Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is making some wonder: will we have real disclosure soon?

‘Could the extraterrestrials really be here, sequestered in Nevada’s notorious Area 51 or some other clandestine locale?’ Photograph: Amy Katz/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Even before Stephen Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, began unspooling at local multiplexes, the internet was debating whether we would ever experience a real-life disclosure day – when the US government admits that it’s aware of aliens here on Earth, a secret it has supposedly kept since the 1940s.

That would be dramatic news. But don’t hold your breath.