Joe Hawkins
At first glance, Disclosure Day appears to be another science-fiction thriller centered on government secrecy, extraterrestrial life, and a world-changing revelation. Beneath the surface, however, the film functions as something far more significant. It serves as a fascinating case study in how modern entertainment continues to familiarize audiences with concepts that were once considered fringe, occult, or even spiritually dangerous.
Through themes of alien disclosure, psychic abilities, remote viewing, astral projection, channeling, and possession, Disclosure Day presents a worldview that feels increasingly common in contemporary media. A worldview that conditions viewers to reinterpret the supernatural through an extraterrestrial lens as opposed to a biblical lens.
Perhaps nowhere is this agenda more apparent than in the emotional scenes involving Daniel’s girlfriend, Jane Blankenship. After viewing evidence that the aliens are allegedly being tortured, Jane becomes deeply emotional. Her response reflects the film’s broader effort to shift audience sympathies toward the extraterrestrials. Rather than presenting them as potential deceivers, the narrative casts them as victims deserving compassion and understanding.
It is Jane who voices one of the film’s most important concerns, warning that people may begin viewing these beings as deities and stop believing in God. Ironically, while the film acknowledges this possibility, much of its narrative structure appears to move viewers toward exactly that conclusion.
While the government conspiracy drives the plot, the film’s most revealing elements emerge through the character of Margaret Fairchild. Following an encounter with a cardinal—one of several animal forms allegedly used by the extraterrestrials—Margaret begins displaying extraordinary abilities. She can read people’s thoughts, speak languages she has never learned, perceive information that should be impossible for her to know, and even appear to people as their loved ones.
This theme becomes even more apparent through the mysterious metallic devices featured throughout the movie. These artifacts grant users abilities including remote viewing, astral projection, cloaking, memory recovery, and even possession. The film presents these powers as advanced technology rather than occult practices. By presenting such experiences as scientifically explainable or technologically enabled, the film makes these abilities desirable, especially to a young person (in my opinion).
One of the most striking examples occurs during one of the remote viewing sequences. Users are able to project their consciousness beyond their physical location to observe another person and even question them about their whereabouts. However, the film establishes an unusual rule: remote viewers cannot “dive” on an “experiencer”—an individual who has been abducted and had direct contact with the alien entity. This distinction elevates the experiencers into a unique category of humanity, almost suggesting that contact with the alien transforms a person into something different. The implication is that these encounters create a spiritual or metaphysical barrier that ordinary consciousness cannot penetrate.
