Spielberg really loves his aliens, doesn't he?Disclosure Day comes out today, and this is the fourth time this man has sat behind a camera and said, "Okay, but what if something came down from the sky.

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified Earthlings. That changed in a big way after 9/11, when Spielberg made a couple of Tom Cruise -starring sci-fi blockbusters grappling with a changed world.

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

The "Disclosure Day" filmmaker does think he should be "afforded the opportunity" to see a UFO, given "all the movies I made about non-human civilizations coming to Earth."

Watch the Alien franchise in order with our comprehensive list, from the 1979 original to Alien: Earth, and including the Alien vs. Predator crossovers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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