Secrets, UFOs, and smokescreens: Why Washington is obsessed with extraterrestrials

Secrets, UFOs, and smokescreens: Why Washington is obsessed with extraterrestrials

Let’s start with the proven facts: Disclosure Day is the most anticipated film of the summer. Its director and screenwriter, Steven Spielberg, revealed details about its plot this week on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows: he says it tells the story of the theft by officials, “committed to the truth,” of all information held by the government “about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits,” and the system’s desperate attempts to prevent it being rev…