Ok - I have been going through and updating and posting some of my pictures, and have been looking for just the right one to do this w/ - and think this is probably the best one.
So - your challenge - is to ID this artifact currently on display at the National Air & Space Museum - Udvar Hazy Center in Dulles, Virgina.
(I could have asked where it was located - but the group it was in and all of the tags on the picture should have given all that away).
Q - what is it?
A - The mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
Q - what was its role?
A - It was the mothership - where the old abuctee's came out - and Richard Dreyfuss went in.
Q - who was responsible for it?
A - Director = Steven Spielberg
Q - what is it made out of?
A - Plastic models - mostly Oil Refineries
Q - what year was it created?
A - 1977