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We don’t know much about Steven Spielberg’s new UFO saga,”Disclosure Day“, but the studio just opened its tightly sealed lid to reveal some plot bits with Friday’s release of a melodramatic new trailer.
Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment are very coy about showing or explaining too much about their sci-fi conspiracy thriller starring Emily Blunt (“Edge of Tomorrow,” “A Quiet Place”), Josh O’Connor (“Challengers,” “The Crown”) and Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech,” “The Kingsman” movies). The tentpole summer flick also stars Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell and Eve Hewson.
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that scare you?” Universal offered in the enigmatic synopsis delivered last December. “This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are approaching … ‘Disclosure Day’.”
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From the additional footage revealed in this latest preview, O’Connor’s UFO whistleblower character, Daniel Kellner, was a cybersecurity administrator for a high-tech company called Wardex. He is the custodian of some incriminating data stolen from his former employer, which appears to be the same shadowy organization led by Colin Firth’s sinister executive that uses remote presence, and Kellner wants to share it globally.
The other big reveal here is that when Emily Blunt’s Kansas City meteorologist starts speaking a clicky alien dialect while living on air, Kellner admits to his girlfriend, Jane (Eve Hewson), that he can understand the language being spoken.
We now know that all of this leads back to the 1947 Roswell incident revealed by Domingo’s character, who angrily exclaims that “This 79-year campaign of terror of lies must end!” We also see a black and white photo of a board dated July 7, 1947, with information about Roswell, NM, and #5 Occupant that marks the theme of what the government filmed on that historic day, covered up for decades.
With a myriad of mysteries still to be dissected, it’s important to remember that the trailer doesn’t show sequential events, so it’s easy to get tripped up in the timeline presented.
Is Emily Blunt the young girl visited in her bedroom by the freaky moose and the cardinal? Is she a hybrid? Are there any actual aliens here as we understand them? Why is Colin Firth using remote viewing technology and who is the real villain? When does this movie actually take place? And is this Hollywood production meant to act as a soft reveal to the world?
But the biggest question we have is: Is this a stealth sequel to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? Spielberg is no stranger to UFO stories, and none of them have connected until now, but we’re getting some serious “Close Encounters” vibes from this one.
There are no direct references, but much of the visuals and theme feel the same: a mysterious alien force communicating with humanity in an unconventional way, the glowing UFOs, and, of course, the shady government agency trying to cover it all up. There are more questions than answers at this point, so until more official plot details are revealed, we’re all groping in the dark.
Based on an original story by Spielberg and a script written by longtime collaborator David Koepp (“Jurassic Park: The Lost World,” “War of the Worlds”), “Disclosure Day” lands in theaters on June 12, 2026.
