DISCLOSURE DAY…OR…ENCLOSURE DAY

Published: June 15, 2026

By Movieguide® Contributor

Derrick Warfel

Steven Spielberg is unquestionably one the best directors of the last fifty years for both popular matinee popcorn movies like Jaws or deeply moving Oscar winners like Shindler’s List. The filmmaking craft in Disclosure Day is no exception, though at two hours and twenty-five minutes it does drag a bit at the end. The problem is: the half-baked message. Wes, a director friend of mine, called it the most dangerous film he’d ever seen. So where did this plot driven chase film go wrong. Well, for a film about UFO aliens it comes across as a bit of a one-sided propaganda puff piece for the aliens that they couldn’t have done a better job at themselves. Human’s bad, UFO aliens good. And if you disagree you’re xenophobic. Does that sound like a familiar progressive meme?

OK, Derrick, so what gives you a place at the table to criticize? I’m an award winning producer myself, a Princeton graduate, and a Dallas seminary graduate who has studied and taught worldview and film for the last fifty years. And, for the last five years I’ve executive produced a documentary and written a 350 page companion book on the topic called UFOs and GOD coming out in August/September. I’m not saying I know everything, but certainly enough to see gaping story flaws in Disclosure Day.

Let me take a step back. A lot of people believe UFOs are just a myth. And so did I for forty years of my life. But, as I read more it was hard to dismiss all the credible sightings and encounters as bunk. Even those who have studied the phenomenon admit 99% of these sightings and encounters can be explained as natural phenomena, but a stubborn 1% cannot. And as a Christian I didn’t really have a category to place this information in. Then in my studies, I found an answer, which I will reference soon, that was not only obvious, but also very disturbing, which is why I’m writing this.

Back to the film, the script written by the talented David Koepp, (Jurassic Park) cleverly manipulates the audience with sympathy toward the aliens by showing one scene where humans supposedly dissected and tortured aliens implying this happened reguarly for over fifty years. The storyline then focuses on the government keeping the knowledge of the aliens existence from the public, making that cover-up the ultimate evil and so the government were the bad guys. This deftly distracts the audience from the real potential evil, the danger aliens present themselves, which is never really discussed, see below.

Some other concerning items in the film were as follows. Unlike in old horror films where the cross of Christ backed off the vampires, in this film the cross of Christ had no effect against the UFO’s magic wand. The filmmakers lowered the audience’s defenses by having comforting familiar things on the set like Easter eggs. And, before her alien encounter, Margaret as a little girl was singing on her bed the tune from “Snow White” – “Some day my prince will come”; and who comes to awaken her? The UFO aliens. Even the authority figure the Nun in the film was all in with the UFO aliens without having met them or heard what they believed. And at one point all world is mesmerized as they view the videos of the aliens on their cell phones in almost worshipful awe as if these are their new gods.

Then, there is a line of dialogue authoritatively repeated several times “Don’t’ be afraid of what you don’t know.” Is that really good advice for any area of life? If you don’t know anything about cars, or a used car dealership, or the salesman, should you just trust everything he tells you? Or if you don’t know anything about a UFO aliens (and the film says “we can’t know them”), or their intentions, or their past history, should we just throw all caution to the wind and trust them because of the dazzling technical tricks they do, or because the government hasn’t disclosed everything it knows about the phenomenon? A “wise” old UFO alien in the film instructs us to “Listen” to him as if he the final word on truth. I assume that means that we need to rethink all we know about a Creator God and start from scratch. Just because these aliens are smart, doesn’t mean they are moral. Remember all the evil geniuses in James Bond films.

Is there any reason we shouldn’t trust them? In our documentary and the book we go into a lot of them. In the movie the aliens preach empathy, something they know and the human race doesn’t. The lead character is a weather woman, Margaret Fairchild, who is driven, and whom the aliens call a “passenger”, but whom I would say is possessed by the aliens to carry out their plan. She shows empathy toward everyone she talks too. But is that what 80 years of studying the evidence of this phenomenon really shows? In our documentary we have testimonies UFO contactees telling of horrific results: losing families, jobs, finances, health. They were forced to labor and were painfully physically experimented on, even genitally, against their wills. All the while they were told “We will not hurt you.” Then the UFO aliens hurt them. And those who have been abducted against their wills by the aliens can’t seem to make it stop. There is even government research documenting the very negative physical aftereffects on people who have just seen UFOs. So much for alien empathy. It’s like the Nazi’s gaslighting concentration camp interns by telling them, “Work makes you free.”

So who are these beings? Are they intergalactic travelers with millennia of more knowledge about science and the meaning of life than a dusty itinerant evangelist 2000 years ago named Jesus. What do they teach? They deny a personal Creator God, they deny the Bible and almost every Christian teaching. They even deny Jesus is the son of God. To them He is just an ascended guru. They say we don’t need salvation from sin but re-incarnation. In fact they teach a religion that is very similar to New Age. Perhaps they even created it. They even say they were the ones who seeded advanced life on earth, not a Creator God. So who does this really sound like? Hmmm?

The apostle Paul says that if anyone, even an angel, preaches a different gospel to you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8). An angel? What type of angel would do that? A fallen angel would. Some may call them evil spirits or demons. They are the same ones who have been deceiving mankind throughout all of human history from ancient Near Eastern gods to the Mothman of West Virginia in the 1960s. They lead people away from God. Jesus says their real goal is “to kill, steal, and destroy” (John 10:10), or to enclose or entrap us. This trick of arriving in high tech UFOs is just the latest coat of paint on an old deception. Remember they say once a person has been adducted it’s not possible to make the abductions stop. But wait…people have found there is one way to make them stop… like in demonic possession if you call out to be delivered in the name of Jesus, it stops. Does that tell you who these beings really are. Don’t fall for this slick propaganda piece, even if it comes wrapped in an entertaining chase film.