The Alien Autopsy Scandal broadcasts on Sky Documentaries at 9pm on Friday 12 June. It’ll also be available on the Sky Go streaming service for Sky customers, or on NOW for NOW subscribers.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified Earthlings. That changed in a big way after 9/11, when Spielberg made a couple of Tom Cruise -starring sci-fi blockbusters grappling with a changed world.