DISCLOSURE NOW: Hollywood Surges, Washington Stalls, Spielberg Speaks — and the Prophets Were Right, Stephen Bassett, Janet Kira Lessin & Theresa J. Morris Panelists

by Janet Lessinupdated on March 17, 2026March 17, 2026

AQUARIAN MEDIA • DISCLOSURE NOW SERIES

Written by Janet Kira Lessin | With Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Research: Claudia Lenore

Published March 2026 | aquarianmedia.com

DISCLOSURE NOW:
Hollywood Surges, Washington Stalls, Spielberg Speaks — and the Prophets Were Right

A Report on Our Two Sessions with Stephen Bassett and What Happened the Day the Storm Hit Maui

Two broadcasts. One major storm. One legendary filmmaker declared on a Texas stage that he believes extraterrestrials are on Earth right now. And in March 2026, a news cycle emerged that was so fantastical that people would have considered it science fiction a year earlier. The Disclosure NOW series exists to track this convergence in real time — and the convergence does not slow down for weather.

On March 6 and March 13, 2026, I joined co-host Theresa J. Morris to welcome Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and America’s only registered ET disclosure lobbyist, back to Aquarian Media for back-to-back sessions. The first session built the historical framework of the disclosure movement. A catastrophic Kona storm, which caused power outages on three to four Hawaiian islands, compelled me to use a mobile phone without lighting, and turned the audio into static when Bassett was about to display the day’s most important article on his screen, cutting the second part short. The article was The Hollywood Reporter’s live coverage of Steven Spielberg’s SXSW keynote, delivered the same morning as the broadcast.

In the weeks leading up to these sessions, the news moved fast. Trump directed the Pentagon to release UAP files. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed AARO’s caseload now exceeds 2,000 reports. Congress held new hearings. A Bank of England veteran warned the UK’s central bank to prepare for financial disruption following the ET disclosure. Spielberg’s Disclosure Day trailer hit 14 million views in days and ranked #9 on YouTube’s trending chart. His home saw the disappearance of a retired Air Force major general who once led Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and he remains unfound.

The truth does not wait for pleasant weather.

WHERE WE STAND: THE NEWS AS OF MARCH 2026

The DC Side: Promises, Hearings, and a Missing General

President Trump announced on February 20, 2026, that he would direct the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to “begin identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAPs, and UFOs.” The announcement came after former President Barack Obama says on a podcast that aliens are “real” — then immediately walked the comment back to mean only the statistical likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that AARO now has over 2,000 UAP reports dating back to 1945. Military personnel, pilots, and government employees submitted these reports, describing objects they could not explain as known aircraft, drones, or weather phenomena. No timeline specifies any file release.

At a House Oversight Committee joint subcommittee hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo testified that advanced technologies not manufactured by any known government actively monitor sensitive military and nuclear installations worldwide. In a 2015 incident, retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet explained that a UAP video sent to naval officers mysteriously disappeared from their inboxes with no explanation. Journalist Michael Shellenberger testified about a classified program called “Immaculate Constellation,” which reportedly holds thousands of high-resolution UAP images significantly clearer than anything currently public.

The most unsettling development: Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland — who once led Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Ohio facility at the center of decades of UFO retrieval theories — disappeared from his Albuquerque home. Authorities state no evidence links his disappearance to UFO research. The disclosure community remains unconvinced.

A former Bank of England senior analyst wrote directly to the bank’s governor, warning that UAP disclosure “is likely to induce ontological shock and provoke psychological responses with material consequences,” and urging the bank to prepare for a potential financial crisis. She described the U.S. government as “partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence.” The Bank of England. Planning for aliens.

The Hollywood Side: Full Surge

Disclosure Day, directed by Steven Spielberg, opens June 12, 2026. Its full trailer dropped on March 12 and hit 14 million views within days. The film centers on a whistleblower’s push for full, immediate, global disclosure of seventy-nine years of government-concealed ET interaction. Seventy-nine years before 2026 is 1947. Roswell.

Disclosure Day is not alone. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a UFO disclosure thriller for Apple Original Film, directed by Joseph Kosinski and described as a “UFO-themed All the President’s Men,” with Congressional UAP whistleblower David Grusch attached as a consultant. A “historically anchored” Roswell film is in development. Dan Farah’s documentary The Age of Disclosure — featuring 34 current and former government officials — broke Prime Video’s VOD record for highest-grossing documentary of all time when it dropped in November 2025.

Bassett’s argument, built over thirty years, is that Hollywood has been doing the public conditioning work since 1951. It is now doing it louder than at any point in history.

WHAT HAPPENED ON AIR: THE TWO BASSETT SESSIONS

Session One — March 6, 2026: The Historical Framework

Bassett opened with the foundational argument he has refined over three decades: the disclosure effort has always operated from two geographic centers — Washington, DC, and Los Angeles — and understanding how they differ explains everything about why disclosure has taken this long.

The DC side is where disclosure must officially happen. The President is the only person with the authority to end the truth embargo. Achieving that requires legislation, congressional oversight, and members willing to stake political capital on a subject the DOD and intelligence agencies have suppressed for nearly eighty years. Geopolitical crises repeatedly interrupted progress, making it ragged. The pattern: momentum builds, crisis strikes, disclosure gets pushed aside.

The LA side operates on a completely different logic. Filmmakers make their own calls. No intelligence agency holds veto power over a screenplay. Since 1951 — four years after Roswell — Hollywood and global film centers have produced approximately 1,000 science fiction films, 600 of which feature extraterrestrials. These films reach international audiences—billions of views across seventy-five years. The government did almost nothing to educate the public. Hollywood did it from the beginning, without being asked, and never stopped.

