Filmed Locally - Disclosure Day - 22 December 2025

The first official preview for Steven Spielberg's upcoming science fiction mystery, Disclosure Day, arrived this week, offering glimpses of the film roughly seven months before its actual summer 2026 release. Mountain Eagle readers may remember Spielberg's production visiting the Haines Falls area in April of this year, when the film had the working title Non-View. Many scenes in the preview have a "rural Upstate NewYork" look, and maybe someone with a keen eye could identify a location, but nothing stands out as an obvious landmark. 

Plot details for Disclosure Day are still scant, and the tagline "All will be disclosed" suggests they will remain under wraps until closer to the release. The ominous preview shows us the always fantastic Emily Blunt as a weatherwoman struggling while on air, appearing to be possessed by something. It is unclear, but something is very wrong. It is then revealed that this possession (or whatever it is) seems to be impacting the whole world, including nuns, airplane passengers, and deer. Notably, all of the cell phones shown appear to be pre-smartphone, so it might be set in the early to mid-aughts. Ultimately, we're left with more questions than answers, which is a good thing. Enough with previews showing everything!

It was rumored that the film marks Spielberg's return to extraterrestrial life, a theme he explored with the friendly aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., and the not-so-friendly sort in 2005's War of the Worlds, which coincidentally also shot in Greene County. From the clues provided, Disclosure Day seems to be about a world where humans have discovered they are not alone, and maybe the aliens have been hiding in plain sight? We'll have to wait until June 2026 to find out whether they've come in peace. 

Not only is it Spielberg's return to the alien genre, but on Disclosure Day, he has teamed up with some of his most reliable collaborators. Spielberg tapped David Koepp, screenwriter of Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds, to write the script. And continuing their long career together, for the thirtieth time, Spielberg recruited John Williams to score the film. Why mess with a good thing?