As Luke rode across the same cold and lonely ice plain of Hoth on his Tauntaun (snow lizard), he saw an object, hinking it might be a meteorite, drop from the sky through his pair of electrobinoculars.When it unexpectedly pops open, he screeches and scurries o hide.Elliott drops the milk carton on the kitchen floor and clutches his chest as they simultaneously experience surprise and fright.It was also memorable for the cameo appearances of real-life journalists-reporters (Elmer Davis, H.V.Kaltenborn, Drew Pearson, and Gabriel Heater) playing themselves.The entire film was a precursor o Spielberg""sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)andE.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and to John Carpenter""sStarman (1984).Director Brad Bird""s animated Cold War fableThe Iron Giant (1999), set in the 1950s, was about another peace-loving giant robot from outer space and its friendship with a young boy, who were sought by a paranoid government agent.Brassel criticized the operation planned by Musgrave as "poorly conceived and executed worse." The hard-drives in the damaged laptop computers taken from the warehouse were burned, scorched, and had holes - unsalvageable.