Disclosure Day: “Listen.”

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has arrived with massive expectations, strong early box office, and a wave of polarized reaction from critics, audiences, and the UFO community. Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman watched the film twice — including Bryce’s Las Vegas screening with legendary UFO journalist George Knapp, followed by an IMAX screening in Austin with Jesse Michels — and came away with evolving, complicated reactions. In this episode of Sound, Light & Frequency, Bryce and Brent do not review Disclosure Day as a conventional summer blockbuster. Instead, they examine it as Spielberg’s apparent “closing argument” on UFOs, aliens, secrecy, empathy, and the public’s right to know. What, if anything, is actually being disclosed? Why does the movie focus on private contractors, abducted “chosen” humans, alien avatars, Roswell, Jackie Gleason, and an elderly Gray called In Vivo 17? And what should we make of its final one-word message: “Listen”? As Hollywood and real-world UAP events continue to blur together, Disclosure Day may not be the hard-cut revelation some hoped for, but it has undeniably pushed the conversation further into the mainstream. Bryce and Brent ask whether Spielberg is simply telling a story — or whether this film is another sign of the long, strange convergence between Hollywood, UFOs, and the truth that may no longer stay hidden. To learn more: www.SoundLightFrequency.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.