Steven Spielberg’s Upcoming Film Has REAL ALIENS, And Our Government Gave Him Permission

Steven Spielberg’s Upcoming Film Has REAL ALIENS, And Our Government Gave Him Permission

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Steven Spielberg’s Upcoming Film Has REAL ALIENS, And Our Government Gave Him Permission

The legendary director’s top-secret UFO film “Disclosure Day” has spawned wild conspiracy theories that actual extraterrestrials appear on screen — and the so-called “evidence” could be more entertaining than the actual movie.

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Sometimes, a movie generates so much hype that fans convince themselves it must contain something truly extraordinary. Sometimes, those fans are absolutely correct. And sometimes, those fans have consumed a concerning amount of Red Bull and conspiracy theory podcasts. Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film “Disclosure Day” has sparked rumors so wild, so elaborate, and so thoroughly entertaining that even if they’re completely false — and spoiler alert, they are — they deserve to be chronicled for posterity. And possibly for psychiatric research.

THE CHOSEN ONE

It all started with billboards. Mysterious billboards appeared in New York and Los Angeles in late 2024, featuring nothing but a bird silhouette, an upside-down human eye, and the ominous tagline: “ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED 06.12.2026.” No studio logo. No cast names. No explanation. Just vibes. Ominous, unsettling, probably-overpriced-advertising-campaign vibes.

The secrecy surrounding Steven Spielberg’s 37th directorial effort — a UFO film starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and Wyatt Russell — had already reached legendary proportions. The production, which filmed across the East Coast during 2024, maintained such airtight confidentiality that cast members refused to discuss even the most basic plot details. Screenwriter David Koepp, who previously collaborated with Spielberg on “Jurassic Park,” “The Lost World,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” was asked by The Hollywood Reporter if the new film takes place in the same cinematic universe as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” His response was essentially “nice try, Woodward.”

This level of secrecy convinced certain corners of the internet that something bigger was happening. Not just a movie. Not just marketing. The disclosure.

Chris Ramsay, a Montreal-based magician with over 7 million YouTube subscribers who also runs a UAP investigation channel called “Area52,” posted what he described as “a conspiracy theory that’s so crazy it just might be brilliant.” Spielberg, Ramsay proposed, had been “chosen to deliver the next phase of disclosure. Not a leak in the traditional sense, but a carefully constructed big reveal.”

But Ramsay didn’t stop there. He asked his followers to imagine watching the opening credits and seeing these words appear on screen: “This film features an actual UFO.”

“It instantly becomes the highest-grossing film of all time,” Ramsay wrote, “and Americans get to serve disclosure while we eat our butter popcorn.”

A production source speaking to Radar Online added fuel to the fire, stating that “there is a belief in certain circles that Spielberg would not make another UFO movie unless there was something fundamentally different about it. The level of secrecy has convinced conspiracy theorists that this goes beyond fiction, and some genuinely think he has been given access to material the public has never seen.”

THE REAGAN CONNECTION

The conspiracy theorists didn’t invent Spielberg’s alleged government connections from thin air. They had a genuinely strange anecdote to work with — one that Spielberg himself confirmed in a 2011 interview with Ain’t It Cool News.

Shortly after “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” was released in 1982, then-President Ronald Reagan hosted a private White House screening. The guest list included the President and First Lady, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during her first week on the bench, and according to Spielberg, “some astronauts — I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain.”

When the film ended, Reagan stood up and addressed the room. According to Spielberg, the President said: “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie.” Then Reagan looked around the room, “almost like he was doing a headcount,” and added: “There are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

“And he said it without smiling,” Spielberg recalled. “But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.”

For believers, this was proof that Reagan had received classified UFO briefings and chose to reveal the truth through plausible deniability — a wink to those in the know while maintaining cover. For skeptics, it was an actor who spent decades in Hollywood delivering a perfectly timed deadpan joke to a room full of entertainment industry professionals. Reagan was, after all, someone who reportedly confused real life with movies he had acted in or merely seen. Reportedly.

THE HYNEK CONNECTION

Further “evidence” of Spielberg’s insider access came from his relationship with J. Allen Hynek, who served as a scientific adviser to the U.S. Air Force on UFOs and coined the phrase “close encounters of the third kind.” Hynek consulted extensively on Spielberg’s 1977 film of the same name and even appeared in a cameo during the finale, playing a pipe-smoking man surveying the alien landing site.

