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Jake New

Jake New is a writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. He writes about education, film and history. His work has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Teen Vogue, Slate, Indianapolis Monthly and Bright Wall/Dark Room.

Director Steven Spielberg on the set of Disclosure Day, his latest UFO-inspired film

What’s Behind Steven Spielberg’s Lifelong Obsession With Flying Saucers and Extraterrestrial Visitors?

Half a century after “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the director returns to the subject of UFOs with “Disclosure Day.” His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encounters in American suburbia