Good question. I think “Close Encounters” was filmed there though. /joke alert
Nope. Close Encounters was filmed here in Mobile in the huge old Brookely Air Force Base hangers.
"The final sequence as well almost every scene that takes place at night was filmed at a giant airplane (not dirigible as is often stated) hanger in Mobile Alabama. The heat was unbearable, although it did not actually rain in the hanger as is often erroneously reported - the crew was only told that such a condition was possible because of the great humidity. There was a constant effort to get every arc light available to the location to film the reflections of the UFOs. Many lights in retirement from the Technicolor era were brought out of mothball for the spaceship sequences."