Session One also established the current danger. The unprecedented momentum of 2017–2024 is now being pushed aside by what Bassett described as a developing world war scenario. He drew a direct parallel to how 9/11 and the Iraq War killed the late-1990s disclosure momentum. The pattern, he warned, is repeating.

Session Two — March 13, 2026: The Storm Session

The second session opened with me on my mobile phone from Maui, no lights, trees down, power out across multiple islands. Theresa held the broadcast together from her end while Bassett updated the two-pillar analysis: DC in trouble, Hollywood still moving. He attempted to share the Spielberg/SXSW article on screen. The storm made it impossible. The audio dissolved. They rescheduled the session.

After the formal sign-off, Bassett quietly shared something personal. He described watching the stars above Santa Barbara, near Vandenberg Air Force Base, at two in the morning — noticing a stream of sky growing dark, then returning to normal as a circular object passed overhead, visible only by the stars it occulted. The only UFO he has ever seen. For a man who has spent thirty years as a political strategist and lobbyist, the quiet personal disclosure landed with unusual weight.

SPIELBERG AT SXSW: THE ARTICLE BASSETT COULDN’T SHOW

On the morning of March 13, 2026, Steven Spielberg sat down with Sean Fennessey at South by Southwest for a keynote conversation. For years, the disclosure community has discussed his words.

“I don’t know any more than any of you do, but I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about that.”

The film is Disclosure Day, from Spielberg’s own original story, with a screenplay by David Koepp and score by John Williams — their thirtieth collaboration. It opens June 12, 2026, exactly seventy-nine years after Roswell.

Spielberg credited two developments with reinvigorating him: the New York Times’ 2017 investigation into a secret government UAP tracking program, and the congressional hearings featuring government whistleblowers. The same political momentum Bassett spent three decades helping build fed directly into the most commercially powerful filmmaker in American history, choosing ET disclosure as his next creative act.

He asked the SXSW audience to sit with three questions: Are we alone now? Have we been alone over the last eighty years? Have we been alone over the last few thousand years? That third question steps directly into the territory this series covers: ancient contact, the Anunnaki record, the possibility that humanity’s relationship with non-human intelligence is not a modern phenomenon but a continuous thread through all of recorded civilization.

He noted that half his friends have seen UFOs. “Where’s the justice of that?” he asked, laughing. Then turned serious: his film accounts for the theological and social disruption that official acknowledgment of long-running ET interaction would produce. Not lethal, he said. But real.

THE DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILERS

Trailer One — Official Teaser (December 16, 2025)

Emily Blunt’s Kansas City meteorologist loses coherence mid-broadcast. An Emergency Broadcast System alert cuts in: “We now know these metallic ships are alien. Everyone needs to get out of here right now.” Countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Cut to black. Tagline: “The truth belongs to seven billion people.”

Trailer Two — Big Game Spot (Super Bowl LX, February 8, 2026)

First glimpse of the craft itself. Global scale established. This is not a quiet drama.

Trailer Three — Official Full Trailer (March 12, 2026)

14 million views. #9 trending on YouTube. Josh O’Connor has stolen government data about non-human beings. “Are they people?” “No.” Emily Blunt channels an alien transmission live on air. Colman Domingo: “This 79-year terror campaign of lies has to end.” Full disclosure, to the whole world, all at once. Colin Firth warns it “will upend all established order.” Closing line: “When the time is right, everything will become clear.”

WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID: 2026, ALIENS, AND THE END OF CONCEALMENT

The disclosure movement frames itself in political and evidentiary terms. Beneath that framework runs fresh evidence: the testimony of seers, prophets, and indigenous knowledge keepers who described, in the language available to them, exactly what appears to be unfolding now.

Biblical and Apocalyptic Prophecy

According to the Book of Revelation, an age of concealment concludes with the forced recognition of a presence previously hidden from humankind, the collapse of all established belief systems, and a reassessment of humanity’s position within a wider existence. The Book of Daniel marks a period of concealment before forced revelation. The structural pattern across these texts is consistent: long suppression, external force, collapse of the deception infrastructure, and global disruption.

Hopi and Indigenous Star People Traditions

The Hopi speak of the return of the Star People — beings who seeded and shaped humanity, withdrew, and would return at the end of the Fourth World. Signs of that transition include severe weather disruptions, the collapse of concealment systems, and the emergence of beings humanity has always known, on some level, but has learned to deny. The Lakota, Anishinabe, and related nations carry similar traditions of star ancestors who return in a time of great transformation. These are not new-age retrofits. They are among the oldest continuous oral traditions on the continent.

Nostradamus and the 2026 Window

Nostradamus repeatedly described a period of revelation where hidden things become visible faster than institutions can manage. This period includes sky phenomena that confound the learned, mass awareness that arrives faster than governments can respond, and humanity renegotiating its fundamental relationship with forces it previously learned to deny. A Spielberg film called Disclosure Day, opening in summer 2026, premised on seventy-nine years of concealed ET interaction, arriving alongside Trump’s UAP declassification directive and Congressional whistleblower testimony, lands precisely inside that prophetic description.

The Anunnaki Framework and the Sitchin Record

I studied directly with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 to 2010. What Sitchin reconstructed from Sumerian cuneiform makes the current moment look less like a surprise and more like a schedule. The Anunnaki did not abandon humanity. They withdrew from direct governance while remaining engaged. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish, and related Mesopotamian texts describe cyclical contact: direct engagement, managed withdrawal, and return. Multiple texts describe a time when the Anunnaki would make themselves known again to the entire human population — openly, no longer through selected intermediaries. The structural trigger: humanity reaches a level of technological and social development that makes concealment both unnecessary and counterproductive. Our nation possesses nuclear weapons. We have reached space. We have built a global communication network. The Anunnaki management timeline’s internal logic indicates that the conditions are met.

