And I am not playfully throwing around the word “human” to show how the film is humanising the “aliens”, nor is it empty praise aimed at Steven Spielberg. There are two factions at loggerheads in the film: the whistleblowers who want to tell the world that they are not

The director narrates a scene from his movie that is a continuation, of sorts, of a sequence he filmed for his feature-length debut, “Duel,” in 1971.

Most overtly, “Disclosure Day” serves as a companion piece to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the 1977 blockbuster which, two years after “Jaws,” solidified Spielberg’s status as a New Hollywood...