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The teaser and trailer for the upcoming Steven Spielberg film, Disclosure Day, have kept the plot of the sci-fi story ambiguous until now. We all saw Emily Blunt emit alien noises (?) from her body while trying to deliver a weather report, and Colin Firth looking menacing before a car explodes through the sunroom of a nice country home. But what does it all mean? 

A new teaser for Disclosure Day, however, suggests that the film may be a story about the aftermath of an alien abduction. If my ears are serving me right, it sounds like Colman Domingo says, "It's the two of you, it's always been just the two of you" over a shot of Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor looking at each other, before cutting to two children resembling both actors lying down in a rather alien-looking space. That's followed by audio of someone saying, "What happened to us?" while Josh O'Connor looks down at crop circles forming around him that bear a suspicious resemblance to the Pokémon called Unown.

So are we being led to believe that O'Connor and Emily Blunt's characters were both abducted by aliens as children? I can buy that, if I overlook the fact that they're nearly a decade apart in age (Eve Hewson, however, is in her mid-thirties like Josh O'Connor). Suddenly, it feels worth pointing out that Emily Blunt has teased that this might be the movie Spielberg fans have been waiting for since the late 1970s. "There are definitely questions posed by Close Encounters that are answered in Disclosure Day," she told Empire, referring to Spielberg's 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind - a movie that ends with a human leaving to travel into space with some passing extra-terrestrials. Could this be what happens next...?

Take a look at the teaser below. 

It makes sense that Universal Pictures would want to keep things ambiguous in this age of streaming and the ever-unpredictable box office. We can speculate until we know the truth when the film hits theaters on June 12. 

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