In 1978, a year after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg conducted an interview with Cinema Papers where he claimed that NASA has sent him a 20 page letter discouraging him to release the film. This is all in relation to Project Serpo where apparently 12 humans were sent to Zeta Reticule for a mission.
inews speculated that Dr J Allen Hynek informed NASA director of this and then NASA tried to dissuade Spielberg.
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