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2026-06-17 -Great Cultural Revolution

'Day of Disclosure': How Steven Spielberg Converted Americans to a Quasi-Religion

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Posted by badanov 2026-06-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1850 views ] Top

1 The Department of War just released the third tranche of records under PURSUE. The first tranche was released on May 8, 2026. Scroll down to view the third tranche, released on June 12, 2026.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-17 01:42|| 2026-06-17 01:42|| Front Page Top

2 I anxiously await the live interview of an alien. Until then...

Posted by Besoeker 2026-06-17 06:35|| 2026-06-17 06:35|| Front Page Top

3 ....Dr. Carl Sagan - yeah, the guy had his own issues, but he was pretty smart - wrote his final book, The Demon Haunted World, not long before he passed.

The point of the book was that we are the most technologically advanced civilization we know of...but we are also the most superstitious, and he included UFOs in that.

And his point was simple - in the world where cameras watch 24/7, in day or night, not ONE of these things has ever been seen on one of these cams. Lotsa footage from Government sources, though.

Food for thought, I think.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2026-06-17 06:47|| 2026-06-17 06:47|| Front Page Top

4 I've tried to listen with an open mind. But the leap from, 'What the Hell is that?' to 'it MUST be aliens!' is a pretty long and mainly unsupported one.

That and nothing says they traveled over 1,000 light years across space undetected like crashing the bus in NM.

Something unknown? Sure, we've only been in the air at all for a little more than a century. But unknown really means unknown, not a secret code for aliens. Short story way to long, Spielberg acts more like a guy with something to sell than something to reveal.

Posted by Cesare 2026-06-17 06:52|| 2026-06-17 06:52|| Front Page Top

5 Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is what hooked me into it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-06-17 08:59|| 2026-06-17 08:59|| Front Page Top

6 An unhealthy obsession with aliens and everything related to them...

Not surprisingly, I actually agree with Fedot Streletsky on this one.

Until an actual outer space allen and the not build on earth or vicinity spacecraft is shown and freely accessible to the public, I will say this is a whole bunch of "Whoo Whoo" crap.

The real question is what are they trying to deflect our attention from?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-06-17 09:21|| 2026-06-17 09:21|| Front Page Top

7 From: Men in Black

TLJones: Actually there are a lot of aliens on our planet right now disguised as humans. For example Dennis Rodman
Will Smith: Not much of disguise.

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-06-17 11:51|| 2026-06-17 11:51|| Front Page Top

8 How dull it must be to have dreams and belief crushed by overlords.

Pentagon UFO files describe 'mother orb' releasing smaller objects in 2023 incident that remains unexplained

Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-17 12:30|| 2026-06-17 12:30|| Front Page Top

9 Any intelligent aliens would stay hidden. Shirley, they've tuned into the movie and understand there would be war!

Posted by Bobby 2026-06-17 12:31|| 2026-06-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

10 I know! It's ball lightnings!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-06-17 13:10|| 2026-06-17 13:10|| Front Page Top

11 ^ I've had that. Usually with polyester briefs in a Santa Ana

Posted by Frank G 2026-06-17 13:18|| 2026-06-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

12 Spielberg acts more like a guy with something to sell than something to reveal.

I think you just got Spielberg's number.

Yeah, I watch Ancient Aliens. I find it much more entertaining than a lot of the crap on TV these days. I might even watch Spielberg's movie. That doesn't mean I'm waiting for ET to come to Earth like the second coming of Jesus, solve all of our problems and make everything wonderful.

One of the most prominent UFO researchers, Jacques Vallee, speculates that the government is happy to let us believe in extraterrestrial vehicles and has even created illusions of UFOs to distract us from what they're doing. I wouldn't put it past them.

In the absence of better evidence I'll remain agnostic, not about God, but about ET. But if ET is real, he's likely to be a messenger from God.

Either that or they'll be like the graphic:

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-06-17 14:27|| 2026-06-17 14:27|| Front Page Top

13 And Frank, I think you'd be a lot more comfortable in cotton.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-06-17 14:31|| 2026-06-17 14:31|| Front Page Top

14 Neil deGrasse Tyson dares government to 'just show the alien,' as disclosure fervor continues to grow

Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-17 17:06|| 2026-06-17 17:06|| Front Page Top

15 I just saw Disclosure Day, with three other boomers. All four liked it. Some interface with religion, but more about government coverup, to protect us, doncha know. Worthy of Spielberg.

Posted by Bobby 2026-06-17 17:09|| 2026-06-17 17:09|| Front Page Top

16 I read The Report on Unidentified Objects (pdf) 50-60 years ago. Very well done, I thought - not a threat, but worthy of investigation.

I still remember one incident, from Chapter Four, about Green Fireballs.
As they watched, the object seemed to
approach their airplane head on, changing color from orange red to green. As it became
bigger and bigger, the captain said, he thought sure it was going to collide with them so he
racked the DC-3 up in a tight turn. As the green ball of fire got abreast of them it began to
fall toward the ground, getting dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared. Just before he
swerved the DC-3, the fireball was as big, or bigger, than a full moon.

Burned into my memory, I guess.

Posted by Bobby 2026-06-17 17:38|| 2026-06-17 17:38|| Front Page Top

17 If these extraterrestrials have really been visiting visiting earth for decades or more they certainly would have to be preternaturally tidy and clean.

So far no technological artifact with an extraterrestrial isotopic signature has been found and presented to the public, be it a machine or even something trivial like some scrap metal, screws, bolts, fibers, plastic wrappers, tin foil etc.

In this instance absence of evidence strongly implies evidence of absence.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2026-06-17 20:46|| 2026-06-17 20:46|| Front Page Top

18 #8. We had something similar near our lake. Enough of the sightings that MUFON sent a crew here. I filmed one near one of our bee yards 2 months ago. They are out there.

But to the movie. Did anyone else notice the Christphobic ranting direction? Pure schit.

Posted by Woodrow 2026-06-17 21:38|| 2026-06-17 21:38|| Front Page Top

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