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Close Encounters Air Traffic Control Scene

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Uploaded by on Mar 11, 2008

The tension in this scene is thick enough to cut with a knife. Excellent piece of film making. Back when spielberg made GOOD movies!

See what happens next to AIR EAST 31 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNG2FDKaZoQ

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  • I watched this when I was a child and I still don't understand why won't they report the UFO...why?? lol

  • @pandadardar

    Appearing flaky can harm a pilot's career. Reputation is a very important aspect of being a pilot. You want to be known as a rock-solid guy with good hands and sound judgment. You don't want to be known as the crazy guy who sees little green men.

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  • This was back when Spielberg crafted great little gems into his films instead of pumping cash into diarrhea like Transformers 3

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  • what the name of this movie?

  • Awesome scene, very realisitic dialogue, great direction - the other controllers talking over the top just adds to the authenticity.

  • @pdt1515 Or War of the Worlds. Only good thing about that film was the tripods. And the first teaser trailer. As for the above scene, it so closely matches what happened to that KAL jet near Alaska it's staggering, right down to the calls to the military.

  • I love how, at 0:02, the words come out of the radar sweep.

  • The controller talking to the aircraft was the Deputy Manager of Los Angles ARTCC (a Friend of mine) He was a Center Controller earlier in his career. Accord to him, the scene was filmed at Los Angles Center in Palmdale Ca. on the Mid shift...

  • @roquefortfiles Could not have said it any better!

  • This scene is absolutely brilliant. It creates the mystery of the UFO's in your mind before you even see them. It makes you WANT to see them all the more. Not only that but it is a very realistic scene. There is not one false beat. It sets the stage for the rest of the movie and draws you in even more. When he says.. "Traffic is quite luminous and exhibiting nonbalistic motion" your mind just races filling in the images. Great film making.

  • @pandadardar : Logical question. Nevertheless, my father was Lieutenant Colonel for Air Force and he told me that if we ever report what we see up there, they will think we are crazy...

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