Steven Spielberg just said out loud what many in the UFO community have believed for years. Speaking at South by Southwest 2026, the director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind told a packed audience, “I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg confirmed that real UAP events — including the 2017 New York Times Pentagon investigation and the 2023 congressional hearings featuring whistleblowers David Grusch and Ryan Graves — directly shaped his upcoming film Disclosure Day.
What makes this more than a movie moment is the detail Spielberg chose to use. Not evidence. Not sightings. Interaction — ongoing, for decades.
NASA sent him a 20-page letter warning that Close Encounters of the Third Kind was dangerous. He worked directly with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Project Blue Book astronomer who coined the term close encounters.
And now, nearly 50 years later, he is back with a film rooted in Roswell, congressional records, and whistleblower accounts. Disclosure Day opens June 12th, 2026. Some will call it fiction but according to some the sourcing tells a different story.