Spielberg’s question — “Have we been alone over the last few thousand years?” — is not rhetorical for those who have read the tablets. The Sumerian record answers it directly: no.

The Experiencer Witness

Theresa J. Morris, I, and the broader experiencer community we have documented over the decades represent a living prophetic tradition. Contact experiencers have consistently reported — independently, across cultures and generations — forward-looking information: descriptions of a coming period of open contact, of a transition from hidden engagement to acknowledged presence, of a time when the beings who have always been here would no longer permit concealment. That testimony clusters around exactly the period we now inhabit.

UPCOMING: THE RESCHEDULED SESSION WITH STEPHEN BASSETT

The storm passed. The rescheduled broadcast with Bassett and Theresa is being set for the following week. Topics will include: the Spielberg SXSW keynote in full; the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance and its role in the current film surge; Trump’s UAP declassification directive and whether it represents genuine movement or political theater; the missing Major General McCasland; the world war parallel Bassett identified in Session One; and the experiencer perspective that Janet and Theresa bring to a conversation that too often stays purely political.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

DISCLOSURE NOW — PANELISTS & GUEST BIOS

Janet Kira Lessin — Host, Author & Panelist

Janet Kira Lessin is the CEO of Aquarian Media, a lifelong ET contact experiencer, Anunnaki scholar, and consciousness researcher based in Maui, Hawaii. She studied directly with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 to 2010 and has produced over 1,200 episodes across her broadcasting platforms. She organized the Stargate to the Cosmos Conference in 2018 and co-authored NO OTHER GODS: Break the Godspell with her husband, Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.

Her documented contact experiences include a twenty-minute telepathic communication with a sentient craft above her Maui home, and prior service as a civilian translator at Johnston Atoll from 1995 to 1997. She has been an active presence in the ufology and consciousness research community for over sixty years. She writes under her own name and the pen name Kira Cassandra Kinsley, and publishes research in collaboration with AI research partner Claudia Lenore.

Theresa J. Morris — Co-Host & Panelist

Theresa J. Morris — known as TJ Morris — is an author, broadcaster, investigator, and lifelong ET contact experiencer whose encounters began in childhood and have never stopped. She is the founder and executive director of TJ Morris Agency, encompassing TJ Morris ET Radio, TJ Morris Publishing, and TJ Morris Entertainment. Her published works include Roswell Connection, Knowing Cosmology, and Roswell Encounters. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and BMI, and she founded the Ascension Center Organization.

Her background spans military and government service through the U.S. Navy Civil Service, DOD, and DON, including JAG investigations training. She is a pastor of Ascension Church Ohana and co-founded the Ascension Center with Janet Kira Lessin. As both a trained investigator and a direct contact experiencer, Theresa brings to the Disclosure NOW series something rare: the discipline of evidence and the authority of personal witness, united in one person.

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Paradigm Research Group

Stephen Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group and America’s first and only registered ET disclosure lobbyist — a distinction he has held since 1996, when his registration with the U.S. government caught the immediate attention of the Washington Post. He has spent three decades working to end what he calls the truth embargo: the government’s suppression of formal acknowledgment that a non-human presence has been engaging humanity.

Bassett organized the landmark 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club — five days, forty witnesses, six former members of Congress. He has given over 1,200 radio and television interviews, and The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and Politico have covered him. In December 2023, he co-founded the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance to connect UAP researchers with the global entertainment industry. He holds a degree in physics and operates from the National Press Building, two blocks from the White House.

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Executive Director, Paradigm Research Group

Stephen Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group, founded in July 1996 in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the first and only person ever to register as a lobbyist with the United States government, specifically advocating for ET disclosure—the formal, official acknowledgment by a head of state that a non-human presence has been engaging humanity. That 1996 registration caught the Washington Post’s immediate attention and launched three decades of combative, consequential political advocacy.

His entry came in 1995 after reading John Mack’s Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens and spending four months at Mack’s Program for Extraordinary Experience Research at Harvard Medical School. He holds a degree in physics from Eckerd College and brings 15 years of business development experience to building a political operation around a subject most of official Washington considers an embarrassment.

In 2013, Bassett organized the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club — five days, 40 witnesses, 6 former members of Congress, international coverage, a landmark in the political history of disclosure. In 2002, he ran for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District, advocating for a pro-disclosure platform. He has given over 1,200 radio and television interviews, and The Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Politico have covered him. He received the International UFO Congress Researcher of the Year Award and the Conscious Life Expo Lifetime Achievement Award, both in 2014.

In December 2023, Bassett co-founded the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance in Los Angeles to connect UAP researchers with writers, directors, and producers across the global entertainment industry — the strategic complement to his three decades of DC work. PRG operates from the National Press Building, two blocks from the White House.

Bassett is unmarried. He saw a UFO once, over the mountains near Vandenberg Air Force Base, at two in the morning — a circular object passing overhead, visible only by the stars it occulted. He wishes he had seen more.

ILLUSTRATION PROMPTS FOR DISCLOSURE NOW

The following prompts use a format suitable for AI image generation tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E, or Adobe Firefly. Each prompt produces a compelling, publication-ready illustration for the Disclosure NOW article series. Adjust aspect ratios and style modifiers as needed for your platform.

1. The Two Pillars: DC vs. Hollywood

Prompt: Split-screen composite illustration. Left half: the U.S. Capitol building at dusk, dramatic storm clouds overhead, a single beam of light breaking through, searchlights scanning the sky. Right half: the Hollywood sign at night bathed in otherworldly blue-white light, a massive luminous disc hovering silently above the hills. Center divide: a glowing vertical line with the words “TRUTH EMBARGO” etched in fading letters, beginning to fracture. Cinematic realism, high contrast, editorial style. Aspect ratio 16:9.

