Steven Spielberg Says Barack Obama’s ‘Aliens Are Real’ Comment Was ‘Amazing’

Reality Tea via Yahoo ^ | 03 16 2026 | Editors

[yesthatjallen]

Steven Spielberg, who has frequently explored extraterrestrial themes on the silver screen, is set to return with another science fiction drama, Disclosure Day. Ahead of the film’s release, the director expressed support for former President Barack Obama’s remarks on the possibility of alien life. He believed this was “amazing” for his new film.

Steven Spielberg is set to return with a new UFO film, Disclosure Day. Ahead of the film’s release, former President Barack Obama sparked renewed interest in the topic after recent remarks went viral.

Obama spoke to Brian Tyler Cohen last month, suggesting that extraterrestrial life could be “real.” This drew widespread global attention. Obama later clarified that he meant it in a statistical sense.

Spielberg later addressed the remarks and said that his film Disclosure Day could benefit from the renewed interest (via Variety). “When President Obama made that comment, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is so great for Disclosure Day,’” Spielberg said. “Then two days later, he stepped back the comments and said what he believed in was 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,” he added.

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[Sirius Lee]

In Starfleet Academy nobody can hear you change the channel.

[logi_cal869]

“...could be real...” vs. “...are real...”

Clickbait.

[Salamander]

Aliens are actually demons so I’m not shocked that Barry would be really into them

[The Louiswu]

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Talk of aliens and UFO's is just a distraction a way to take the mind off the troubles of the real world which is fine, it's cool to be diverted for a while, no one can live inside all the stress of living every minute of every day.

[unread]

"President Barack Obama sparked renewed interest in the topic after recent remarks went viral.

Obama spoke to Brian Tyler Cohen last month, suggesting that extraterrestrial life could be “real.”

Well, that's it then. The "Magic Nigro" has spoken. The invasion can now began...

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Cuppa number three time, here. Sort of like someone holding paddles and yelling "clear!"

As to being objective about something, "We just don't know what we are dealing with." That's an interesting use of words. Does it reduce to you as being "objective about what we cannot know?" Does for me.

Actually I am rather good with "something we haven't even considered yet."

"Bias" as a word can be prickly, for there are connotations, and one of them definitely negative. I do not intend that. But it is amusing that when one looks at many definitions -- I just again reviewed one for the fun of it -- one finds the circular game of words themselves.

Objectivity -- "The state or quality of being objective." One could mimic with bias -- "the state of being biased." I'll go with "preference." And validate that with a dash of "we don't know" and stir in "something we haven't even considered yet."

Is their extraterrestrial life? I don't know. But additionally I don't care much, because we mere mortals are busy enough with arguing about terrestrial life. We snuff it out pretty good these days. So maybe those space aliens would do well to avoid us?

Besides, Spiel Berg comes to Play Mountain, and Obama comes to Alien who sought a "fundamental transformation." Rather alien to my view.

[Democrat = party of treason]

ONLY “alien” thing in Obummers life is his “wife”, big Mike.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Is their extraterrestrial life?" There. As in, "there, there." Fourth cup of coffee being applied.....

[TheThirdRuffian]

Obama saying that tells me (and mind you I live near Roswell) aliens are not real.

There are definitely things flying around that defy known laws of aerodynamics and propulsion. And physics in general, including acceleration from a stop so fast a human inside would be liquid but for some kind of inertia damper.

I’ve seen them and am not crazy nor easily confused by something else.

But if Obama said it was aliens, it’s not aliens.

[RoosterRedux]

Bias is indeed a very prickly thing.

For example, as an investor who analyzes companies, I have to be very careful not to become infatuated with the companies I study deeply. The more you study some companies, the more you develop a "bias" in their favor–an emotional investment from time spent. You may think their management is excellent, you may love their products, you may love the way they execute their business plan.

But in the end, all those wonderful things that I began to become infatuated with (biased toward) may still not mean that their stock will perform well–and that's my ultimate goal.

Bottom line, I have to examine my thinking to clean out the bias. Unfortunately, I discovered this process many years ago by paying a price for that bias.;-)

The same principle applies to all decision making. The same goes for applying the scientific method.

