In the seventies and eighties, the UFO trend took a giant leap with the release of films such as 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 appeared in the public eye, who in 1987 claimed that the United States government maintained relations with extraterrestrial beings and that a secret committee called Majestic-12 existed that had unspeakable pacts with the visitors. Lear's figure became from that moment on a central character of the American UFO conspiracy theory, but over the years he was gradually forgotten and his theses were considered mere fantasy. What most surprised the United States about the emergence of Lear as a great propagator of these theories about aliens is that he was not just any citizen, but rather the son of one of the main aviation magnates, the businessman and inventor Bill Lear, founder of companies that still bear his name today.