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Spielberg Allegedly Got Naval Intelligence Access for Close Encounters UFO Films

American Alchemy · Spielberg Just Revealed The Truth About Aliens (He Knows!) · June 25, 2026
Spielberg Allegedly Got Naval Intelligence Access for Close Encounters UFO Films
American Alchemy
American Alchemy
Spielberg Just Revealed The Truth About Aliens (He Knows!)
"After Jaws, he was like, really big deal. And he apparently got approached by some guys from Naval Intelligence or something, and they came and offered him a deal. And he took it, and he got all sorts of information. I mean, Close Encounters is based on a true story. And I was like, what? And he goes, yeah, I mean, E.T. too. Like, he got access to a bunch of really, like, interesting case files and stuff."
Tobe Hooper, director of Poltergeist and close associate of Spielberg, allegedly revealed that Spielberg was approached by Naval Intelligence after Jaws and given access to classified UFO case files, which became the basis for Close Encounters and E.T. This claim, if true, would explain the prescient accuracy of UFO details in Spielberg's films decades before public disclosure.

About this episode

Jesse Michaels hosts this deep-dive analysis of Steven Spielberg's new film Disclosure Day, arguing the legendary director embedded genuine UFO secrets throughout the movie based on insider intelligence access. Michaels presents evidence that Spielberg has maintained longstanding connections to Naval Intelligence and the UFO disclosure community, beginning with director Tobe Hooper's alleged revelation that Spielberg received classified case files after Jaws. The episode systematically unpacks seven major revelations hidden in Disclosure Day, connecting the fictional Wardex corporation to real programs like Gray Fox and SAIC in Northern Virginia, tracing the film's depiction of the Majestic 12 committee to actual intelligence operations, and revealing how the movie's portrayal of remote viewing and timeline manipulation mirrors claims from real whistleblowers like Lou Elizondo and NASA operative Tim Taylor. Michaels details Easter eggs spanning Spielberg's entire career, from Close Encounters featuring real intelligence contractors Lockheed and TRW, to Back to the Future's Doc Brown character being modeled on anti-gravity inventor Thomas Townsend Brown, to Reagan's cryptic White House comment that everything in E.T. was true. The episode explores whether Spielberg included actual classified UFO footage in Disclosure Day's climactic evidence dump, noting the film was shot in Morris County, New Jersey near Picatinny Arsenal where the 2024 drone flap occurred. Michaels argues the movie's central message about receptivity and uncomfortable truth versus institutional stability represents the real choice humanity faces regarding disclosure.

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