Disclosure Day (2026)

Plot of Disclosure Day: The Wardex Corporation is a semi-government organisation whose main task is to hide evidence of alien involvement in activities on earth, but elements of their organisation think it is time for the population of the world to be told what is going on. Dr Daniel Kellner is one of these and with his girlfriend, Jane, and a rucksack containing evidence of the aliens he escapes from the Wardex headquarters and goes on the run. Meanwhile a TV weather girl, Margaret Fairchild starts talking to her boyfriend in Spanish and Russian, a moment apparently triggered by a momentary contact with a Cardinal bird. She is in the middle of her weather broadcast when she starts speaking in a strange language, consisting of clicks and glottal stops. She is then impelled to travel towards where Kellner is on the run, eventually leaving her boyfriend on the roadside. The boss of Wardex, Scanlan, manages to invade Jane’s mind using an alien device which allows them to capture Kellner, but now Margaret rescues him, using her new superpowers in a sort of ‘these are not the droids you are looking for’ moment. And they continue on the run. In another part of Kansas, Hugo Wakefield, another former Wardex boss, is assembling a house for purposes which will be revealed as all the pieces fall into place.

Content: No sex or nudity. Maybe a bit of alcohol consumption. There are alien artifacts which look like metal ingots which can be held in the hand which when being gripped by people can have different effects. In the hand of Scanlon the evil boss of Wardex he can transfer his mind into that of people at a distance, particularly Jane, Kellner’s girlfriend, or appear to be in the same room. In the hand of Margaret Fairchild what people around her can see can be altered, and at one time hardware influenced. There are a lot of car chases, one in Margaret’s boyfriend’s Alfa Romeo which ends up being pushed into collision with a passing freight train and others in a stolen Wardex car powered by a growling V8. There is a scene of Margaret as a child, and Kellner as a child being briefly kidnapped by the aliens, and being given superpowers, latent at the time. The aliens are disguised as woodland animals, hence one of the poster scenes.

A View: It is early days but I think this outing is destined to make money despite its considerable production cost. The four o’clock screening at our favoured cinema in Madrid was pretty full of people, always a good sign. There is a lot of suspension of disbelief required, particularly because we are not left in any doubt as to whether the aliens exist, and whether they landed in America. As a result we are left with the question as to why they would bother, and since they were being treated so badly by the Americans why did they not choose somewhere else to land? But in the real world I used to be a seafarer, and what we did was keep watch, so for hours and hours in the night we were looking out into the dark. Many of us, including me, have seen flying objects which defy explanation. A good basis for a story. And the film? There are some wonderful moments, so even though the denouement is a bit of a let down, worth the ticket price.

Fun Fact: The scene where the Alfa-Romeo is pushed into the side of a passing freight train took three weeks to film.