Steven Spielberg says he is now convinced that alien life has 'visited Earth,' a shift he links directly to recent US whistleblower claims, as he returns to cinemas on 11 June with Disclosure Day, a new film shot in New York and billed as his most reality‑driven take yet on UFOs and extraterrestrial contact.
The director's change of heart comes after almost 50 years of cinematic speculation about alien life. From Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 to E.T. and War of the Worlds, Spielberg has spent a career imagining what might fall from the sky. Until recently, though, he maintained a cautious line in interviews, insisting that without seeing a UFO or UAP with his own eyes he would not 'categorically state that life from out there has come here.' Now, he says, the balance of evidence has tipped.
