Spielberg film renews scrutiny of alien disclosure protocols (opens in new tab)

Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” released in theaters on June 12, follows a television meteorologist played by Emily Blunt and a whistleblower and cybersecurity expert played by Josh O’Connor as they confront an alleged decades-long cover-up of extraterrestrial life. The film presents alien disclosure as a sudden reckoning with government secrecy and the manipulation and control of information. SETI researchers who worked on an updated postdetection protocol told Scientific American that ...