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The flying saucers have landed again… in Tinseltown, at least. For over 60 years, UFOs have left their mark on the Hollywood box-office in some of the most lucrative movies of all time, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Independence Day (1996), Men in Black (1997), and in the latest and most successful instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise (2008). Hollywood has continued to capitalise on the public’s insatiable appet­ite for aliens with the recent remake of the classic saucer movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and this March saw the release of two high-profile UFO movies: Monsters vs.