Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Disclosure Day, the legendary filmmaker’s upcoming UFO-themed project and his first feature since 2022’s The Fabelmans. The film marks Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrial storytelling nearly two decades after War of the Worlds and almost half a century after Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Now 78, Spielberg once again explores humanity’s place in the universe, though the teaser carefully avoids showing any aliens or spacecraft. Instead, the trailer leans into atmosphere and philosophical questions, with characters discussing truth, faith and the vastness of the cosmos. In one moment, Josh O’Connor’s character declares that the truth belongs to all seven billion people on Earth, while another voice asks why such a massive universe would exist if humanity were alone.
Disclosure Day has been kept unusually secretive for a Spielberg production. Filming took place largely in and around New Jersey, and early marketing was limited to cryptic billboards in New York and Los Angeles reading, “All will be disclosed.” The trailer is debuting exclusively ahead of screenings of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which opens this week.
The film features a high-profile cast that includes Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell and Eve Hewson. It also reunites Spielberg with screenwriter David Koepp, who previously collaborated with the director on Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds. When asked whether Disclosure Day exists within the same cinematic universe as Close Encounters, Koepp declined to give a direct answer, fueling further speculation.
The project has already sparked discussion online, particularly among UFO enthusiasts who have long viewed Spielberg’s films as subtly shaping public perceptions of extraterrestrial life. The timing of the film has added to that conversation, arriving amid renewed public interest following U.S. congressional hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the recent documentary The Age of Disclosure, which features former and current officials claiming unexplained objects have violated American airspace.
Spielberg himself has never hidden his belief that humanity is not alone. In past interviews, he has said it is mathematically unlikely that Earth hosts the only intelligent life in the universe, a perspective that continues to inform his storytelling decades into his career.
Disclosure Day is scheduled to be released in theaters on June 12, 2026.