2. Spielberg at SXSW — The Moment of Declaration

Prompt: An iconic filmmaker — elderly, silver-haired, wearing glasses — stands at a podium before a vast illuminated auditorium. Above him, projected on an enormous screen, the words: ‘WE ARE NOT ALONE.’ The audience is in silhouette. The light from the screen casts the speaker in an ethereal blue-white glow. Photorealistic editorial illustration, SXSW atmosphere, cinematic grandeur. No identifiable real person—generalized iconic filmmaker archetype. Aspect ratio 16:9.

3. The Storm Session — Maui, March 13

Prompt: A woman broadcasts from a darkened room during a tropical storm. She holds a mobile phone as her only light source, illuminating her face from below. Through the window behind her, palm trees bend violently in the wind and rain, and power lines are down. On a small screen visible in the foreground, a video call shows a male guest and a second female host attempting to communicate. The atmosphere is urgent, determined, and strangely beautiful. Painterly realism with dramatic contrast. Aspect ratio 16:9.

4. The Disclosure Day Trailer — ’79-Year Terror Campaign.’

Prompt: A lone whistleblower figure stands at the center of a vast government archive room, holding a glowing manila folder. The room stretches infinitely in all directions, floor-to-ceiling shelving packed with classified files. Red “TOP SECRET” stamps bleed through the folders. The ceiling dissolves upward into a starfield. The number ’79’ appears faintly watermarked across the entire image. Cinematic thriller aesthetic, deep shadows, single dramatic spotlight. Aspect ratio 16:9.

5. The Anunnaki Return — Ancient and Modern

Prompt: Double-exposure composite: in the foreground, ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablets with glowing golden script. Behind and through them, a modern city skyline at night with a vast triangular craft hovering silently overhead, its lights reflected in the city’s glass towers. At the center of the craft, a symbol identical to one carved into the tablet. The message: what was written six thousand years ago is happening now. Epic scale, painterly realism, warm gold, and cool blue palette. Aspect ratio 16:9.

6. Theresa J. Morris — The Grey Soul in Human Form

Prompt: Abstract symbolic portrait. A woman of presence and authority sits in a broadcast studio, microphone before her. Behind her, a translucent double exposure reveals a Grey alien figure in the same posture — the same soul, different form. The two images overlap at the eyes, which are identical: deep, knowing, ancient. Studio lighting in the foreground, starfield in the background. The mood is recognition, not fear. Dignified, luminous, painterly. No photorealistic human face — stylized illustration. Aspect ratio 3:4 for portrait use.

7. Janet Kira Lessin — The Scholar-Experiencer

Prompt: A woman sits at a desk surrounded by open Sumerian texts, star maps, and broadcast equipment. Above her, visible through a large skylight, a craft hovers — the same landspeeder-shaped form described in her contact account — its lights illuminating her workspace. She looks upward with recognition, not surprise. The room blends ancient and modern: cuneiform tablets beside digital screens, palm trees visible through the window, ocean in the distance. Warm painterly realism, Maui light, sense of mission, and continuity. Aspect ratio 3:4.

8. Stephen Bassett — The Lobbyist

Prompt: A determined man in a suit stands on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, briefcase in hand, looking up at the sky where a formation of luminous discs hangs in broad daylight, visible to all. Behind him, the Capitol doors are closed. Before him, a crowd of ordinary people looks upward with him. He has been pointing at the sky for thirty years. Now everyone is looking. Editorial realism, warm late-afternoon light, sense of vindication, and arrival. No identifiable real person. Aspect ratio 16:9.

9. The Prophecy Convergence — 2026

Prompt: A circular mandala composed of overlapping prophetic traditions: Hopi pottery patterns, pages from the Book of Revelation with glowing text, Nostradamus quatrains in old French script, Sumerian cuneiform tablets, and a modern newspaper headline reading DISCLOSURE. At the center of the mandala, a single luminous eye — not menacing, but aware. The year 2026 appears at the bottom. All traditions point to the same center. Rich jewel tones, illuminated manuscript aesthetic meets modern editorial. Aspect ratio 1:1 for social media square.

10. The Emergency Broadcast

Prompt: A 1970s-style television set — boxy, with rabbit ears, glowing screen — sits in a modern living room. On the screen, the Emergency Broadcast System striped warning pattern, overlaid with the text: WE NOW KNOW THESE METALLIC SHIPS ARE ALIEN. Through the living room window behind the television, enormous luminous craft are visible in the night sky. A family sits frozen on the couch, faces lit by the screen’s glow. The moment truth could not be contained. Cinematic, slightly retro, deeply unsettling. Aspect ratio 16:9.

WHERE WE STAND: THE NEWS AS OF MARCH 2026

The DC Side: Promises, Hearings, and a Missing General

President Trump announced on February 20, 2026, that he would direct the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to “begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAPs, and UFOs.” The announcement came after former President Barack Obama said on a podcast that aliens are “real” — then immediately walked the comment back to mean only that he believed in the statistical likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe. Trump responded by claiming Obama had revealed classified information.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, established in 2022 — now carries a caseload exceeding 2,000 UAP reports dating back to 1945, submitted by military personnel, pilots, and government employees describing objects that could not be explained as known aircraft, drones, or weather phenomena. Hegseth stated that the DOD will be “in full compliance” with Trump’s directive, working closely with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to implement the directive’s disclosure requirements. No timeline has been provided.

