Film 'Disclosure Day' Released as Pentagon UFO Files and Religious Reactions Draw Attention

The film “Disclosure Day,” directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on Friday. The story centers on the implications of extraterrestrial life for religion on Earth. The Pentagon publicly released large swaths of UFO files in May.

The release came with very little context, leaving observers to form their own interpretations. Former President Barack Obama stated in an interview that aliens are real. ” He made a surprise visit to the “Disclosure Day” set.

Vice President JD Vance stated in a recent podcast interview, “I don’t think they’re aliens. ” Monsignor Stephen Rossetti was removed last week by the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington. The archbishop said statements by Rossetti “gravely undermine” Catholic teaching on demons and the devil.

Pope Leo XIV spoke to astronomy students at the Vatican last year about the “ancient light of distant galaxies” and the “mysterious joy” provoked by the study of outer space. Christopher Baglow, who heads a science and religion initiative at the University of Notre Dame, said the Catholic Church has long been open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Modern conceptions of UFOs began to develop after 1945, according to Jeffrey Kripal, a historian of religions at Rice University.

The International Raëlian Movement was founded in France in the 1970s. Its founder, Raël, claims he visited the planet of Elohim in 1975 and is a direct descendant of Yahweh. Raëlism claims the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials and Raël’s half brothers.

Susan Palmer, a sociologist at Concordia University in Montreal, stated that of the groups she has studied, Raëlism is the most sympathetic toward UFOs.