Full Disclosure: the reality behind Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day'
- Channel
- NBC News
- Length
- 26 min
- Format
- Documentary
- Speakers
- NBC News narrator, Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, and 4 more
- Claims checked
- 2 of 20
Summary
An NBC News promotional segment (produced by Universal Pictures' sister company to coincide with Steven Spielberg's 2026 film 'Disclosure Day') interleaves behind-the-scenes interviews about the film with real-world UAP news: David Grusch's whistleblower claims of non-human biologics from crash recoveries, an unidentified witness's sworn hearing testimony, Barack Obama's viral and then-clarified remarks on alien life, and the Pentagon's first two 2026 declassified UAP file releases (May 8 and May 22). An unnamed scientist commentator calls the released material inconclusive and 'not particularly intriguing' so far, insists only a physical artifact counts as evidence, and argues a genuinely advanced non-human visitor should not be reducible to blurry, selectively-seen lights. The segment's own framing states flatly that government concealment is already an established fact ('in 2026, we know they're lying to us'), a stronger claim than its featured scientist supports.
We publish a summary, chapters, the claims and short quotes. The transcript itself is never published.
Speakers
- NBC News narratorHostunnamed on-screen narrator/correspondent voice for the NBC News segment
- Steven Spielbergdirector of Disclosure Day
- David Koeppscreenwriter of Disclosure Day
- Emily Bluntactor, stars in Disclosure Day as a TV meteorologist
- Josh O'Connoractor, plays Daniel Kelmer in Disclosure Day
- Colman Domingoactor, plays Hugo (a whistleblower character) in Disclosure Day
- David GruschUAP whistleblower
- Barack Obamaformer President of the United States
- Unidentified 2023 hearing witnesswitness testifying under oath at a congressional UAP hearing
- Unnamed NBC-interviewed scientist(s)scientist(s) interviewed by NBC about the Pentagon's declassified UAP files
Claims
- Unverified
The narration asserts that by 2026 government concealment of UAP information is an established fact, and that the only remaining question is why and what the truth is.
In 2026, we know they're lying to us. Now we wanna know why and what is the truth.
- Unverified
Spielberg says he personally believes the probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe is effectively certain, given its vastness.
I really believe that the probability of life elsewhere is infinite, and the improbability of life elsewhere is infinitesimal.
- Unverified
A congressional witness testified under oath that they could not explain what a specific object they observed was.
I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is.
- Unverified
In a widely circulated interview clip, Obama said aliens are real but that he had not personally seen them and dismissed the idea of a hidden Area 51 facility.
They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in... Area 51. There's no underground facility.
- Unverified
After the remarks went viral, Obama posted online that the odds are good there is life elsewhere, while adding he personally saw no evidence of alien life during his presidency.
The odds are good there's life out there, but [he] saw no evidence of alien life during his presidency.
- Unverified
Grusch says whether the government has made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials is something he cannot discuss in a public/open setting.
Something I can't discuss in a public setting.
- Supported
Grusch states that non-human biologics accompanied some of the crash recoveries he has knowledge of, an assessment he attributes to unnamed people with direct knowledge who remain on the program.
Biologics came with some of these recoveries... non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to.
Our check The record shows Grusch made this claim (in his June 2023 NewsNation interview with Ross Coulthart and again in his July 2023 sworn House testimony): that non-human biologics accompanied some crash recoveries, per unnamed sources still on the program. The fact of the statement is established. The underlying substance is not: it is Grusch relaying what others allegedly told him, he named no sources publicly, and AARO's Historical Record Report Vol. 1 (March 2024) found no empirical evidence of recovered non-human biologics or technology after reviewing decades of records and roughly 30 interviews.
Sources aaro.mil
- Unverified
The segment restates, via its own interview question, Grusch's earlier public claim that the government possesses potentially non-human spacecraft.
You've stated that the government is in possession of potentially non-human spacecraft.
- Unverified
Koepp says he had already begun writing Disclosure Day before the 2023 congressional UAP hearings took place, and found the timing between the script and real events 'overwhelming.'
We had already started working on the story and then those hearings took place... the sense of congruent timing was overwhelming.
- Unverified
Blunt says that for her research she watched every congressional UAP hearing and documentary she could find, and that witnesses' composure despite professional retaliation convinced her of their authenticity.
It was their absolute authenticity, their peacefulness in knowing what they saw, however discredited they'd been, disvalued, kicked out of their job, called a whistleblower.
- Supported
The Pentagon's declassified UFO files reportedly include a 2013 military video of what appears to be an eight-pointed star streaking across the sky, plus mysterious white and black aerial blips.
The files include a military video from 2013 of what appears to be an eight-pointed star streaking across the sky.
