“As I got older and older, I started believing that something really is going on that we’re not being told,” he said.
What Spielberg thinks is being hidden
Spielberg said public testimony and documentary reporting helped shape his view. In an interview with CBS News, the 79-year-old said he has listened closely to people who claim knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena and government secrecy.
Based on “everybody I’ve listened to and every documentary I’ve ever watched and all the testimonies in Congress that I’ve heard,” Spielberg said, “I absolutely think that they have been here, and they are here. And who knows, maybe they’ve always been here.”
For all that conviction, Spielberg has not claimed a personal encounter. He joked to CBS that he is overdue for one.
“I deserve a sighting,” he said. “I mean, I’m an ambassador to these guys.”
His family appears open to the subject too. Spielberg said his wife, Kate Capshaw, and their children are “very open to the experiences that others have had.” Sensible, really. If your household has lived with E.T. and Close Encounters as family-adjacent history, the topic is probably not arriving cold at dinner.
How Barack Obama answered the alien question
Barack Obama also gave the subject a small public jolt in February when he was asked on a podcast whether aliens are real and answered yes. That answer did what such answers tend to do, which is make everyone briefly imagine a classified file being opened somewhere.
Obama later clarified on Instagram that he was speaking more broadly about probability, not announcing a secret visitor program. His point, he said, was that “the odds are good there’s life out there.”
So, no, there was no grand disclosure moment from the former president. At least not one he chose to share. His position lands closer to scientific possibility than flying-saucer confirmation: in a universe this large, assuming Earth is the only place where life happened may be a little self-flattering.
Why other stars keep the conversation going
The alien talk among celebrities runs from cautious curiosity to total certainty. Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato have both spoken about alleged UFO sightings, putting them on the more experience-based side of the discussion. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, meanwhile, have framed the question in more philosophical terms, arguing that it is arrogant to assume humans are alone.
Emma Stone’s name has come up in the wider extraterrestrial-belief conversation, a sign the topic has moved well beyond sci-fi forums and into celebrity interviews.
That range matters. Not every famous person talking about aliens is claiming to have seen something hovering over a highway. Some are saying the universe is too vast for Earth to be the only inhabited address. Others believe people have already witnessed something unexplained.
Either way, the subject keeps attracting public figures because it combines mystery, science, ego and a very human discomfort with not knowing. Spielberg may be the most cinematic voice in the group, but he is hardly alone in wondering whether someone, or something, has been watching from much farther away than the balcony seats.
