In the seventies and eighties, the UFO craze took a leap in scale with the release of films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, both directed by Steven Spielberg. Amidst this wave, an aviator with ties to the CIA named John Lear came to public attention, who in 1987 claimed that the United States government was maintaining relations with extraterrestrial beings and that there was a secret committee called Majestic 12, which had unspeakable pacts with the visitors. From that moment on, Lear's figure became a central character in American UFO conspiracy theory, but as the years passed, he was gradually forgotten and his theses were considered a mere fantasy. What surprised the United States most about the emergence of Lear as a great propagator of these theories about aliens is that he was not just any citizen, but the son of one of the main aviation magnates, the businessman and inventor Bill Lear, founder of companies that still bear his name today.