![]() The kind-hearted alien Budde befriends the family's autistic son Jaybird, and their sweet, playful scenes are moments of respite from the overall terror. ![]() Sayles' draft depicted a small group of malicious aliens - Squirt, Skar, Klud and Hoodoo - that threaten a rural family and brutally kill livestock with one touch of their long, bony finger, which emits an eerie light (this device is used in "E.T." in a very different way). A Kentucky family claimed they witnessed strange lights in the sky and then were terrorized by stout "goblins" peering in their windows. Spielberg first heard this strange story from Josef Allen Hynek, a UFOlogist who worked on "Close Encounters." After "Watch the Skies" was renamed "Night Skies" because someone owned the rights to the phrase, Spielberg wrangled genre legend John Sayles, who had just written "Piranha" for director Joe Dante, to flesh out the screenplay. Spielberg wrote a treatment entitled "Watch the Skies" (the original title for "Close Encounters") based on the famed Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter. ![]()
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