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The first full trailer for legendary director Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi film Disclosure Day has been released and has sparked a popular theory on social media. According to some film fans, the movie might actually be a secret sequel to Spielberg’s iconic 1977 UFO film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day,” the film’s vague synopsis reads, via Universal Pictures.
The latest trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has led to theories that it’s actually a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
A few shots in the trailer, and the general vibe of it, has led to fans believing that it’s actually a “secret sequel” to Steven Spielberg’s seminal Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is what M. Night Shyamalan pulled off with Split and Unbreakable.
Los dos planos del trailer de #DisclosureDay que han despertado la verdadera teoría de la conspiración. ¿Ha hecho Spielberg una secuela secreta a su CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND? Comparen con el ovni entre nubes y la casa de Jillian Guiler en la película de 1977. pic.twitter.com/3fmTjHZaD4
— Horror Losers (@horrorlosers) March 13, 2026
that one shot of the UFO is pretty damning, i wouldn’t exactly put it past spielberg, and it would explain why they’ve played so coy about it thus far
— maddie (@payphoneexhibit) March 13, 2026
Sure looks like Melinda Dillon’s house in Close Encounters pic.twitter.com/THHLwSR0v8
— Stephe96 (@Stephe96) March 13, 2026
“If Disclosure Day is a secret sequel to close encounters and Richard Dreyfuss comes out of that UFO all this time later I stg,” one movie fan said.
“If Disclosure Day isn’t a secret CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND sequel I will eat at Arby’s,” a second joked.
Disclosure Day will star Emily Blunt alongside Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson.
The film was written by longtime Spielberg collaborator David Koepp, who has previously written Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Koepp’s other notable cedits include Mission: Impossible, Carlito’s Way, and Spider-Man.
If Disclosure Day does turn out to be a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it would come a whopping 49 years after the original film.