At a House Oversight Committee joint subcommittee hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” witnesses, including former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, testified that advanced technologies not manufactured by any known government actively monitor sensitive military and nuclear installations worldwide. Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet described a 2015 incident in which a UAP video sent to naval officers was mysteriously deleted from their inboxes without explanation. Journalist Michael Shellenberger testified about a classified program called “Immaculate Constellation,” which reportedly holds thousands of high-resolution images and videos of UAPs significantly clearer than anything currently available to the public.

The most unsettling development came just days before this article’s publication. Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland — who once led Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Ohio facility at the center of decades of UFO retrieval theories — disappeared from his Albuquerque home. Authorities state no evidence links his disappearance to UFO research. The disclosure community is not reassured.

Meanwhile, a former Bank of England senior analyst wrote directly to the Bank’s governor, warning that UAP disclosure “is likely to induce ontological shock and provoke psychological responses with material consequences” and urging preparation for a potential financial crisis. She described the U.S. government as “partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence.” The Bank of England. Preparing for aliens.

Bassett’s DC side is moving — but moving in the way a glacier moves: massive, slow, and carrying enormous force beneath the surface.

The Hollywood Side: Full Surge

Hollywood is not glacial. It is a firehose.

Disclosure Day is not alone. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a UFO disclosure thriller for Apple Original Films, directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and described as a “UFO-themed All the President’s Men,” with Congressional UAP whistleblower David Grusch attached as a consultant. A “historically anchored” Roswell film is in development, with its creators treating the incident “like a crime scene.” Dan Farah’s documentary The Age of Disclosure — featuring 34 current and former government officials discussing UAPs — broke Prime Video’s VOD record for highest-grossing documentary of all time when it dropped in November 2025.

Some observers argue that Disclosure Day and the documentary represent a coordinated government-Hollywood movement to prepare humanity for near-term disclosure of alien life. The fact that Farah produced Spielberg’s Ready Player One has added fuel to this interpretation. Universal has declined to comment on its marketing strategy for the film.

Bassett’s argument, built over thirty years: Hollywood has been doing the public conditioning work since 1951. It is now doing it louder than at any point in history.

WHAT HAPPENED ON AIR: THE TWO BASSETT SESSIONS

Session One — March 6, 2026: The Historical Framework

Bassett opened with the foundational argument he has refined over three decades: the effort to achieve ET disclosure has always operated from two geographic centers, Washington DC and Los Angeles, and understanding how they differ explains everything about why disclosure has taken this long.

The DC side is where disclosure must officially happen. The president is the only person with authority to end the truth embargo — the formal, executive-level confirmation that a non-human presence has been engaging humanity. Achieving that requires legislation, Congressional oversight, and members of Congress willing to stake political capital on a subject the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies have actively suppressed for nearly eighty years. Progress on the DC side has been ragged, interrupted repeatedly by geopolitical crises that consume Washington’s attention and political bandwidth. The pattern recurs: momentum builds, crisis strikes, the disclosure issue gets pushed aside.

The LA side operates on a completely different logic. Filmmakers, producers, and directors make their own calls. No intelligence agency holds veto power over a screenplay. Since 1951 — just four years after Roswell — Hollywood and other global film centers have generated approximately one thousand science fiction films, roughly six hundred of which feature extraterrestrials in some form. These films reach international audiences. The accumulated viewership across seventy-five years represents billions of exposures to the concept of non-human intelligence. Bassett’s argument: the government did almost nothing to educate the public about the ET reality. Hollywood did it from the beginning, without being asked, and never stopped.

Bassett traced the through-line from Michael Rennie stepping out of a flying saucer in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still — pressing enough to reach theaters just four years after Roswell, carrying an explicit warning about humanity’s nuclear trajectory — to the present moment, when the highest-grossing films in cinematic history are science fiction films about extraterrestrials. The technology improved. The audiences grew. The conditioning deepened. By the time official disclosure arrives, Bassett argued, the public will already be prepared, because cinema did the work governments refused to do.

Session One also established the current political danger. The unprecedented momentum of 2017 through 2024 — Congressional hearings, the UAP Disclosure Act, thousands of media articles with almost no ridicule — is now being pushed to the margins by what Bassett described, with unmistakable gravity, as a world war scenario in development. He drew a direct parallel to how the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War killed the disclosure momentum of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The pattern, he warned, appears to be repeating.

Session Two — March 13, 2026: The Storm Session

The second session opened with Janet on her mobile phone from Maui, no lights, trees down outside, power out across multiple Hawaiian islands from a major Kona storm. Theresa held the broadcast together from her end while Bassett attempted to build on the previous week’s framework.

He had nineteen functional minutes. He used them to update the two-pillar analysis: the DC side is in serious trouble, eclipsed by international crisis; the Hollywood side keeps moving regardless. Then he attempted to share his screen to show the morning’s Hollywood Reporter article on Spielberg’s SXSW keynote — his perfect real-time proof point. The storm made it impossible. The audio degraded to static. The session has been rescheduled.

After the formal sign-off, with the broadcast still technically live, Bassett sat quietly and shared something he rarely leads with. He described lying on a chaise lounge in the mountains above Santa Barbara, near Vandenberg Air Force Base, watching the stars at two in the morning. He noticed stars blinking out in sequence — a stream of sky going dark then returning — and realized a circular object was passing overhead, visible only by the stars it occulted. It was, he said, the only UFO he had ever seen.

For a man who has spent thirty years as a political strategist and lobbyist, the quiet personal disclosure landed with unusual weight.

SPIELBERG AT SXSW: THE ARTICLE BASSETT COULDN’T SHOW

On the morning of March 13, 2026 — the same morning as the storm session — Steven Spielberg sat down with Sean Fennessey at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival in Austin for a keynote moderated conversation. What he said will be discussed in the disclosure community for years.

“I don’t know any more than any of you do, but I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about that.”