Spielberg later acknowledged that he owed “a lot to [Hynek’s] instilling in me a professional’s point of view on this kind of field reporting. He helped me make the movie more credible than it would have been without his existence.”

Conspiracy theorists interpreted this as Spielberg having direct access to classified government UFO files. Another production source stated: “People who already believe the government is hiding proof of aliens see Spielberg as the perfect messenger. They think his movies have been preparing the public for the ultimate ‘disclosure’ for years.”

THE NEW JERSEY COINCIDENCE

The conspiracy theories intensified when it emerged that “Disclosure Day” was filmed in New Jersey — the same state where, from November to December 2024, hundreds of mysterious drone sightings sparked nationwide panic and speculation about extraterrestrial visitors.

The sightings began on November 13, 2024, when drones were spotted over Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. Army research facility. Over the following weeks, residents reported seeing car-sized drones flying in V-formations, some allegedly spraying “gray mist” across towns. The FBI received over 6,000 tips about drone activity, and at one point, 79 sightings were reported across New Jersey in a single night.

Could this be connected to Spielberg’s production? Was the government using the film shoot as cover for… something? Were actual extraterrestrial craft disguising themselves among the film’s special effects equipment?

The timing seemed too perfect to be coincidental. For believers, anyway.

THE SPIELBERG PROPHECY

Adding another layer to the conspiracy, Spielberg had publicly stated his own theories about UFOs. In a 2023 interview with Stephen Colbert, the director shared what he called “the most optimistic thing I feel about these things we see in the skies.”

“What if they’re not from an advanced civilization 300 million lightyears from here?” Spielberg asked. “What if it’s us, 500,000 years in the future, that is coming back to document the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century because they’re anthropologists? And they know something we don’t quite know yet that has occurred, and they’re trying to track the last hundred years of our history.”

When the “Disclosure Day” trailer finally dropped in December 2025, fans noted that Emily Blunt’s character appears to be overtaken by some kind of alien force during a weather broadcast, her voice transforming into eerie, otherworldly clicks. Josh O’Connor’s character insists that “people have the right to know the truth” and that it “belongs to seven billion people.” There’s heavy Christian iconography, strange animal behavior, and Colin Firth running what appears to be some kind of command center.

Fans theorized that the “aliens” in the film are actually future humans — exactly as Spielberg had suggested to Colbert. Was he telegraphing the film’s plot? Or was he telegraphing something bigger?

Chris Ramsay doubled down on his theory, suggesting the film might even be “another way to control the narrative.” As he ominously noted: “Good luck searching [for] ‘UFO Disclosure’ after this movie hits the theaters.”

OKAY, BUT ACTUALLY

Now let’s take a step back and examine this theory with the critical thinking skills of someone who hasn’t been mainlining conspiracy theories at 3 AM.

The claim is essentially this: Steven Spielberg, a 79-year-old filmmaker, has been selected by a shadowy government cabal to reveal the existence of extraterrestrial life through a summer blockbuster. The U.S. government, after allegedly keeping this secret for decades through multiple administrations, military branches, and intelligence agencies, decided the best way to break the news to humanity was through the director of “The BFG.”

This would require us to believe that thousands of government employees have successfully kept the biggest secret in human history, but also that they’re ready to blow the whole thing wide open via a movie produced by Universal Pictures with a budget that probably includes a line item for craft services catering.

The Reagan story, while genuinely entertaining, comes from a former actor addressing a room full of entertainment professionals. Reagan was famous for his deadpan delivery. This was a man who, according to multiple biographers, regularly confused anecdotes from movies with actual events from his life. He once told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he had personally filmed the liberation of Nazi concentration camps — he had not; he had watched the footage while stateside. Interpreting his E.T. comment as a genuine revelation of classified intelligence is like taking a comedian’s punchline as a confession.

THE DRONE EXPLANATION (IT’S NOT ALIENS)

As for those mysterious New Jersey drones? In January 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the drones “were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones.”

Then, in August 2025, the actual explanation emerged. At the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit in Alabama, an employee of an unnamed private defense contractor reportedly told attendees: “You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us.”

The company had been testing a 20-foot, four-winged aircraft under a government contract. During a live demonstration, witnesses described the craft’s movements as creating an “uncanny valley feeling” — it looked so strange that observers said “it feels like it’s a UFO because it defies what you’re expecting to see.” When the aircraft turned, it practically disappeared from sight, explaining why so many witnesses reported drones that seemed to vanish.

