Volume 24, Number 21 & 22 · January 26, 1978
The Third Coming
By Martin Gardner
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
directed and written by Steven Spielberg, produced by Julia Phillips, by Michael Phillips. Released by Columbia Pictures
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
by Steven Spielberg
Dell, 256 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The Hynek UFO Report
by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Dell, 299 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens with a bang. At first the titles flash on and off in eerie silence, then a faint sound slowly swells in volume until it explodes. A symbol of the explosion that created the universe? The producers' hope that the movie will blow everybody's mind?
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