Steven Spielberg Shares What Convinced Him Aliens Are Real

Steven Spielberg had to phone home to learn about E.T.’s.  

Ahead of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial director’s new alien movie Disclosure Day—which stars Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo and Emily Blunt—hitting theaters, he shared why he’s never doubted the existence of otherworldly beings. 

“I’ve always believed,” Steven told E! News in an exclusive interview. “Even as a child, my father was an electrical engineer, and he worked on the very first computer for RCA years and years ago. My dad put it into my mind that we are not alone. He wasn’t talking about Earth, he was talking about the cosmos.”

And the 79-year-old’s dad Arnold Spielberg inspired his own opinion on the matter. 

“He said, ‘There’s intelligent life out there,’” Steven recalled. “And my dad read a lot of science fiction, so I was born believing that out there, life exists, intelligent life exists.”

Of course, the Jaws director looked beyond his father’s opinions for his own proof. 

“It sort of became urban legends much more than conspiracy theories,” Steven continued. “It really became consistently truthful. As I got older and older, I started believing that something really is going on that we’re not being told.”