So the connection between the New Jersey drone sightings and Spielberg’s film is that they both happened in New Jersey. Which is a bit like suggesting a connection between any two events that occurred in the same state. By this logic, “The Sopranos” was clearly about real mob activity because it was also set in New Jersey.

THE BUSINESS OF SECRECY

The extreme secrecy around “Disclosure Day” isn’t evidence of government involvement — it’s evidence of modern film marketing. Studios learned decades ago that mystery generates buzz. Christopher Nolan famously keeps his productions secretive. J.J. Abrams built an entire career on mystery boxes. Disney guards Marvel and Star Wars secrets like they contain the nuclear launch codes.

Spielberg’s last several films — including “Ready Player One,” “West Side Story,” and “The Fabelmans” — weren’t particularly secretive because they were adaptations or based on known material. A completely original UFO film provides an opportunity for the kind of marketing campaign that gets people talking. And boy, did it work. We’re literally writing articles about conspiracy theories suggesting the film contains real aliens, which is precisely the kind of free publicity that advertising executives dream about while sleeping on beds made of money.

The title “Disclosure Day” isn’t a coded message to UFO believers — it’s a marketing department recognizing that “disclosure” is a buzzword in the UFO community and exploiting it brilliantly. It’s the same reason the tagline is “All will be disclosed” and not “Coming soon: a Spielberg film about aliens, probably CGI ones.”

SPIELBERG’S ACTUAL VIEWS

In that same 2023 Colbert interview that conspiracy theorists cite as evidence, Spielberg made his actual views quite clear: “I’ve never seen a UFO. I wish I had! I’ve never seen anything I can’t explain.”

He also stated that while he believes “it’s mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos,” he finds it “almost impossible that anybody would visit us from 400 million lightyears from here” without some form of wormhole technology.

His “future humans” theory was presented as personal speculation, not insider knowledge. And when Colbert asked whether hypothetical alien visitors would be more like E.T. or the invaders from “War of the Worlds,” Spielberg immediately answered “E.T.,” explaining that “if any extraterrestrial civilization has journeyed all the way here it’s because of curiosity and science and it’s not about aggression.”

This is a man who has clearly thought a lot about aliens — as one might expect from someone who has made multiple alien films over a 50-year career. That doesn’t make him a government asset. It makes him Steven Spielberg.

THE REAL CONSPIRACY

Here’s the actual conspiracy, and it’s far more mundane than alien disclosure: Universal Pictures would like you to see their expensive summer blockbuster. They have hired talented people to create marketing materials designed to generate discussion. Those marketing materials have successfully generated discussion. Conspiracy theorists have provided millions of dollars worth of free advertising by breathlessly speculating about real aliens in a movie that almost certainly features CGI aliens created by very talented human beings.

The film reunites Spielberg with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński and composer John Williams, who is returning for his 30th collaboration with the director. It’s being produced by Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger at Amblin Entertainment. It will be released on June 12, 2026 — conveniently close to the 50th anniversary of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” which will return to theaters in commemoration… double feature, anyone?

All of this points to a calculated, professional film production designed to be a major summer event. Not a government disclosure operation.

THE BOTTOM LINE

“Disclosure Day” will almost certainly be a well-crafted, entertaining science fiction film from one of cinema’s most accomplished directors. It will feature impressive special effects, strong performances from its A-list cast, and probably some kind of statement about humanity’s place in the universe. It will not feature actual aliens, actual UFOs, or actual government secrets.

The conspiracy theories, however, will likely survive well past the film’s release date. If the movie is ambiguous, believers will claim it contains coded truths. If it’s straightforward, they’ll claim the real disclosure was edited out at the last minute. If it’s a masterpiece, Spielberg’s genius will be attributed to insider knowledge. If it disappoints, well, that’s what “they” wanted.

That’s the thing about conspiracy theories — they’re designed to be unfalsifiable. No matter what happens, believers can find evidence for their beliefs. It’s a closed loop of confirmation bias wrapped in a bow of pattern recognition and tied with a ribbon of really wanting something to be true.

In the meantime, the rest of us can simply look forward to a Steven Spielberg UFO movie starring Emily Blunt, with a score by John Williams, arriving in theaters next summer. That’s exciting enough without needing actual aliens to be involved.

Though if there are real aliens in it, I will absolutely write a retraction. With apologies. And probably some mild panic.

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NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

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