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One of the most energetic, breath holding scenes of the movie. This is my favorite. :) This also illustrates in their hesitation (the pilots) that how a pilot feared reporting a UFO, not if they didn't want to end up flying cargo planes or losing their wings alrogether.

A great scene. Well written acted, and directed.

If only we had taken this serious back in 1978. Now we're at the mercy of powers beyond us. We'll see what the next 5 years brings, hopefully nothing, but it sounds grim according Lue Elizondo and a few others in the know.

L1011 hells gate flying ship. Ate soul bey foe theyz mgins could start. After the engines gorged on chunks of human flesh, they belted out a huge burp of gore and bones. They the airplane took off, into hell space. Brilliant murder flying machine L1011 kill plane ate your soul.

I always enjoy the scene-setting preamble like this in any movie before it all kicks off - then my interest begins to wane*. CEOT3K is nearly ALL preamble and, therefore, by definition, the best movie ever 👽 *didn’t enjoy the extended cut with Neary wandering around the innards of the mothership. Too much, let it go

Love the steady camera. Not like the shakey ones now

I remember the whole family packed in at the 2 screen movie theater. Everyone laughed at the end scene punchline. Jonathan Livingston Seagull was on the other screen.

This one scene, i feel, authenticates the entire movie. Love it. Love it.

"Traffic is.... quite luminous, and is exhibiting some non-ballistic motion, over." I love this simple, understated observation. But it meant everything. And everyone's hair stands on end in the control room..... Non-ballistic motion..... hm!

I LOOOOOOVE this scene

Genius.

Agreed with below, excellent cinematography, sound etc...

Wer ist Roger?

What are the repercussions if they officially report?

Close Encounters, Poltergeist, Jaws, and E.T. stand out to me as having some of the most natural-sounding and -looking conversations ever put to film. Spielberg made magic with those early films.

Seems commercial & military pilots continue to have similar encounters decades later..

Always impressed by this scene, especially the performance of the controller, calm, focused, professional.

I've always loved the scene with the radar from Aliens, now I know where Cameron took inspiration from

This is my favorite scene in the movie

I guess I’m not the only one who thinks this short scene (no music, no action) is excellent and suspenseful.

I love the way at 03;19 the controller to the left of the primary controller is trying not to laugh when the pilot says 'I wouldn't know what to report'!

Perhaps the best part of the entire movie!

What Hollywood used to be.......sigh.

I didn't sign a nondisclosure...high school class. ( Jr ROTC ) . Field trip, to a military base. Massive concrete building, no windows, about four stories. One very big cube. Double doors, with couple guards, and what could only be described as a vault door. We go inside , look like a scene from that Peter Sellers movie...Guy rides the nuke down...Radar screens in huge circle, 12 to 15...Lots of weird stuff...around...So we are watching when an alarm goes off...long story short...from Va...no less, they pick up a plane coming out of Cuba, headed for Fla Keys...bunch of talking like these guys..later told it was Russian plane, and this is a game they play. They fly at Fla, and see how long it takes for our fighters to respond...as they pick them up, the Russians would bank off into a long turn to the east...Just jerking the chain. Time frame...1970ish

"That was reeaally close..."

I swear that ATC sounds like Morgan Freeman.

A common feature in Spielberg movies is real life scenarios, like people talking over other people just like in real life. Not waiting for a character to finish their lines. A realness to the scene.

Talk about racking up the tension!

if I was that black guy I would tell them MF to shut the hell up 1:38

They don’t make movies like these anymore. Modern films are awful in comparison.

One of the BEST scenes!

Such a fantastic scene. So much tension but all you're really looking at are a few guys and a computer screen. Spielberg made some bloody good ones.

Awesome

would you report a ufo in this situation over?

Proper ATC dialogue for this scene, not like todays Hollywood rubbish, Spielberg was well ahead of his time, he and his team did the research.

The gradual zoom in when the controller was asking if they wanted to report a UFO was mastery! As if to say, this is the moment of truth

As former Controller, it is immediately obvious to me that they are real Air Traffic Controllers. They transmit fast and to the point...😀

The best movie ever!!!

Is that a young Morgan Freedman??

Wow, TWA. Brings me back.

The 1970’s was definitely THE decade for great cinema. It’s all over now.😢

I wish Spielberg would get back to directing films like this. He can be very good with these intimate bare bones scenes and there are several in CE3K. In many ways this film is some of his finest work. The last 20 minutes is a bit soft but, otherwise, topnotch filmmaking.

I may be mistaken, but I think I read that the gentleman in this scene was a real air traffic controller, not an actor, which adds greatly to the scene's authenticity.

this still makes me laugh after all these years. this is the hidden magic speilberg has.

If it isn't Northrop's MD, why not?

One of the best scenes in the movie.

The suspense this scene creates… wow! Are they hostile? Are they curious? wtf is it? All pilots are like, “Naa.”

Not a phone in sight. Just people enjoying the moment.

Why are they all slurring like they’re drunk?

Wow. I saw this in the theater when I was 6 years old. I obviously didn’t grasp much of anything except the visual sights, sounds, and communication music.