Disclosure Day with Steven Spielberg & David Koepp

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🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Have aliens already secretly visited us? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Steven Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp to discuss their new film Disclosure Day, alien contact, and why Spielberg believes there’s more out there than meets the eye.

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0:00.0	People have a right to know the truth.
0:04.0	It belongs to 7 billion people.
0:08.0	What is it?
0:10.0	You won't believe me if I'd told you.
0:12.0	So I'm gonna show you.
0:14.0	What are you gonna do?
0:18.0	Full disclosure, to the whole world, all at once.
0:28.6	This is StarTalk.
0:32.6	I'm Will deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and today we've got some special brewing.
0:39.4	Oh, yeah.
0:40.9	We're going to talk about Disclosure Day.
0:44.9	Not just in the abstract, but I've got with me here, the one, the only, Stephen Spielberg.
0:53.1	It's his story, and he directed it.
0:55.2	But we also have the writer, David Kep,
0:58.5	who not only wrote Disclosure Day,
1:00.9	but wrote many other science fiction films,
1:03.7	not only in collaboration with Stephen,
1:05.9	but also of his own.
1:08.0	So we know this episode is going to serve your geek underbelly. And that's coming right up on StarTalk.
1:17.8	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
1:26.4	StarTalk begins right now.
1:30.7	Stephen, good to see you again.
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