Our check our records's own PURSUE manifest entry for DOW-UAP-PR038 (Release 1, 5/8/26) confirms this almost word for word: a 2013 infrared video from a US military platform, AARO's video description literally says 'an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length.' The segment's on-air quote ('a military video from 2013 of what appears to be an eight-pointed star streaking across the sky') matches. One nuance the narrator's framing elides: AARO's own file title for this release is 'Resolved as an Aircraft, Middle East 2013,' i.e. AARO itself does not treat this as mysterious.
- Unverified
A handful of the newly released sightings reportedly involve objects diving from 70,000 feet, traveling faster than the fastest jet aircraft, and then diving into the ocean.
We're talking about objects that can dive bomb from 70,000 ft, travel faster than our fastest jet airplanes, and then dive into the oceans.
- Unverified
The second batch of Pentagon files reportedly includes decades-old audio of astronauts describing mysterious bright lights and particles outside their spacecraft.
The second batch of files include audio of astronauts decades ago describing mysterious bright lights and particles.
- Unverified
The files reportedly date back to the 1940s, including an FBI report from an Air Force colonel reporting a flying disk, and a 2023 video showing three concentric circles flying in unison.
The files date back to the 1940s, including an FBI report from an air force colonel reporting a flying disk, and in 2023 video of three concentric circles flying in unison.
- Unverified
If extraterrestrial visitors exist, the scientist argues, they would still be bound by the same laws of physics tested on Earth; even a higher-dimensional visitor would appear as an ordinary 3D object once it stepped into our dimension, so sightings have no physical reason to be blurry or seen only by some witnesses.
There's no reason for that to be fuzzy. There's no reason for only some people to see it and not the masses.
- Unverified
A scientist says the Pentagon's first file release, dated May 8, 2026, was not particularly intriguing, consisting of images and video that could be interpreted as things found on Earth.
The first release of data on May 8th, 2026 was not particularly intriguing... a collection of images, videos that could be interpreted in terms of what we find here on Earth.
- Unverified
The scientist argues that only physical, tangible evidence ('an artifact,' 'the thing itself') should count as real evidence, and that offering only blurry images is no longer acceptable.
Evidence is evidence. Give me an artifact. Give me the thing itself. That's evidence... it's no longer an excuse to just bring me fuzzy images.
- Unverified
The scientist hopes future releases, drawn from more recent and better sensors, will be more compelling than eyewitness testimony and unrecorded lights in the sky, while saying current evidence still needs to be better.
I would hope that they would manifest to us more reliably than lights in the sky... I need better evidence. I very much hope the most intriguing data is yet to come.
- Unverified
Spielberg says he has no inside information about non-human life among us but finds the circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly convincing that humanity is not alone.
I don't have any inside information about living among us, but I think the circumstantial evidence that exists right now... is overwhelmingly convincing that we are not alone.
- Unverified
Domingo says discussion of extraterrestrial life cannot be separated from discussion of God because both are fundamental belief systems.
You cannot talk about extraterrestrial life without talking about God... I believe it's because they are both fundamental belief systems.
Topics
- DisclosureThe sudden, decades-delayed push for government transparency about UAP becoming part of mainstream national conversation, paralleled in the segment by the film's plot about releasing secrets to the world at once.
- Non-human biologicsBiological material said to have accompanied some crashed-craft recoveries, assessed by unnamed sources as non-human in origin.
- Crash-retrieval programAn alleged government program holding recovered non-human craft (and, per Grusch, biologics), referenced via the interviewer's question about crashed craft and pilot bodies.
- Tic Tac UAPThe Navy pilots' 'Tic Tac' object description, referenced as the 2017-released case that began shifting witness credibility toward Navy/Air Force pilots.
- Witness credibility shiftA described shift from dismissing UAP witnesses ('housewives, truck drivers' with 'fuzzy lights') to crediting them once Navy/Air Force pilots and members of Congress began speaking on the record.
- Higher-dimensional visitorThe hypothesis that an advanced non-human visitor could occupy or travel through a higher spatial dimension, becoming a normal 3D object only once it 'stepped through' into ours; offered as a reason sightings should still not be blurry or selectively witnessed.
- Physical artifact standardThe evidentiary standard that only a physical, recoverable object ('an artifact,' 'the thing itself') counts as real evidence; photos, videos, and testimony no longer suffice.
- Information asymmetry and secrecyThe ethical claim that it is an injustice for UAP knowledge to be held by a small, powerful group while withheld from everyone else; stated as Koepp's motivation for writing the film.
- Religion and extraterrestrial beliefThe claim that belief in extraterrestrial life and religious belief in God cannot be discussed separately because both are 'fundamental belief systems.'
- Declassification lagThe claim that the most compelling UAP data is still to come because more recently collected, better-sensor material takes longer to work through declassification review than older material.