The model from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Model-makers inserted practical jokes throughout the model, knowing it was unlikely to be captured on screen. In one section, they included airplanes that had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle. 

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December 08, 2016

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