Steven Spielberg‘s top secret UFO movie now has a trailer.
Universal has revealed a first look at Disclosure Day (below), the iconic director’s first new movie since 2022’s The Fabelmans.
Disclosure returns the 78-year-old Oscar winner to the UFO genre, which he first helped bring into the modern era with 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and continued with 1982’s E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and 2005’s War of the Worlds.
The film, which was shot in and around New Jersey, has been kept far more under wraps than most Spielberg projects. The film’s marketing effort kicked off with billboards in New York and Los Angeles with the tagline “all will be disclosed.” The new trailer is being launched in front of screenings of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which opens this week.
“People have a right to know the truth, it belongs to 7 billion people,” Josh O’Connor’s character says in the teaser trailer (which, fair warning, doesn’t actually show aliens or UFOs, but hints towards them in all sorts of ways). While another character intones: “Why would [God] make such a vast universe, but save it only for us?”
Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt, O’Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell and Eve Hewson. The project also reunites the filmmaker with screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds). During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, we asked Koepp if the new film takes place in the same cinematic universe as the events in Close Encounters, to which he replied, “Like I’m going to answer that. Sorry Woodward! You’re trying to trick me into confirming something that I don’t want to confirm.”
The film’s announcement has kicked up conspiracy theories online, especially given that Spielberg’s works have long been seen by some in the UFO believer community as evidence that humanity is being gradually (very gradually, it seems) prepared for the U.S. government to disclose secrets about alien life.
Spielberg himself has long I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe,” the director has said. “I think it’s mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos.”
The film’s subject matter is also very much in the current zeitgeist. Disclosure Day comes on the heels of a series of congressional hearings on UAPs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and a buzzy (and similarly titled) documentary, The Age of Disclosure, which features current and former government officials claiming that U.S. airspace is repeatedly being violated by mysterious craft that can maneuver in inexplicable ways.
Disclosure Day will be released in theaters June 12, 2026.
