Hollywood and the record
Films about visitors, from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Close Encounters, and the paper trail of what the Pentagon and the CIA did with Hollywood.
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Soft Disclosure: Hollywood's Saucers and the Robertson Panel's Disney Line
Soft disclosure is the claim that Hollywood's films about visitors from space prepare the public for an official admission; Bruce Rux argued the older reverse, that the films were used to steer interest away. This article sets both beside the paper trail: the Robertson Panel's 1953 Disney line, the Pentagon and CIA film offices, the refused Close Encounters and the E.T. night at the White House. What the files never reach is still open.