Overview
- Speaking at a SXSW Film & TV Festival keynote on March 13, Steven Spielberg said he has a “very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now.”
- Spielberg noted he has never had a personal close encounter, even as he joked that many of his friends report seeing UFOs or UAPs.
- Disclosure Day draws from Spielberg’s original idea, is written by longtime collaborator David Koepp, and stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.
- Spielberg welcomed recent viral attention from Barack Obama’s comment about extraterrestrial life, which Obama later clarified as a statistical likelihood rather than confirmation.
- The cultural conversation has intensified with a trailer suggesting secrecy and public upheaval, as separate talk of government UFO files under President Trump has not yielded new disclosures.