Disclosure Day’s first trailer teases close encounters of a different kind

Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi thriller hits theaters on June 12th, 2026.

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

Dec 16, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on.

There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Blunt) who goes into a strange trance on-air in Disclosure Day’s new trailer. The odd clicks coming out of her mouth sound inhuman and leave everyone watching alarmed because it seems like she might be having a fit.

But the woman seems much more…together in the presence of a mysterious man (Josh O’Connor) who says he knows the truth and wants to share it with everyone living on Earth. The way he appears to be able to create crop circles just by standing in a field suggests that alien shenanigans are afoot, but we won’t know for sure until the film debuts on June 12th, 2026.

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