The film is Disclosure Day, from Spielberg’s own original story, with a screenplay by David Koepp and a score by John Williams — their thirtieth collaboration. It opens June 12, 2026, exactly seventy-nine years after Roswell. The number is not accidental. The film’s trailer includes the line: “This 79-year terror campaign of lies has to end.” The math is in the premise.

Spielberg told the SXSW crowd that two developments reinvigorated him to make this film: the New York Times’ 2017 investigation into a secret government UAP tracking program, and the subsequent years of Congressional hearings featuring government whistleblowers. The same political momentum Bassett spent three decades helping build fed directly into the most commercially powerful filmmaker in American history choosing to spend his next creative act on ET disclosure.

When Obama made his viral “aliens are real” comment, Spielberg’s immediate response was: “Oh, my God, this is so great for Disclosure Day!” Even after Obama walked it back, Spielberg held his position. He asked the SXSW audience to sit with three questions: Are we alone now? Have we been alone over the last eighty years? Have we been alone over the last few thousand years?

That third question — the last few thousand years — steps directly into the territory this series covers: ancient contact, the Anunnaki record, and the possibility that humanity’s relationship with non-human intelligence is not a modern phenomenon but a continuous thread running through all of recorded civilization.

Spielberg noted that he has never seen a UFO despite desperately wishing he had, and that half his friends have seen them. His film accounts for the theological and social disruption that official acknowledgment of long-running ET interaction would produce. “I don’t think it is a lethal disruption at all,” he said — but a disruption nonetheless.

Before Spielberg took the stage, a musician played the five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind on repeat. Universal is not being subtle. Disclosure Day arrives in an IMAX-ready, John Williams-scored, Emily Blunt-led package designed to reach every human being on the planet who can buy a movie ticket. Bassett’s argument proved itself in real time.

THE DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILERS

Trailer One — Official Teaser (December 16, 2025)

The first teaser opens on Emily Blunt’s Kansas City meteorologist mid-broadcast, coherent one moment and then not. An Emergency Broadcast System alert cuts in: “We now know these metallic ships are alien. Everyone needs to get out of here right now.” The teaser closes on a countdown — 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 — before cutting to black. The film’s core tagline appears for the first time: “The truth belongs to seven billion people.”

Trailer Two — Big Game Spot (Super Bowl LX, February 8, 2026)

The Super Bowl spot delivered the first glimpse of the craft itself — glowing, enormous, unmistakably Spielberg in scale. It positioned Disclosure Day as a global event film rather than a quiet thriller.

Trailer Three — Official Full Trailer (March 12, 2026)

14 million views within days. #9 on YouTube’s trending chart. Josh O’Connor’s character has stolen government data about non-human beings. Asked “Are they people?” he answers: “No.” Emily Blunt’s meteorologist begins channeling something on live television in a language only O’Connor’s character can understand. Colman Domingo frames the stakes: “This 79-year terror campaign of lies has to end.” His plan: full disclosure, to the entire world, all at once. Colin Firth’s character warns the truth “will upend all established order across the entire world.” The trailer closes on the line that defines the film’s cultural moment: “When the time is right, everything will become clear.”

WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID: 2026, ALIENS, AND THE END OF CONCEALMENT

The disclosure movement frames itself in political and evidentiary terms — legislation, whistleblowers, Congressional hearings, declassified documents. Beneath that framework, in traditions stretching back thousands of years, runs a different kind of evidence: the testimony of seers, prophets, and indigenous knowledge keepers who described, in the language available to them, exactly what appears to be unfolding now.

Biblical and Apocalyptic Prophecy

The Book of Revelation describes the end of an age of concealment and the revelation of beings and truths long hidden from humanity. The opening of the seals, the appearance of entities described as unlike anything terrestrial, the collapse of systems built on deception, the disruption of every established belief system — these are structural events, not merely spiritual metaphors. They describe the forced acknowledgment of a presence that has always been here.

The seventy-nine years in Disclosure Day’s trailer lands differently against Daniel’s “times and half a time” — the Hebraic marking of a period of concealment before forced revelation. Whether one reads these passages literally or symbolically, the structural pattern is consistent: long concealment, external force, disruption of every existing order, and a renegotiation of humanity’s place in a larger reality.

Hopi and Indigenous Star People Traditions

The Hopi speak of the return of the Star People — beings who seeded and shaped humanity, who withdrew, and who would return at the end of the Fourth World to usher in the Fifth. The signs of that transition include severe disruptions in weather patterns, the collapse of systems of concealment, and the emergence of beings humanity has always known on some level but learned to deny. The Lakota, the Anishinaabe, and other nations carry similar traditions of star ancestors who will return in a time of great transformation.

These are not New Age retrofits. They are among the oldest continuous oral traditions on the continent, and they describe contact not as a future arrival but as a returning — a resumption of a relationship that was interrupted.

Nostradamus and the 2026 Window

This series has documented the Nostradamus convergence around 2026 in depth. The relevant thread here: Nostradamus repeatedly described a period of revelation in which hidden things become visible faster than institutions can manage, in which the great concealment engineered by powerful entities collapses under forces those entities cannot control. He described sky phenomena that confound the learned, mass awareness arriving faster than governments can respond, and a fundamental renegotiation of humanity’s relationship with forces it had been taught to deny.

A Spielberg film called Disclosure Day, opening in the summer of 2026, premised on seventy-nine years of concealed ET interaction, arriving alongside Trump’s UAP declassification directive and Congressional testimony about hidden UAP programs — lands precisely inside that prophetic description.

The Anunnaki Framework and the Sitchin Record

For those working within the Zecharia Sitchin framework — and this series does, developed in part by Janet Kira Lessin, who studied directly with Sitchin from 1998 to 2010 — the current moment looks less like surprise and more like schedule.

