How they SECRETLY made a perfect movie trilogy across 40 years and no one realized

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Rating: B.  It was a great film, but it is a bit dated.

E.T The Extraterrestrial. (1982). Rating: A

War of the Worlds.  (2005). Rating: B+.  It is most loyal version to the book.

Now we have Disclosure Day, another Steven Spielberg alien movie...