Contact by Carl Sagan was made into a movie by the same name. While Close Encounters directs the protagonist to a certain site where the aliens will land, in the Contact scenario the aliens send plans on how to build a structure that conveys the main character to their planet (although that is debatable ... the movie makes it unclear ... it could be her consciousness that is transported by the machine to a place that looks like Earth and the alien looks like her father).
Carl Sagan was "the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception." (The Carl Sagan Portal)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was written and directed by Steven Spielberg, in 1977. The protagonist is a man who becomes enthused to an absurd point, by a shape of a mountain. He keeps drawing it, even creating it with mud in his kitchen. In the end, it is this mountain that the aliens are going to land, and many other people went just as dotty over various aspects of the landing, such as the sound the ship makes, or the lights. Spielberg has directed many sci-fi movies such as ET and Jurassic Park, and more recently War of the Worlds (not my favourite). He has been involved in other genres with as much, or even more success.
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