What movie late 70's early 80's. Floating spheres, UFOs, detectives?

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(This isn't me, but someone else.)

  The movie I'm looking for was released around the mid to late seventies, probably very early 80's. I've been searching for it for years. 
  I watched it as a little kid when it came out on cable TV in the 80's.
  Around six or seven years ago, I saw a little part of it on the sci-fi channel, but never got the title. Also I don't know any of the actor's names nor any more information about the movie. But I know it exists! 

  I have very, very vague memories of it, but I can remember some elements about the movie. 
Floating spheres (probably someone or something inside of them), UFO's, and detectives. 
  A few weeks ago, I was watching Network; somehow watching Beatrice Straight's performance gave me a familiar feeling that she was in my "lost" movie. So I searched her filmography and the only movie that has a similiar profile as the movie I'm looking for is The World of Darkness, but unfortunately there isn't much information about the movie. Also, it COULD be that I'm confusing this because she's also in Poltergeist. 
  The reason I mention this is that I'm almost certain that in my "lost" movie there's a scene of her with a floating sphere in front of her, she's crying and the floating sphere says "Mommy?...Mommy?"; very eerie, at least it was for me. BUT, there's a similiarity with Poltergeist in a scene where Caroline says the same line... I could be mixing both movies. BUT I know for a fact that the scene exists in the film I'm looking for, just not 100% sure it's Beatrice Straight. 

  The only other movie I've found that's somewhat similiar to the the floating spheres is Strange Invaders, but it's not the one I'm looking for. I had high hopes for that one, but that's the ONLY element similiar to the one I'm looking for. 

Discarded Movies: 

Strange Invaders 
Communion 
Wavelength 
The Prisoner 
Lifeforce 
Batteries not Included 
Phantasm 
Glitterball 
Solarbabies 
Brainstorm 
They Live 
Amityville 3D 

Any help welcome!

Rob · Accepted Answer

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Starman (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088172/

Its about an alien who visits earth and he has spheres that allow him to do things. The government is chasing him and there is a UFO in it. But I'm sure there isn't a scene with anyone floating in a sphere saying Mommy.

Shadow · Answer

It's not Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977) is it? I mean, it doesn't have Beatrice Straight in it, but it does have UFOs, glowing balls and detectives. And there's also a scene with a little boy in his house who gets lost, regarding the whole child thing in your explanation.

Anonymous · Answer

that's an incredible action picture!! definite, that's massacre at correct intense.. despite the fact that if it replaced into additionally stated as Blackboard massacre. it is not a horror action picture nonetheless truly.. that's a revenge action picture style of a few guy named David in intense college who's alienated by utilising the bullies who truly run the college there... they have some run ins with one yet another.. and then sooner or later, David.. who's a runner, is homestead fixing his automobile from below. and the bullies make his automobile fall on him and it breaks his leg, making him no longer able to run returned. yet while he gets returned from the wellness facility.. he would not tell on them.. so he kills them. that's an awsome action picture... I doubt netflix might have it nonetheless.

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