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Fire in the Sky (1993)

★ 6.6 · 678 ratings on TMDB

Alien abduction. November 5, 1975. White Mountains, Northeastern Arizona.

Fire in the Sky poster★ 6.6

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.

DirectorRob Lieberman
CastBradley Gregg, Craig Sheffer, D. B. Sweeney, Georgia Emelin, Henry Thomas, James Garner
GenresDrama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Fire in the Sky keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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