Disappointment Day

Spielberg's UFO return makes uneven landing

- GEORGE SIMPSON

HOLLYWOOD legend Steven Spielberg is no stranger to aliens.

He has made several movies about UFOs over the past 50 years — from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET the Extra-Terrestrial to War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Now the 79-year-old is back with what feels like a spiritual sequel to the thrills of Close Encounters, mixed with revelations almost as irritating as those at the end of his worst Indy adventure.

Nonetheless, Disclosure Day couldn't be more relevant. Over the last few years the US government has released videos of UFOs in previously classified military videos.

They appear as strange objects moving at speeds beyond our current technological capacity, often without apparent propulsion.