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"Disclosure Day" director Steven Spielberg thinks we're not alone in the universe. He's not the only one.

21 celebrities who believe aliens are real — including those who claim to have seen a UFO

"Disclosure Day" director Steven Spielberg thinks we're not alone in the universe. He's not the only one.

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June 8, 2026 4:00 p.m. ET

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If you think we're not alone in the universe, you're not the only one.

And neither is Steven Spielberg. The legendary director has now made *four* films about aliens, including the new sci-fi drama *Disclosure Day*, so he's something of an expert on whether the truth is out there. But he's just one of dozens of celebrities who have openly discussed their belief in extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena. Some of them, like Goldie Hawn, even claim to have had a firsthand encounter with aliens.

Here's a rundown of 21 celebrities who believe aliens are real, and what they've said about our extraterrestrial neighbors.

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg promoting 'Disclosure Day'.

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Of course we have to start with Spielberg, the director of *Close Encounters of the Third Kind *(1977), *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial* (1982), *War of the Worlds* (2005), and this year's *Disclosure Day*.

"It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," the director told the *Associated Press* about his latest film. "It’s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak."

Not only does Spielberg believe in aliens, he also told Stephen Colbert that he wants to be the first to greet them if and when they arrive — even though Barack Obama already called dibs.

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg at the Tribeca Festival in 2026.

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It's one of the precious few certainties in life that Whoopi Goldberg will always give us something to talk about on *The View*, from taking set-cleaning duties into her own hands to getting candid about her career. One subject that's come up a few times: Goldberg's belief in aliens.

During a 2024 episode, guest Kumail Nanjiani said he believes aliens are out there, prompting Goldberg to chime in with her own take. "They're already here," she said. "They're already... They've been here for quite some time."

"And what are they doing?" Nanjiani asked. "They're watching us," replied Goldberg, as if it were a matter of fact.

Tom DeLonge performing on stage in 2023.

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No list of celebrities who believe in aliens would be complete without Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, who has dedicated much of his adult life to proving it. He even founded a company, To the Stars, which promotes UAPs (i.e., UFOs) and fringe science.

In 2023, after the House Oversight subcommittee on national security hosted hearings on UAPs with testimony from witnesses and whistleblowers, DeLonge took to Instagram to celebrate. "The UFO Hearings today made history," he wrote. "I am so proud of the three witnesses today that blew the lid off the UFO secrecy that has been intact for decades."

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson at the Cannes Film Festival in 2026.

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Woody Harrelson doesn't just think aliens exist — he might've seen them in real life. During a 2025 appearance on *The Late Show*, Harrelson opened up to Stephen Colbert about a close encounter he had in 1974.

The event happened when Harrelson was a teenager living in Ohio. "Suddenly I noticed, like everybody's out in the street, and so I went out, and we look up. It was nighttime and there were these lights that were just kind of blinking, and then it would just shoot all the way across the sky," he recalled. "And then there'd be one over there, shoot over here, and there were several. They just kept going across the sky."

He continued, "Everybody, we watched it for a while. It took a few minutes and then finally just, whoosh, went somewhere else. Some other world."

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and Wyatt Russell

Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, and Wyatt Russell in 2015.

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Goldie Hawn also had a close encounter in her younger days. As she recalled in 2023, it happened while she was sleeping in a friend's car after a dance rehearsal in California. "I saw these two or three triangular-shaped heads. They were silver in color, slash for a mouth, tiny little nose, no ears," she said. "They were pointing at me, pointing at me in the car as if they were discussing me, like I was a subject."

Hawn's longtime partner Kurt Russell had his own sighting, which he recounted to Jimmy Kimmel in 2018. Russell, who has a pilot's license, was flying his son Oliver to Phoenix when he saw what he believed to be a UAP.

"There's this bank of lights, six lights in the shape of a triangle... right over the airport," said Russell, who ultimately decided not to report the sighting. "Years later, I come home and Goldie's watching this show on UFOs, and the most reported one of all time was in Phoenix, and I said, 'Wait a minute, that's the night Ollie and I were landing in Phoenix.'"

Hawn and Russell's son, fellow actor Wyatt Russell, is also a firm believer. During his own *Jimmy Kimmel Live* appearance in 2023, the younger Russell backed up his mom's claims. "It’s true!" he said before sharing his own story of seeing a UAP in Canada.

