Spielberg Opens 145-Minute 'Disclosure Day' as UFO Secrecy Drives a Plea for Truth
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 9
Spielberg Opens 145-Minute 'Disclosure Day' as UFO Secrecy Drives a Plea for Truth
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 9
Summary
Friday’s opening frames “Disclosure Day” as Steven Spielberg’s latest alien drama, centered on a global revelation that governments and contractors have hidden extraterrestrial contact.
Emily Blunt anchors the 145-minute film as Kansas City journalist-meteorologist Margaret Fairchild, while Josh O’Connor’s fugitive cybersecurity expert carries the disclosure that sets off the chase.
Wardex chief Noah Scanlon, played by Colin Firth, leads the secrecy campaign, giving Spielberg room for kinetic pursuit scenes even as the review says the villains remain thinly drawn.
The film treats disclosure not as catastrophe but as a test of whether truth can reconnect people, an idea tied to Spielberg’s renewed UFO interest after a 2017 New York Times report on the Pentagon’s secret program.