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SUNDAY SCIENCE: STARTALK – STEVEN SPIELBERG BELIEVES IN ALIENS  
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Neill deGrasse Tyson, Steven Spielberg, David Koepp
June 16, 2026
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_ Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with legendary director Steven
Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp to discuss Disclosure Day, the
science and psychology of alien contact, and why Spielberg believes
there’s more out there than meets the eye. _

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

Why does Spielberg have so many alien movies? Spielberg reflects on a
career defined by the unknown, from his very first film to Close
Encounters, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and War of the Worlds. He
traces his renewed fascination with UFOs to a 2017 New York Times
article. Is there enough evidence of aliens out there? If the
government were to find aliens, should they tell us?  We explore how
smartphones have turned the entire population into a crowdsourced
surveillance network, and whether the timing of government file
releases around the film's debut is really just a coincidence. 

David Koepp then joins to pull back the curtain on the craft of
screenwriting. We learn about the delicate line between science and
fiction in writing science fiction. Would alien disclosure remedy
conflict on Earth? Are we projecting our own colonial history onto the
evil alien trope? And could aliens exist entirely outside our sensory
perception? Neil reminds us that we've invented instruments to extend
our senses before and that the universe is almost always stranger than
we imagine. 

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