinated, he gets out of bed and discovers something or someone offscreen in the kitchen. He runs outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him.Investigating one of a series of largescale power outages, Indiana electrical lineman Roy Neary Richard Dreyfus experiences a close encounter with a UFO, when it flies over his truck and lightly burns the side of his face with its bright lights. The UFO, along with three others, are pursued by Neary and three police cars, but the spacecraft fly off into the night sky. Roy becomes fascinated by UFOs, much to the dismay of his wife, Ronnie. He also becomes increasingly obsessed with subliminal, mental images of a mountainlike shape and begins to make models of it. Jillian also becomes obsessed with sketching a uniquelooking mountain. Soon after, she is terrorized in her home by a UFO encounter in which Barry is abducted by unseen beings. ........

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