Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

==In popular fiction==
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Works of popular fiction have included premises and scenes in which a government intentionally prevents disclosure to its populace of the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The 1960s saw conspiracy films like ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (as well as the novel),.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CS2sldbDdP0C |isbn=9780160867118 |title=Remembering the space age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference |publisher=Government Printing Office |access-date=2021-04-05 |archive-date=2021-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225143832/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Remembering_the_space_age_Proceedings_of/CS2sldbDdP0C |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-RRCwAAQBAJ |isbn=9781101664155 |title=2001: A Space Odyssey |date=September 2000 |publisher=Penguin }}</ref> The 1970s saw the UFO conspiracy discussed briefly in Jack Nicholson vehicle ''[[Easy Rider]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AdQDYqBmmJYC&pg=PA25 |title=Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson |first=Patrick |last=McGilligan |date=January 26, 1996 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393313789 |via=Google Books |access-date=December 22, 2021 |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222055449/https://books.google.com/books?id=AdQDYqBmmJYC&pg=PA25 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in-depth in the [[Steven Spielberg]] films ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. The 1980s saw Spielberg return to the topic with ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' while Disney's [[Flight of the Navigator]] introduced UFO conspiracy theories to a childhood audience. The 1990s saw UFO conspiracy theories in films like  ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]'', ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'', and ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]''.<ref name="Donovan2011"/>{{rp|179}} Television series and films including ''[[The X-Files]]'', ''[[Dark Skies]]'', and ''[[Stargate]]'' have also featured efforts by governments to conceal information about extraterrestrial beings. In March 2001, former astronaut and United States Senator [[John Glenn]] appeared on an episode of the TV series ''[[Frasier]]'' playing a fictional version of himself who confesses to a UFO coverup.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/12/08/john-glenn-frasier/ |title=Watch John Glenn's Appearance on 'Frasier' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>

The plot of the [[Sidney Sheldon]] novel ''[[The Doomsday Conspiracy]]'' involves a UFO conspiracy, as did the plot of the 2021 series [[American Horror Story: Double Feature]].<ref>{{cite web |title=THE DOOMSDAY CONSPIRACY by Sidney Sheldon |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sidney-sheldon/the-doomsday-conspiracy/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |access-date=6 December 2017 |archive-date=7 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207020310/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sidney-sheldon/the-doomsday-conspiracy/ |url-status=live}}</ref>