So yes, bias is a very prickly thing.

[Ezekiel]

Actually I am rather good with "something we haven't even considered yet."

"Disclosure Day"

It's a great prophetic title for Hollyweird unwittingly warning of events suddenly happening opposite of sure expectations.

Purim-esque*

MIB was a movie about NON-disclosure, release date July 2, 1997 (United States), Sivan 27, 5757:

"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!"

Disclosure Day is set to be released on June 12, 2026, Sivan 27, 5786.

Thus, instead of it being the same ship different day, it's a case of different ship, same day. 🤔

*27 Sivan (1790) – "Purim of Florence" – a celebration set to celebrate this day when Florentine Jews were saved from a mob.[2] [LINK]

(Florence's Latin name was Florentia, meaning "the Flourishing Town", from Latin: florēre, lit. 'to flourish or blossom'.[15])

Besides, June is National Rose Month.

Come to think of it, October 7th, 2026, will mark the 40th anniversary since the rose [of any color] was designated as our national flower (our 40th President's Proclamation 5574 followed on Nov. 20).

October 7th is an interesting date in Jewish history, because opposite of a horror-event, it was TBOTWAWKI -- the beginning of the world as we know it:

The initial epoch for the new Moon is 11:11:20 p.m. at the meridian of Jerusalem on Monday, 7 October 3761 B.C.E. (proleptic Julian calendar; Jerusalem's longitude is 2 hr 21 min east of Greenwich). This began the Jewish calendar, 1 Tishri A.M. 1 (Anno Mundi).

https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/jewish

Or set this calendar to year 1.

"Shushan" of Purim fame means a lily or a rose, such as how in Hebrew a compass rose is the "rose of the winds" [שושנת הרוחות]:

A ➡️ MIRACLE ⬅️ does take time to manifest, but then you know how it goes -- everyone invariably acts all shocked and surprised, even horrified, depending upon who you are. "Unexpected" and all that.

Lost, clueless, confused and frightened, no internal compass.

Maybe because like the meme lady sez, "Nobody got time fo' dat".

[whitney69]

“...suggesting that extraterrestrial life could be “real.”

Could be? He didn’t say anything there. We could be living in quantum physics, we could be stupider than we admit, we could be already dead...could be can cover any status and could be right...or not. Could be is closely related to might be but a long way from should be or is.

wy69

[woodbutcher1963]

Do you really think that IF another race of humaniods, Kingons, Lizzard people, Insects or anything else we can not imagine can travel across the galaxy/universe would have any real problem with eliminating 5-8 billion people from this planet IF they really wanted to?

I suspect we are more of a curiosity to advanced civilizations. Our problem is that starting in 1945 we became potentially dangerous. More than just clever monkeys. Splitting and fusing the atom maybe got their attention.

[Vaduz]

Bingo

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Bottom line, I have to examine my thinking to clean out the bias. Unfortunately, I discovered this process many years ago by paying a price for that bias.;-)

"The same principle applies to all decision making. The same goes for applying the scientific method.

"So yes, bias is a very prickly thing."

So are cacti and mosquitoes and beyond. Some are biased against bias, but I prefer the first definition: "to cut against the grain."

Rather different definition for the scientific method, which I don't take as anything more than open premises and open-to-prove by those premises. Besides, heuristics requires some prejudices, when all is said and done. I do 'good enough' good enough, but flee from optimizing what some think is optimal. 'Tis said, best is the enemy of better.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Beware the Ekumen riding on their Hainish cycles. They seem ekumen-ical, but are knot.

[dljordan]

I heard him on a podcast the other day.

[sport]

That settles the argument, then, because if obama says it is true, One knows damn well that it is not. It is a crock of shit.

[dljordan]

“Interdimentional demons? Yep.”

Condon report from the Collins Elite. Nick Redfern wrote a book along those lines too. Supposedly the Collins Elite are still in operation.

[plain talk]

Yes. Spielberg has always partnered with film editor Michael Kahn. The result is some of the best concise edited movies I have ever seen.