Strange things are happening around the world; things that challenge the imagination and open the mind to possibilities almost beyond imagining. Planes lost in WWII suddenly appear in a Mexican desert; a long lost ship turns up in the middle of the Gobi Desert; and in Dharmsala, Northern India, hundreds of people are gathered together, singing a short "tune" that consists of a mere five notes, over and over, repeatedly. When they are asked where they heard this tune, the throng, as one, dramatically thrust their hands into the air and point to the sky. Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary, a man who, after encountering an unexplainable phenomenon one night, becomes obsessed with discovering more, to the dismay of his wife (Teri Garr) and family. Legendary French filmmaker François Truffaut plays the head of a government agency hoping to attract the aliens to an isolated mountaintop in this unforgettable sci-fi thriller.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is director Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing movie about Earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man. The story is well told, with a brilliant beginning.

We have a true masterpiece in the sense, terrific visual effects (the early stages of ILM), great characters and one famous French director in the movie (Francois Truffaut). Lacombe is in fact inspired by Vallée and Hynek appears during the final UFO landing at Devil's Mountain. I love the aliens, they somehow represent the child within us, being so innocent (it's not a case a child is involved in the story).

It has to be noted the DVD edition contains interviews with Hynek himself!