Steven Spielberg’s totally made-up shocking revelations

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Spoilers below for the hit new movie Disclosure Day.

Space aliens kidnapped children to perform experiments on them. Now the children, played by Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, are grown up and starting to display powers.

An Agency Far, Far More Secret Than the CIA -- surely the formal name -- is covering up the existence of crashed UFOs. Sinister operatives captured a space alien and are torturing him, demanding information that can be used to build weapons. The Agency Far, Far More Secret Than the CIA reverse-engineered a limitless zero-point clean energy source from the stardrive of a recovered flying saucer, but is hiding this technology at the behest of oil companies.

A space alien communicates telepathically with the Blunt and O’Connor characters, telling them the time has come to inform humanity Homo sapiens is not alone in the universe.

The film concludes with Blunt, holding some glowing alien gizmo, beginning to speak to a broadcast going out to the entire world. That is, Disclosure Day ends on Disclosure Day.

Benign space aliens, evil government conspiracies, trusting children, telepathic messages, ridiculous chase scenes – all the hallmarks of Steven Spielberg sci-fi.

The title sounds a lot like the 2025 semi-documentary The Age of Disclosure, which also is about cover-ups of government contact with space aliens. Spielberg had nothing to do with the 2025 flick. Both movies share the word “disclosure” because space-alien true believers call themselves the Disclosure Movement.

Disclosure Day is pure entertainment, completely and unapologetically made-up. It’s part of the fun of Hollywood that a big-budget film pretending to reveal the shocking truth is completely made up.

By contrast The Age of Disclosure presents as factual. Scientists and former intelligence agency officials are interviewed and identified. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anna Paulina Luna, the younger George Bush are shown in clips edited to make them seem UFO true believers.

More on The Age of Disclosure below. In an admirable act of restraint, I am not using the above paragraph as pretext to post a bikini picture of Rep. Luna.

The galaxy is so enormous – probably millions of Earthlike worlds – that other intelligent life seems likely. Though, travel across light years appears so daunting, we may never meet a visitor from another planet.

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In Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt visits a convent, where a nun who believes UFOs are real says, “Why would God create such a vast universe and put only us in it?” Nice to see a big-budget Hollywood production raise a theological question, even if this Serious Moment is employed to counterbalance yet another chase scene.

Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day. Photo courtesy New York Times.

Some evangelical Christians object to the idea that space aliens exist – objecting on the grounds this would mean humanity is not the center of God’s creation. But couldn’t an infinite Maker have infinite love for all thinking beings?

Finding out more along these lines is one of the promises of alien contact, which might happen via radio, optical laser or other communications means that may exist.

From two years ago your writer on the chances of other intelligent life. Whether reports of UFO sightings should be believed is looked at it in this All Predictions Wrong three years ago.

If humanity ever does contact another world, I’d want to ask – “Do you believe in a divine creator?”

The answer might be, “That’s just superstition.” Support for organized religion might fade. Suppose instead the answer were, “Yes, and we believe in a Redeemer who died and came back to life on the third day.”

We could ask aliens whether they believe in demons. Vice President J.D. Vance says he thinks what appear in the sky as unidentified aerial phenomenon – the official term – actually are demons manifesting. Perhaps Vance’s new steak-and-sauerkraut diet is getting to him.

Last week as the Spielberg movie was dropping, the New York Times ran this daffy headline: PRIEST WHO SAID ALIENS WERE DEMONS REMOVED AS EXORCIST.

Proof of other civilizations, or contact with space aliens, might have many impacts on society – imagine the IPO for a zero-point energy startup – or might be ignored. Many people would shrug and say, “What does this have to do with me?”

Distant quasars emit trillions of times more energy than our sun. That’s interesting to know, but people shrug and say, “What does this have to do with me?” Revelations of life on distant worlds might draw a similar reaction.

All this assumes, to cite Spielberg flicks, that aliens want peaceful cultural exchange (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977) or are just engaged in botany research (ET the Extraterrestrial, 1982) or, in the new movie, seek to assist our advancement.