Disclosure Day: Steven Spielberg Tackles Roswell UFO Crash in Official Trailer (WATCH)
Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg's UFO thriller about humanity finally learning the truth about life beyond Earth, arrives in theaters June 12.
No discussion of UFO lore is complete without a mention of the supposed alien vessel that crashed on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947.
Was it a fallen weather balloon as the government claimed, or was it proof of life beyond this planet? Director Steven Spielberg, is opting for the second interpretation in the official trailer for his new extra-terrestrial thriller, Disclosure Day (in theaters June 12).
"This 79-year terror campaign of lies has to end!" exclaims a character played by Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), most likely referring to the alleged cover-up by Truman's post-World War II administration, in the March 12 preview. This moment is intercut black and white footage of the military recovering the mysterious object in the desert.
Decades later, a Snowden-like government employee named Daniel Kellner (Wake Up Dead Man's Josh O’Connor) sets out to disclose sensitive information regarding extra-terrestrial life to the entire human population. A meteorologist (Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt) is drawn into the thick of things when the aliens appear to speak through her during a live news broadcast seen 'round the world.
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Eve Hewson (The Perfect Couple) co-star.
Watch the official trailer for Steven Spielberg UFO movie, Disclosure Day
Based on all the footage we've seen thus far, it looks like the cosmic visitors fly good old-fashioned saucers, really do create crop circles, cause animals to act in strange ways, and possess technology that allows a person to project their form over great distances. Firth's character uses the latter projection apparatus (presumably reverse engineered from the Roswell debris) to speak with Hewson's character in the trailer.
Spielberg came up with the story for Disclosure Day, whose screenplay was written by the filmmaker's longtime creative collaborator, David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
"What he does so brilliantly is he combines a vast spectacle with really honest human emotion—unlike, I think, any other director. It's a very emotional experience, this movie," Koepp told Deadline in June 2025. "[Steven] wrote it up in a treatment, 40 or 50 pages, said, 'Read this and tell me what you think.' So I did and I said, 'I think it's great. I would do this and move that.' Then we started the process. So he came up and wrote the whole story, and I wrote the script. But he was constantly involved in the script, changing lines and things [like that]. He was the most involved on this as he's been on any movie I've written for him to direct."
The film marks the director's first overtly genre film since Ready Player One (2018) and his fifth contact with aliens after Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), War of the Worlds (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). One might also include his 1964 sci-fi feature Firelight, which famously made a $1 box office profit against a $500 budget.
Spielberg serves as producer with Kristie Macosko Krieger. Adam Somner and Chris Brigham are executive producers.
Disclosure Day is in theaters June 12. Tickets are not yet on sale.
