There’s admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see Disclosure Day for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with the colossal, groundbreaking success of Jaws, which opened fifty-one years ago this month, Spielberg became the director most responsible for the phenomenon of the summer blockbuster.

Spielberg followed that career-defining smash hit with another sensational crowd-pleaser, the sci-fi epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in 1977. Though he went on to make a number of movies involving aliens arriving on earth, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and War of the Worlds (2005), it’s Close Encounters that’s the clear forerunner of Disclosure Day. Both films center around ordinary Americans who have initially terrifying encounters with aliens that so alter their lives that they become isolated from their families and communities. But they’re ultimately rewarded by spiritually transcendent contact with beings from outer space.

These beings are tremendously evolved, by the way, and apparently nice as hell once you get to know them.