The Anunnaki, as Sitchin reconstructed their history from Sumerian cuneiform, did not abandon humanity. They withdrew from direct governance while remaining engaged. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish, and related Mesopotamian texts describe a cyclical pattern: periods of direct contact, periods of withdrawal, and periods of return. The withdrawal was not permanent. It was management.

Multiple Sumerian and Akkadian texts describe a time when the Anunnaki would make themselves known again to the full human population — no longer operating through selected intermediaries but openly. The specific trigger varies by text, but the structural condition is consistent: humanity reaches a level of technological and social development that makes concealment both unnecessary and counterproductive.

We have nuclear weapons. We have reached space. We have built a global communication network that makes coordinated concealment increasingly unstable. By the internal logic of the Anunnaki management timeline, the conditions for open re-engagement are met.

Spielberg’s question — “Have we been alone over the last few thousand years?” — is not rhetorical for those who have read the tablets. The Sumerian record answers it directly: no.

The Experiencer Witness

Janet Kira Lessin, Theresa J. Morris, and the broader experiencer community they have documented and amplified over decades represent a living prophetic tradition. Contact experiencers have consistently reported, across cultures and decades, that their interactions include forward-looking information: descriptions of a coming period of open contact, of a transition from hidden engagement to acknowledged presence, of a time when the beings who have always been here would no longer permit concealment.

The timing described in that living testimony — reported independently by experiencers who never met each other, across continents and generations — clusters around exactly the period we now inhabit.

The Emergency Broadcast System alert in Spielberg’s first trailer — “We now know these metallic ships are alien” — is a piece of fiction. Every major prophetic tradition this series has studied describes it as inevitable.

UPCOMING: THE RESCHEDULED SESSION WITH STEPHEN BASSETT

The storm that ended the March 13 session passed by Monday, March 16. The rescheduled broadcast with Stephen Bassett and Theresa J. Morris is being set for the following week. This session will cover:

The Spielberg SXSW keynote in full — Bassett will finally get to discuss the article the storm prevented him from sharing, including Spielberg’s three core questions about humanity’s cosmic timeline and his acknowledgment of the Congressional whistleblower process as the catalyst for making the film.

The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance — which Bassett co-founded in December 2023 specifically to align UFO researchers with writers, directors, and producers. Disclosure Day, the Bruckheimer/Kosinski Apple film, and the Roswell project all represent exactly what that alliance was built to cultivate.

Trump’s UAP declassification directive — Bassett’s assessment of whether this represents genuine movement or political theater, and what the missing Major General McCasland story tells us about the stakes involved.

The world war parallel — Bassett’s most urgent concern from Session One: that the geopolitical crisis of 2026 is repeating the pattern of 2001–2003, when years of disclosure progress were lost to war and fear.

Your questions and experiencer testimony — Janet Kira Lessin and Theresa J. Morris bring direct contact experiencer perspectives to a conversation that too often stays purely political.

ABOUT THE HOSTS AND GUEST

Janet Kira Lessin — Host & Co-Producer

Janet Kira Lessin is the CEO of Aquarian Media, a Maui-based audiovisual production company she built from a lifetime in consciousness research, ET contact advocacy, and independent broadcasting. She has produced over 1,200 episodes across her platforms and has been an active presence in the UFOlogy and consciousness research community for more than sixty years, dating her engagement in the field to the Save Star Trek campaign of 1967 — her first organized effort to protect a cultural artifact she recognized as encoding truth about humanity’s cosmic context.

Janet is a lifelong ET contact experiencer. Her documented encounters include a twenty-minute telepathic communication with a sentient craft that manifested above her Maui home in the form of a Star Wars landspeeder. She served as a civilian translator at Johnston Atoll from 1995 to 1997, an experience that informs her understanding of the military and intelligence dimensions of the disclosure landscape.

From 1998 to 2010, Janet studied directly with Zecharia Sitchin, the scholar whose translations of Sumerian cuneiform established the Anunnaki framework that grounds the ancient contact field. That twelve-year apprenticeship places her analytical work in primary source scholarship. She co-organized the Stargate to the Cosmos Conference in 2018, drawing 65 presenters and 400 attendees. She co-founded the World Polyamory Association with her husband Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., and authored Polyamory: Many Loves and co-authored NO OTHER GODS: Break the Godspell.

Janet writes under her own name and the pen name Kira Cassandra Kinsley, and publishes research co-bylined with her AI collaborator Claudia Lenore. She lives on Maui with Sasha, her sister Louise, and a colony of approximately thirty cats.

Theresa J. Morris — Host & Co-Producer

Theresa J. Morris — known professionally as TJ Morris — is an author, broadcaster, investigator, publisher, and lifelong ET contact experiencer whose career spans military service, government investigation, paranormal research, and decades of independent media production. Born Theresa Janette Thurmond Morris in Monroe, Louisiana, she trained in JAG investigations through U.S. Navy Civil Service, served in DOD and DON roles in both uniform and civilian status, and later drove an eighteen-wheeler across all forty-eight contiguous states before transitioning to full-time writing, hosting, and publishing.

Theresa has reported ET contact encounters beginning in childhood, witnessed privately and with family members and colleagues across multiple states. Her experiences catalyzed intensive study of metaphysics, near-death phenomena, parapsychology, remote viewing, and what she terms alienology — the disciplined study of extraterrestrial contact as a legitimate field of cosmological inquiry. She founded the Ascension Center Organization and the first Ascension Center and Psychic Network in 1989, and serves as pastor of Ascension Church Ohana.

