Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind is a 2020 documentary directed by Michael Mazzola, featuring Dr. Steven M. Greer. The film explores human-initiated communication with extraterrestrial intelligence, presenting evidence through video footage and interviews with experts like Adam Curry of Princeton’s PEAR Lab, civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan, and Dr. Russell Targ, who led the CIA’s remote viewing program. It delves into the implications of such contact and suggests that a global movement toward peaceful interaction with extraterrestrial beings has already begun