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Steven Spielberg Has A Theory About The Recent Uptick In UFO Sightings—And It's Very On-Brand
Anyone who has spent any amount of time on TikTok knows the TikTok community loves to entertain a good conspiracy theory about the paranormal, including criptids, ghosts, evil spectres and extraterrestrials.
MermaidTok and SpiritTok are constantly trending, after all.
But a recent popular theory involves unidentified objects, or UFOs, sighted over the United States, like in this video that notes multiple sightings in February 2023 alone.
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Now theE.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial director Steven Spielberg has his own theory.
While on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert tackling a career-spanning interview, fantastical subjects came up including the many UFO sightings on TikTok, as well as the mysterious balloons from China sighted over the United States.
Looking quite serious, the director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind explained to Colbert:
“I’ve never seen a UFO. I wish I had! I’ve never seen anything I can’t explain."
"But I believe certain people who have seen things that they can’t explain. I think what has been coming up recently is fascinating, absolutely fascinating."
"And I think the secrecy that is shrouding all of these sightings and the lack of transparency… I think there is something going on that just needs extraordinary due diligence.”
"I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe. I think it’s mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos. I think that’s totally impossible."
"At the same time, it also seems impossible that someone would visit us from 400 million lightyears from here, except in the movies, of course, unless it figures out some way of jumping the shark, so to speak, and getting here through wormholes.”
But the Oscar-award-winning director had quite a theory to share with Colbert.
“The most optimistic thing I feel about these things we see in the skies, that the Army and Navy and Air Force are recording on their gun cameras, is that what if they’re not from an advanced civilization 300 million lightyears from here?,"
"What if it’s us, 500,000 years in the future, that is coming back to document the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century because they’re anthropologists?"
"And they know something we don’t quite know yet that has occurred, and they’re trying to track the last hundred years of our history.”
You can watch the full interview between Spielberg and Colbert here:
For his theory to work, humans would have to still be around in 500,000 years, which Spielberg believes we will be.
"Yes, we survive. Or at least a certain percentage of us survives that allows future generations to flourish."
Some on Twitter could get behind what Spielberg was suggesting.
\u201c@TMZ As the great Astrophysicist #CarlSagan once said; We would be foolish to think out of the billions of planets and stars in the solar system, Earth hit the "cosmic lottery" and is the only planet with intelligent life.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ I mean I don\u2019t think anyone doubted that there was life out there. I just wanna know why the government doesn\u2019t think the American People can handle it.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ I mean\u2026.duh\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ "Hmm, hiding information about UFOs, the government is? Explains why in the galaxy far, far away, no visit from them we've had. Spielberg, wise he is. #UFOsecrets #GovernmentCoverUp"\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ So there really is an MIB? I knew it.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
But some still needed more convincing.
\u201c@TMZ Maybe he should share what he knows. Of course there are secrets but no one in the public eye has answers, just theories. In my experience the ones that say they have answers aren\u2019t being honest. I\u2019d love to be proven wrong someday which is why I\u2019m still looking.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ This is the one thing I have to disagree with SS on. Sorry, there\u2019s no life outside of earth in the physical universe. Search all you want.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ May or may not be true. Honestly don't care 1 bit about any ufo story. Let's say there are aliens, apparently they have zero interest in anything on earth. They haven't attacked anywhere. They haven't poisoned us. They haven't kidnapped us. They have seen planet earth & said nope\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ Nope. No one can keep a secret like that.\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
\u201c@TMZ Once, Mr. Steven Spielberg does his complete research, he should make an epic movie about this\u201d— TMZ (@TMZ) 1677938759
Since Spielberg is already well-known for reaching into the past with Jurassic Park and out to worlds beyond with ET, Super 8 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it would only make sense for him to have theories about the worlds he has made real for so many people.