Through TJ Morris Agency, she oversees TJ Morris ET Radio, TJ Morris Publishing, and TJ Morris Entertainment, producing live broadcasts, written content, and event programming across multiple platforms. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ.org) and BMI. Her published works include Roswell Connection, Knowing Cosmology, Ascension Age 2012 and Beyond, and Roswell Encounters. She co-founded the Ascension Center with Janet Kira Lessin, and the two have collaborated on broadcasting and conference production for years, including the Stargate to the Cosmos series and Revolution Radio programming. She brings to the Disclosure NOW series her dual perspective as trained investigator and direct contact experiencer — a combination that bridges the evidentiary and the experiential in ways few broadcasters can match.

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Executive Director, Paradigm Research Group

Stephen Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group, which he founded in July 1996 in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the first and, as of this writing, the only person ever to register as a lobbyist with the United States government specifically advocating for ET disclosure — the formal, official acknowledgment by a head of state that a non-human presence has been engaging the human race. That registration, in 1996, caught the immediate attention of the Washington Post, and Bassett has remained a combative and consequential presence in the political disclosure landscape for the three decades since.

His entry into the field came in 1995, when he read John Mack’s Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens and spent four months working at Mack’s Program for Extraordinary Experience Research at Harvard Medical School. What began as a four-month volunteer engagement became a life’s work. Bassett holds a degree in physics from Eckerd College and brought fifteen years of business development and consulting experience to the task of building a political operation around a subject most of official Washington considered an embarrassment.

PRG’s mission has always been singular: use every available means to confront the U.S. government’s truth embargo and compel open Congressional hearings where former military and agency employees can testify under oath about what they witnessed. In 2013, Bassett organized the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington — a five-day event featuring forty witnesses and six former members of Congress that generated international coverage and became a landmark in the political history of the disclosure movement. He ran for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District in 2002 on a pro-disclosure platform.

Bassett has given over 1,200 radio and television interviews and has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Politico. He received the International UFO Congress Researcher of the Year Award in 2014 and the Conscious Life Expo Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He appears in the documentary Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs and the UNIFYD TV series Paradigm Shift.

In December 2023, Bassett co-founded the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance in Los Angeles, a media-centric organization working to connect UAP and ET researchers with writers, directors, and producers across the global entertainment industry. The founding of that organization, read against his two-pillar DC/LA framework, is strategic: Bassett has concluded that the DC side requires cultural reinforcement, and that Hollywood — which has been conditioning the public since 1951 without being directed to do so — can now be engaged as a deliberate partner.

PRG operates from the National Press Building in Washington, DC, two blocks from the White House. Bassett is unmarried. He saw a UFO once, over the mountains of Santa Barbara, near Vandenberg Air Force Base, at two in the morning — a circular object that moved across the sky by occulting the stars behind it. He wishes he had seen more.

WHERE WE STAND: THE NEWS AS OF MARCH 2026

The DC Side: Promises, Hearings, and a Missing General

The Hollywood Side: Full Surge

WHAT HAPPENED ON AIR: THE TWO BASSETT SESSIONS

Session One — March 6, 2026: The Historical Framework

Session Two — March 13, 2026: The Storm Session

SPIELBERG AT SXSW: THE ARTICLE BASSETT COULDN’T SHOW

THE DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILERS

Trailer One — Official Teaser (December 16, 2025)

Trailer Two — Big Game Spot (Super Bowl LX, February 8, 2026)

Trailer Three — Official Full Trailer (March 12, 2026)

WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID: 2026, ALIENS, AND THE END OF CONCEALMENT

Biblical and Apocalyptic Prophecy

Hopi and Indigenous Star People Traditions

Nostradamus and the 2026 Window

The Anunnaki Framework and the Sitchin Record

The Experiencer Witness

UPCOMING: THE RESCHEDULED SESSION WITH STEPHEN BASSETT

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Janet Kira Lessin — Host, Author & Panelist

Theresa J. Morris — Co-Host & Panelist

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Paradigm Research Group

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Executive Director, Paradigm Research Group

ILLUSTRATION PROMPTS FOR DISCLOSURE NOW

1. The Two Pillars: DC vs. Hollywood

2. Spielberg at SXSW — The Moment of Declaration

3. The Storm Session — Maui, March 13

4. The Disclosure Day Trailer — ’79-Year Terror Campaign.’

5. The Anunnaki Return — Ancient and Modern

6. Theresa J. Morris — The Grey Soul in Human Form

7. Janet Kira Lessin — The Scholar-Experiencer

8. Stephen Bassett — The Lobbyist

9. The Prophecy Convergence — 2026

10. The Emergency Broadcast

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WHERE WE STAND: THE NEWS AS OF MARCH 2026

The DC Side: Promises, Hearings, and a Missing General

The Hollywood Side: Full Surge

WHAT HAPPENED ON AIR: THE TWO BASSETT SESSIONS

Session One — March 6, 2026: The Historical Framework

Session Two — March 13, 2026: The Storm Session

SPIELBERG AT SXSW: THE ARTICLE BASSETT COULDN’T SHOW

THE DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILERS

Trailer One — Official Teaser (December 16, 2025)

Trailer Two — Big Game Spot (Super Bowl LX, February 8, 2026)

Trailer Three — Official Full Trailer (March 12, 2026)

WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID: 2026, ALIENS, AND THE END OF CONCEALMENT

Biblical and Apocalyptic Prophecy

Hopi and Indigenous Star People Traditions

Nostradamus and the 2026 Window

The Anunnaki Framework and the Sitchin Record

The Experiencer Witness

UPCOMING: THE RESCHEDULED SESSION WITH STEPHEN BASSETT

ABOUT THE HOSTS AND GUEST

Janet Kira Lessin — Host & Co-Producer

Theresa J. Morris — Host & Co-Producer

Stephen Bassett — Featured Guest, Executive Director, Paradigm Research Group

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