We're still waiting for Hawn's other famous offspring, Kate Hudson, to weigh in.

Ana Gasteyer

Ana Gasteyer posing at the Groundlings' 50th anniversary event in 2024.

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"I do believe in extra-terrestrial life, I think it’s sort of absurd to think that there wouldn’t be any," former *Saturday Night Live* star Ana Gasteyer told ** in 2016 while promoting the short-lived sci-fi sitcom *People of Earth*.

"I mean, it’s kind of a big universe, right?" she continued. "I’m not sure that there are like, green people that want to take over the world or anything like that. But there’s definitely something, like a vibrating cube or something on another planet. It seems naïve to think that we’re the only intelligent life in the universe."

Demi Lovato at 92NY in 2026.

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Demi Lovato has many titles: singer, actor, activist, and UFO believer. Lovato even leveraged her stardom to produce a four-part series on the subject, *Unidentified*.

Speaking with EW in 2021, Lovato explained the genesis of her interest in extraterrestrial life. "I had a pretty profound experience on my 28th birthday," Lovato said. "I made [alien] contact, and it was a pretty mind-blowing experience."

As for what the aliens are up to, Lovato explained, "I think they're very caring, very intelligent beings that are just looking out for the best interest of our planet, because we need some help."

Dave Foley in New York City in 2025.

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*Kids in the Hall* comedian Dave Foley has long been fascinated by aliens and UFOs, but he didn't have an encounter of his own until 2022. "After years of interest in the UFOs without ever seeing anything, I saw something," Foley wrote on social media, accompanied by a drawing of what he saw.

"It moved silently, at great speed, hovered and pulsated with light," Foley continued. "I should point out, the white lights were on the front of the craft, assuming that it was moving forward and those lights pulsated separately from the body of the craft, which also pulsated."

When asked if he was fooling around, Foley said, "Absolutely not a bit," and explained that "Many people who have encountered the phenomenon are afraid to discuss it because of the thoughtless and uninformed derision it inspires. Many who do discuss it have had their lives ruined by that derision."

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Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025.

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Jordan Peele looked to the skies for his third film, the 2022 sci-fi thriller *Nope*. Though based on an original idea, the California desert setting and sense of awe and spectacle recall Spielberg's *Close Encounters of the Third Kind*. When asked if he's similarly adopted Spielberg's perspective on aliens, Peele unequivocally told EW, "I believe there are aliens out there."

Peele expanded on his take during an appearance on *Late Night with Seth Meyers*, telling the host that he likes to think he'd be the one human spared in a takeover of Earth. "Sometimes I think if aliens came down, I would turn on all of y'all, like, in a heartbeat," said Peele. "I feel like there might be room for one prime human." He'll have to jockey for that position with Spielberg and Obama.

Megan Fox in Las Vegas in 2024.

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Megan Fox doesn't just believe in aliens — she believes in "everything." As the *Jennifer's Body* star told *MTV News*' Josh Horowitz in 2014, that includes Bigfoot, ghosts, and extraterrestrials. When pressed about the lack of concrete evidence of alien encounters, Fox asked, "If they are a more advanced species, why would we be able to find them if they don't want to be found?"

"It just seems like a convenient excuse," said a skeptical Horowitz, to which Fox made a fair point: "But until we find things, they had been previously unfound, yet they still exist." Much to consider.

Tom Cruise at the Saturn Awards in 2026.

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The alien discussion in Hollywood always comes back to Spielberg. In 2005, while promoting the director's adaptation of *War of the Worlds*, Tom Cruise said that "of course" he believes in aliens.

"Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?" Cruise responded when posed the question by a German publication. "Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know."

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves in Los Angeles in 2026.

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Just a few years later, Keanu Reeves was promoting his own modern remake of a sci-fi classic, *The Day the Earth Stood Still* (2008), prompting multiple interviewers to ask the actor for his take on intelligent life in the universe. "We can't be alone," Reeves told NBC. "The cosmos is too vast."

"There’s so much unexplained and unexplainable phenomena that’s presented to us," Reeves said in an interview with *Parade*, adding, "We can’t be the only sentient entity. It might not look like us, but it’s going to be out there."

Jaden Smith at Paris Fashion Week in 2026.

