Disclosure Day, Spielberg and Close Encounters
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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.
“Disclosure” has become a cult word. It shouldn't be, since all it means, technically, is to reveal something. But the new wave of alien conspiracy theorists have made “disclosure” into a teasingly passive-aggressive code word.
Steven Spielberg 's 1977 UFO epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of the most influential and beloved sci-fi movies of all time. Its presence is still felt today — not least in Spielberg's new film Disclosure Day.
We're disclosing what Steven Spielberg, Demi Lovato, Tom Cruise and more celebrities have said about the possibility that the people of Earth aren't alone in this universe.
