Word: ufo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Klan in an Alabama newspaper interview, received a death threat and had to be whisked away for two weeks. Dillon's son received a kidnaping threat that brought in the FBI. Then, late one night, shooting halted abruptly so that everyone could observe what Spielberg believed to be a UFO cruising the sky. "Everyone was lying there on their backs with binoculars," says Dillon. "I remember thinking that if there were extraterrestrial beings up there observing us, they would think that earth creatures were flat beings with strange eyes." The object turned out to be an Echo satellite...
with alien life forms?but, of course, no one will believe his story. The rest of Close Encounters' plot follows Roy and several other UFO sighters, including a mysterious international scientist (Truffaut) and a neighborhood woman (Dillon), as they overturn their lives in a mad attempt to arrange a rendezvous with the extraterrestrial visitors. When an earthling makes actual contact with aliens, that is "a close encounter of the third kind." (The first kind is sighting; the second, physical evidence...
...million-dollar misunderstanding may not be the only jolt for lottery winners. Many are soon besieged by relatives, charities and causes that want to share the presumed riches. One Air Force sergeant who won the Maryland lottery was asked to contribute to UFO research. Dominic Barisano, 63, won the jackpot in Massachusetts, only to give away so much to his four children, 13 grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters that he had no money to pay his income taxes. Says his wife Concetta, 61: "I'm a little sorry we won. One of my grandchildren told...
...first ominous rumblings were heard in Peking at 3:40 on a rainy, windblown morning ]last week. It sounded, said a Japanese resident, "as though a UFO had whooshed its way over the city...
...nearly everyone recalls, while President Dwight David Eisenhower was putting on the White House lawn, reported flying-saucer sightings became almost as common as Studebakers. Dozens of books and articles were generated by the UFO phenomenon. A chosen few earthlings even claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Descriptions varied, from garden-variety little green men to simple aliens who resembled Italians dressed like Greyhound bus drivers. Reactions to UFOs usually depended on one's interests, angst and reflexes. While the jittery Air Force launched a top-secret investigation to prove whether or not the saucers were real, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung groped...