‘They are here’: Steven Spielberg cites Congress testimonies, confirms belief in aliens

“Based on the circumstantial evidence of everything that I’ve gathered throughout my whole life and all the testimonies in Congress that I’ve heard, I absolutely think that they (aliens) have been here and they are here. And who knows, maybe they’ve always been here.” Despite making some of cinema’s most memorable films about alien encounters, Spielberg admitted he has never experienced anything paranormal himself. He added with a laugh, “Isn’t that terrible? Yeah. I deserved it. I deserved a sighting. And I need a sighting. I mean, I’m an ambassador of these guys and they haven’t shown themselves to me. I don’t get that.”

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Steven Spielberg also described Disclosure Day as a bookend to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and reflected on the childhood experience that sparked his fascination with the night sky nearly seven decades ago. “About five or six years old, I was living in New Jersey, and when your father comes into the bedroom and wakes you up from a sound sleep and puts you in a car, and I kept saying, ‘Dad, what is it? What is it?’ He said, ‘It’s a surprise.’ And he stopped at the big park, and it was the Perseus meteor shower. And that was the beginning of my love affair with the sky. I remember how shocked I was, but I also remember seeing these points of light darting across the sky, you know, and I just remember thinking that was one of the most extraordinary things I had ever seen.”