Steven Spielberg believes aliens are real
Steven Spielberg believes aliens are real and is disapponted he's never met one.
Steven Spielberg believes in aliens and has warned "we are not alone on Earth".
The 79-year-old filmmaker's upcoming movie Disclosure Day is about UFOs and while he "doesn't know" for sure if extra-terrestrials exist, he has a "very strong suspicion" that they do, and he was thrilled when former US President Barack Obama recently declared aliens are "real".
Speaking during The Big Picture with Steven Spielberg Live conversation at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday (13.03.26), he said: “I don’t know any more than any of you do, but I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about that."
Of Obama's recent comments, he admitted his first thought was: “Oh, my God, this is so great for Disclosure Day!”
He added: “And two days later, he stepped it back to to say what he believed was in life in the cosmos — which, of course, everybody should believe in.
"Because no one should ever think that we are the only intelligent civilization in the entire universe. So I’ve been thinking as a kid that we were not alone. So that just goes without saying. The big question is: Are we alone now? And have we been alone over the last 80 years? Have we been alone over the last few thousand years?”
The Close Encounters of the Third Kind filmmaker would love to meet an alien one day.
He said: “I made a movie called Close Encounters of the Third Kind — I haven’t even had a close encounter or the first or second kind! Why haven’t I seen anything? Half of my friends have seen UFOS or UAPs. Where’s the justice of that? If you’re listening out there …
“I’m not afraid of any aliens. I have no fears about that whatsoever.
"I think our movie does take into consideration that social dislocation that could occur. If it was announced there is interaction [with aliens] that have been going on for decades, it’s going to cause a disruption in a lot of belief systems. But I don’t think it is a lethal disruption at all.”
Obama - who served two terms as president between 2009 and 2017 - caused a stir last month when he insisted aliens are real and the first question he asked following his election victory was related to beings from outer space.
During appearance on the No Lie With Brian Tyler Cohen podcast, Obama said: "They’re real. But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at ... Area 51. There’s no underground facility - unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States."
Cohen then asked the former politician: "What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?" and Obama replied: "Where are the aliens?"
After the interview was published, Obama shared a clip showing him talking about aliens on his Instagram page and made an attempt to clarify his answers.
Obama wrote: "I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify.
"Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
Obama was touching on long-running conspiracy theories which suggest the US government has been aware of alien life for decades and evidence has been stored at the Area 51 military base in Nevada.
