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1	Opening: Let There Be Light	0:46
2	Navy Planes	2:07
3	Lost Squadron	2:23
4	Roy's First Encounter	2:41
5	Encounter At Crescendo Summit	1:21
6	Chasing UFOs	1:18
7	False Alarm	1:42
8	Barry's Kidnapping	6:19
9	The Cover-Up	2:26
10	Stars And Trucks	0:44
11	Forming The Mountain	1:50
12	TV Reveals	1:50
13	Roy And Gillian On The Road	1:10
14	The Mountain	3:31
15	"Who Are You People?"	1:35
16	The Escape	2:18
17	The Escape (Alternate Cue)	2:40
18	Trucking	2:01
19	Climbing The Mountain	2:32
20	Outstretch Hands	2:48
21	Lightshow	3:43
22	Barnstorming	4:26
23	The Mothership	4:34
24	Wild Signals	4:12
25	The Returnees	3:45
26	The Visitors/"Bye"/End Titles: The Special Edition Music By [When You Wish Upon A Star] – Leigh HarlineWords By [When You Wish Upon A Star] – Ned Washington	12:31

Credits

• Art Direction – Christopher Stern
• Composed By, Conductor – John Williams
• Coordinator [Arista Records Album Coordinator] – Gary Pacheco
• Coordinator [Music Coordinator] – Brendan Cahill
• Crew [Warner Brothers Scoring Crew] – Jay Selvester, Jerry Crawford, John Janios
• Edited By [Supervising Music Editor] – Ken Wannberg
• Engineer [Collector's Edition] – Shawn Murphy
• Interviewee – John Williams
• Liner Notes – Steven Spielberg
• Liner Notes, Interviewer, Executive Producer [Collector's Edition] – Laurent Bouzereau
• Mastered By [Mastering Engineer, Collector's Edition] – Patricia Sullivan Fourstar*
• Producer [Album] – John Williams
• Recorded By – John Neal
• Reissue Producer [Collector's Edition Produced By] – Shawn Murphy
• Supervised By [Music Supervisor] – Richard Berres*

Notes

Tracks 2 to 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15 to 17, 20, 21, 26 (The Visitors): previously unreleased.
Tracks 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 22 to 25, 26 (End Titles): contain previously unreleased music.
Tracks 5, 17, 18, 26 (The Visitors): not used in the film.

20-Bit digital mastering from the original master tapes: 1998

Recorded at Warner Brothers Scoring Stage I, Burbank, CA.

℗ 1977, 1998 & © 1998 Arista Records, Inc. Manufactured and distributed by Arista Records, Inc., a unit of BMG Entertainment. Motion picture artwork and photography © 1977, 1980, 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Printed in U.S.A.
Manufactured in U.S.A.

Issued in large foldout sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L431

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AL 9500, AS 9500	John Williams	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ‎(LP, Album + 7", S/Sided, Promo)	Arista, Arista	AL 9500, AS 9500	US	1977
11578	John Williams	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ‎(LP, Album)	EMI, Arista	11578	Colombia	1978
07822-19004-2, D122846	John Williams	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (The Collector's Edition Soundtrack) ‎(CD, Album, Club, RE, RM)	Arista, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc.	07822-19004-2, D122846	US	1998
AT8 9500	John Williams	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ‎(8-Trk, Album, Club + 7", S/Sided, Promo)	Arista, Columbia House	AT8 9500	US	1977
AL 9500	John Williams	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ‎(LP, Album + 7", S/Sided, Promo)	Arista	AL 9500	US	1977