If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. Today is … Disclosure Day. Directed by Steven Spielberg, DISCLOSURE DAY opens in theaters on June 12.
To play meteorologist Margaret Fairchild, Spielberg turned to Emily Blunt, star of the blockbuster horror franchise A Quiet Place and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for Christopher Nolan’s 2022 epic Oppenheimer.
In the film, while not a sequel to Close Encounters (sorry, Internet), DISCLOSURE DAY harkens back to it with a story that deals with a specific, recurring theme in the cultural lore of “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (or UAPs, the preferred new century term for UFOs): efforts by the government to conceal the truth about it or discourage interest in it.
But just last week, “The Department of War released the second tranche of records under PURSUE. The first tranche was released on May 8, 2026. The second tranche, released on May 22, 2026.” https://www.war.gov/UFO/ Check out the amazing videos and decide for yourself.
As audiences get closer to the opening of the movie, Universal Pictures dropped today a featurette with Blunt’s take on the film.
Blunt was immediately drawn to Margaret’s personality and her grounded heroism. “Margaret is someone who just leaps off the page,” Blunt says. “No pun intended, but she is the full weather system of a character, who experiences a full weather system of life. She’s unpredictable—and she is in a situation where she is way over her head. Those are my kind of heroes, ordinary yet interesting people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, struggling to keep their head above water as they search for answers that provide a way out of their predicament. She just felt so human and relatable and surprising; she is just not someone you would expect to be able to do what she does in the film, but you can also believe she is capable of rising to the moment before her.”
What moved Blunt the most while making Disclosure Day was collaborating with Spielberg on a movie steeped in his signature values and ideals. “I think Steven walks into every day with great hope,” Blunt says. “He has faith in humanity and in our shared destiny and it is all infused into every movie he makes. His constant encouragement to keep looking up, in the many ways that can mean, is very poignant. I think if we could all possess his hopefulness and expansiveness there would be huge rewards for everyone and for our world.”