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When it comes to aliens, Jaden Smith agrees with his* Day the Earth Stood Still* costar. He even asked a former president about them. "I talked to President Obama about extraterrestrials," Smith told *Wonderland* magazine. "He said he could neither confirm nor deny the existence of aliens, which means they’re real. If people think we’re the only people that live in this universe, then something is wrong with them."

Miley Cyrus at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2026.

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Speaking with fashion designer Rick Owens for *Interview Magazine*, Miley Cyrus detailed a strange experience that was hard to explain. “I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of UFO," the "Flowers" singer said.

“But the best way to describe it is a flying snowplow,” she continued. “It had this big plow in the front of it and was glowing yellow. I did see it flying, and my friend saw it, too. There were a couple of other cars on the road and they also stopped to look, so I think what I saw was real.”

However, Cyrus admitted she’d “bought weed wax from a guy in a van in front of a taco shop, so it could have been the weed wax.” Still, the experience profoundly affected her. “I was shaken for, like, five days. It f---ed me up,” she said. “I couldn’t really look at the sky the same. I thought they might come back.”

Halle Berry during a SiriusXM interview in 2026.

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Halle Berry starred in two seasons of the CBS sci-fi drama *Extant*, produced by Spielberg and his Amblin Television team. The short-lived series follows Berry’s astronaut Molly Woods, who returns to Earth after a 13-month solo mission to discover that she has somehow gotten pregnant.

At a premiere screening for the show in June 2014, Berry told the *Los Angeles Times* that she does believe there’s something else out there. “I’m not so egotistical to think that we’re the only ones living in this vast, vast universe,” Berry said candidly. “I do think there’s other life out there.”

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson at a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in 2026.

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Roughly 10 years ago, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson admitted that he believes in the existence of extraterrestrials.

In a 2016 *Vice* interview with Johnson and costar Kevin Hart for their movie *Central Intelligence*, Johnson was asked if he believes in any conspiracy theories. He answered first by wondering “how we would qualify aliens.”

Probed on whether he does believe in aliens, Johnson responded plainly, “Yeah, of course. I believe that we’re not the only ones; it’d be arrogant to think that.”

Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2026.

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In April, country singer Kacey Musgraves went on record as having seen not one, not two, but *three* UFOs during a flight to Fort Worth.

The “Follow Your Arrow” singer shared in an Instagram video that she and her manager witnessed three spherical aircrafts during their flight.

"We just had the craziest f---ing orb UFO experience," the singer said. "We just watched these orbs, there was three of 'em. I noticed them — I'm a noticer, I'm always noticing things. I was about to lay down and take a nap, and I saw these lights that caught my eye and just didn't look normal. And I watched them for a minute, and they definitely were trailing each other."

She first noticed them while flying over Little Rock, Ark., and she watched them for about 45 minutes.

However, this wasn’t the first time that the singer encountered UFOs. In 2015, she told *Us Weekly* that she’s seen "several."

Dan Aykroyd in Toronto in 2025.

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We also can't possibly ignore Dan Aykroyd, who's transitioned from ghostbusting to alien-spotting.

The *SNL* alum has had a long-standing fascination with ghosts and aliens, once claiming to Larry King that he’s seen four UFOs. In 2005, he hosted the documentary *Dan Aykroyd Unplugged* *on UFOs*, and for three seasons, he's served as the host of the History Channel show *The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd*.

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In 2024, Aykroyd told the *New York Post* that a love affair with nature’s oddities runs in his family: “My great-grandfather was a spiritualist, a paranormal researcher. And so, I just grew up with that stuff. And my mother saw a UFO in the late ’40s in Ottawa, Canada… And she was always interested in it.”

January Jones

January Jones at the Academy Museum in 2026.

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In a 2020 interview on *Jimmy Kimmel Live*, January Jones revealed that she believes the truth is out there — because she’s seen it for herself.

The *Mad Men* star told Kimmel that when she was in her 20s in Iowa, she was in a field when she saw a strange light in the sky zoom around and then disappear. Jones was alone when she spotted the strange phenomenon, but she claimed her companion believed her when she told him about it. “But people say things all the time,” she admitted to Kimmel.

When Kimmel asked Jones if she believes in paranormal things in general, she responded, laughing, “I’m into everything. Unsolved things… I don’t care if anyone else knows, I just need to know.”

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