Spielberg's decades-long UFO fascination began with a 1957 desert meteor shower. Trace how one childhood moment shaped 'Close Encounters', 'E.T.', and beyond.

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A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

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If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

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