Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has a new trailer, and it shows numerous connections to UFO lore – and possibly Close Encounters Of The Third Kind…
Steven Spielberg is set to bring his career full circle with his latest summer event film, Disclosure Day. Although early promotion played coy with the details, it’s clearly a return to the UFO lore of Spielberg’s earliest work – his 1964 sci-fi piece, Firelight, which now sadly exists only in fragments.
Starring Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson and Colin Firth, Disclosure Day deals with the conspiracy theory that government agencies are hiding the truth about alien intelligence – and that we might soon learn that we aren’t alone in the universe.
The latest trailer (see below) confirms our earlier theory that Spielberg’s film has connections to the Roswell incident – the modern legend that a UFO full of aliens crashed in New Mexico 79 years ago, and the whole thing was hushed up. The new Disclosure Day promo includes glimpses of 8mm footage (pretend, of course…) from that incident, seemingly showing a flying saucer on its side.
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The clapper board also has the words ‘#5 Occupant’ scribbled on it – suggesting that, in the universe of the film, the military did indeed grab a live alien specimen back in 1947.
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There are other bits of paranormal goings-on ripped straight out of the Fortean Times. Using what we’re guessing is some sort of alien technology, Colin Firth’s villain (an agent at a shadowy firm called Wardex) is capable of projecting his body into other places.
There’s also hints of mind control, shape-shifting, that clicking alien language seen in previous trailers, and the odd crop circle here and there. We also have a feeling that alien abduction plays into the scenario, and that the sequences of the kid walking towards an uncanny-looking house are flashbacks to Emily Blunt’s character’s childhood. From her youthful perspective, boarding an alien spacecraft looks like something out of a Disney film. Hey, it’s just a theory.
The most significant tease, though, is that late shot of a fiery UFO emerging from the clouds.
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It looks uncannily like a similar shot from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Spielberg’s other classic film about flying saucer legends. There have already been theories that Disclosure Day might be a stealth sequel to Close Encounters, or at least tie into the same world.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Credit: Sony Pictures.
The shot of the fire in the sky could add weight to that theory – or it could just be a veteran filmmaker playfully referencing his own work.
We’ll only know for sure when Disclosure Day emerges in cinemas on the 12th June 2026.