Dan Farah
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That's the French scientist character in Close Encounters is based on Jacques Vallée.
And Jacques had worked with Project Blue Book.
And I believe Spielberg's talked publicly about how
Alan Hynek, who was the lead investigator of Project Blue Book, was one of his consultants.
So yeah, he had people informing him.
There's also that great story.
I can't remember who shared this, but there's a great story about Spielberg doing a screening of ET at the White House for Reagan.
And on the way out, Reagan commenting on how there's just a few people who know how close to true the E.T.
story is or how much truth there is or some line like that.
I believe Spielberg might have told this story.
Really?
We got to look it up.
We got to find it online.
No way.
It's a great story.
Look that up.
Who was the president that was super obsessed with the UFOs?
Well, it was a lot.
Ford was into it.
Carter was into it.