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The &34;Disclosure Day&34; filmmaker does think he should be &34;afforded the opportunity&34; to see a UFO, given &34;all the movies I made about nonhuman civilizations coming to Earth.&34; Why Steven Spielberg says he 'would not be the right person' to make first contact with aliens The &34;Disclosure Day&34; filmmaker does think he should be &34;afforded the opportunity&34; to see a UFO, given &34;all the movies I made about nonhuman civilizations coming to Earth.&34; By Wesley Stenzel :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/WesleyStenzelauthorphoto32b61793a2784639af623f2ae091477e.
The "Disclosure Day" filmmaker does think he should be "afforded the opportunity" to see a UFO, given "all the movies I made about non-human civilizations coming to Earth."
Why Steven Spielberg says he 'would not be the right person' to make first contact with aliens
The "Disclosure Day" filmmaker does think he should be "afforded the opportunity" to see a UFO, given "all the movies I made about non-human civilizations coming to Earth."
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E.T. and Steven Spielberg on the set of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'. Credit:
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- Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens.
- The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life *Disclosure Day*.
- He also says that he should be "afforded the opportunity" to witness a UFO or UAP after making so many alien movies.
Steven Spielberg thinks he deserves to see an alien — but he doesn't want to be an ambassador for all mankind.
The *Jaws* filmmaker shares his attitude toward the idea of meeting aliens in an interview with **.
"I would not be the right person to be the first person to interact with the off-world species," Spielberg says. "I think it's much, much more complicated than that."
The *Raiders of the Lost Ark* director's latest film, *Disclosure Day*, revolves around whistleblowers who attempt to expose the decades-long history of aliens interacting with humankind. Spielberg thinks that an actual disclosure day — that is, a day in which the alleged secret-keepers declassify all human knowledge about extraterrestrial life — would be a great step forward for our species.
"Just knowing someday that that could be an opportunity for all of us to see something like *Disclosure Day* actually happening in the world — that would be the day I would really look forward to," he says.
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Steven Spielberg in New York City on June 8, 2026.
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*Disclosure Day* is far from Spielberg's first project that grapples with the existence of alien life. He previously depicted benevolent non-human space travelers in 1977's *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* and 1982's *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*, and also explored the idea of violent alien invaders in 2005's *War of the Worlds*. (2008's *Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull* also featured UFO imagery, but the fellas driving the flying saucers were technically explained as "inter-dimensional beings" and not visitors from outer space.)
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Spielberg thinks that his robust history with alien characters should at least give him a glimpse of *something* signifying aliens' actual existence. "I'm not asking to see aliens in real life," he says. "I'm saying with all the movies I made about non-human civilizations coming to Earth, I should be afforded the opportunity just to see one Tic Tac. I mean, just a Tic Tac would be fine by now!"
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Emily Blunt, Steven Spielberg, and Wyatt Russell on the set of 'Disclosure Day'.
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The filmmaker's invocation of a Tic Tac is a reference to a mysterious unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets encountered in a 2004 incident that was publicized in a bombshell 2017 *New York Times* article about the government's research into alien phenomena.
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"It was probably the best footage anyone had ever seen of a UAP," Spielberg explains during a separate interview for EW's *Disclosure Day* cover story. "And suddenly things started to happen quite quickly. It took a number of years until the House Intelligence Committee held hearings on UAPs in 2023, where witnesses testified under oath before a bipartisan congressional committee and the American public, which was the second wave of disclosure."
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