Nobody has done more for extra-terrestrial PR than Steven Spielberg.
Even before he hit paydirt with blockbuster smashes "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "ET" and "War of the Worlds", the filmmaker's rookie, teenage self was watching the skies in "Firelight" (1964), the first movie he directed. He's since described the latter as "one of the five worst films ever made" — a claim we can't verify, seeing as only a few minutes of footage still exist — but it proves how long the director has been interested in little green men. (Other extra-terrestrial archetypes are, of course, available.)
