Short Note / Jun 09, 2026
CBS asked Spielberg if aliens are here. He said yes.
CBS asked Steven Spielberg whether aliens have been here and are here now. His answer turns the Disclosure Day rollout from movie publicity into a sharper UFO statement.
CBS put the question plainly to Steven Spielberg: Have aliens been here? Are they here now?
He said yes.
The answer came in a CBS Sunday Morning interview published June 7, during the press tour for Disclosure Day, his new film opening June 12. Spielberg did not reach for movie language or hedge with "in my imagination." He said his belief is built from material he has collected over the years — encounter reports, public testimony, congressional hearings — and that he thinks they have been here, and are here.
That sentence lands differently coming from him. This is not a podcast clip or an anonymous account. It is the director of Close Encounters and E.T., in release week, giving interviewers a straight answer to his own film's central question.
Three interviews, one shape
The CBS line did not appear in isolation. On June 3, the Associated Press quoted Spielberg saying Disclosure Day is the first alien film of his that people will call science fiction — but he does not consider it that. On June 8, ITV asked him about the wave of UFO and UAP reporting since 2017. He said that wave made the subject feel realistic to him again, and he spoke about the possible shock of any official confirmation that alien life is present on Earth.
Put the three interviews together and the shape is clear. AP gave the category shift. CBS gave the yes. ITV gave the post-2017 context.
Spielberg is selling a film, and the interviews are built around a release date. But the rollout is doing something unusual: one of the most recognizable names in alien cinema is no longer keeping the premise at arm's length. The records side of the UAP debate — congressional testimony, file releases, the Capitol events filling the same week — still has the harder job.
Spielberg just has the cleanest line.
Sources
- CBS Sunday Morning: Disclosure Day director Steven Spielberg on alien visitations, published June 7, 2026.
- ITV News: Disclosure Day: Steven Spielberg returns with new alien blockbuster, published June 8, 2026.
- Associated Press: Steven Spielberg on his faith in alien life, the future of the movies and the power of empathy, published June 3, 2026.
- UAP Logbook: Spielberg says Disclosure Day is not science fiction.
- UAP Logbook: Garry Nolan on CBS, Disclosure Day, and UAP materials.