"Beyond the Alien: A Jacques Vallée-Inspired Reading of Spielberg’s Film"

A Vallée-Inspired Interpretation of Spielberg’s Alien Film At first glance, Spielberg’s new alien film appears to be a familiar story: humanity faces a crisis, mysterious visitors arrive, and a message of hope and peace is offered. However, viewed through the ideas of Jacques Vallée, the film can be interpreted in a much more ambiguous way. Vallée has often questioned the assumption that UFO phenomena are simply visitors from another planet. One of his central ideas is that the phenomenon may...