Just a reminder that Michael Jackson was murdered. It was not involuntary manslaughter, it was not a simple overdose, they made it look like an irresponsible doctor let him die, but he was murdered.
He doesn’t know he reached 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
He doesn’t know Billie Jean went back to #1 over 40 years after its release.
He doesn’t know Tito died.
He doesn’t know his nephew played him in a movie.
He doesn’t know Bubbles is still alive.
He doesn’t know a whole new generation is falling in love with him and his music.
Keep resting in power King.
Three years ago, a former Air Force intelligence officer told Congress, under oath, that the US government is hiding crashed alien craft, and the bodies recovered with them. Steven Spielberg had been following the whole thing. So he made a movie about it.
The movie is Disclosure Day, and the plot could be tonight's news. A whistleblower gets his hands on proof that we are not alone, the government tries to bury it, and a chase begins to get the truth out to the rest of the world.
The officer's name is David Grusch. He admitted he had not seen the craft himself, only heard about them from dozens of insiders he had interviewed, and the Pentagon denied the whole story. But he said it to lawmakers, on the record, with his hand raised. That was 2023.
For Spielberg, it started back in 2017, when the New York Times reported that the Pentagon had quietly spent years studying UFO sightings, including objects it recovered and could not explain. He has said that article, and the hearings that came after, pulled him back to UFOs for the first time since 1977. That was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He made E.T. and War of the Worlds in the years between, but he never returned to the idea of a government sitting on the biggest secret in history, until now.
Spielberg has believed since he was a kid that we are not alone. He still has never seen a UFO. "Half my friends have seen UFOs," he said this year. "I haven't even had a close encounter of the first or second kind. Where's the justice of that?"
His own theory is stranger than the movie. He told Stephen Colbert in 2023 that the things people keep seeing in the sky might not be aliens at all. They could be us, coming back from 500,000 years in the future to study the century that changed everything. Colbert pointed out that this would mean humans are still around that far ahead. "Yes, we survive," Spielberg said.
His aliens have crossed paths with the government before. In 1982, he screened E.T. for Ronald Reagan at the White House. When it ended, Reagan stood up, looked around the room, and said, "There are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true." Everyone laughed. Reagan was not smiling.
Disclosure Day opened at 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, his best-reviewed science fiction since the first Jurassic Park in 1993. And the same week it reaches theaters, Grusch is back in Washington, standing beside lawmakers, asking the government to unlock the files for good.