Steven Spielberg Laughs Off Conspiracy Theories About His New Film Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg has dismissed online conspiracy theories suggesting that his new film, Disclosure Day, was made to ready people for proof of alien life.

The new movie follows a group of whistleblowers eager to expose decades of government cover-ups about extraterrestrial life.

Speaking to Metro on the red carpet at the London premiere of his new blockbuster, Spielberg shut down suggestions that the movie was created to prepare audiences for hard evidence that extra-terrestrial life is out there.

“Well, I’m not suggesting I know anything!” he remarked when asked about the conspiracies.

The Oscar winner added that he didn’t make his movie “to condition people for the possibility of disclosure”, but admitted there are connections between his film and the real-life release of paperwork regarding supposed UFO sightings in the USA.

“I made the movie based on what I could simply gather by all the documentaries that have been made on the subject of UFOs, now called UAPs, on people who are reporting this from the intelligence community in Washington DC,” the Close Encounters Of The Third Kind filmmaker added.

Although Disclosure Day is about interplanetary life forms, it also follows themes of whistleblowing and government secrets.

“There’ve been whistleblowers, Air Force pilots, Navy pilots… There’s been so much disclosure just in the last six years, all the way back from the New York Times article on the front page in 2017, where the tic tac was popular,” he told the Metro, referring to the sighting in 2004 of a 40-foot-long, oval-shaped UFO.

beFOSpielberg expanded on what inspired him to make Disclosure Day to Entertainment Weekly, as well as his own conspiracy theories about extraterrestrial life. 

“I really don’t believe that governments can keep secrets,” he said. “But big tech companies can. 

“And there are contracting companies that I believe hold all the knowledge and have the archives, not governments.”

The director was directly inspired by the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s 2023 hearings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) sightings.

“We took a lot of language out of those hearings and put them in dialogue. The people who were speaking under oath were really credible,” he told the outlet.

While Steven rejected the notion that he was preparing audiences for an invasion, screenwriter David Koepp has said that his research creating Disclosure Day had changed his mind about the government hiding evidence of life beyond Earth.

“I know for a fact now, from everything I’ve read and the research I did and the people I talked to, that the government’s been lying for 79 years about things that have happened,” he told Metro, adding that he now believes the government are “concealing” and “suppressing” things.

Disclosure Day is released in cinemas today.