She Spoke in Tongues, and They Called It Demons
The Disclosure Day backlash exposes a double standard that runs through the heart of the demon lobby
Janet Kira Lessin | Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. | © 2026 Aquarian Media
A Kansas City weathercaster stands before her green screen, opens her mouth, and speaks a language no nation on Earth claims. The broadcast spreads across the planet within hours. Panic follows. So begins Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which opened in theaters worldwide on June 12, 2026, and so begins the loudest religious meltdown Hollywood has triggered in a generation.
The verdict from the fundamentalist commentariat arrived before the popcorn cooled. Margaret Fairchild, the character Emily Blunt brings to luminous life, channels the visitors. The demon lobby watched her do it and rendered judgment: possession. Demons seized her tongue. The deceiver speaks through her. Case closed.
Hold that verdict up to the light, and it shatters.
The Mirror They Refuse to Face
Charisma Magazine led the charge. The outlet platformed author L.A. Marzulli, who told its audience that the visitors serve as “meat suits for the demons to inhabit” and warned that Spielberg has spent five decades, from Close Encounters through E.T., to this film, preparing humanity for a grand spiritual deception. Catholic exorcist Father Dan Reehil went further on his Battle Ready podcast. He speculated that the production team consecrated the film itself to Satan, that demons ride the celluloid, that a curse awaits every viewer.
Now consider the congregation Charisma serves. Charisma speaks for the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tens of millions of believers who gather each Sunday and practice glossolalia: involuntary speech in an unknown tongue, words the speaker claims arrive from a source beyond the conscious mind. They call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They cite Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 12. They celebrate it as the supreme evidence of divine contact.
Margaret Fairchild does the identical thing on camera. Same phenomenon. Same mechanics. Same involuntary surrender of the voice to an intelligence beyond the self. One variable changes: the identity her judges assign to the source. When the source wears their label, the tongue speaks heaven. When the source arrives from the stars, the tongue speaks hell. Doctrine, never evidence, decides the verdict.
The Film Answers the Charge
Spielberg built the rebuttal into his own script, and his accusers either missed it or chose blindness. The screenplay, which David Koepp wrote from Spielberg’s story, transposes the gifts list of 1 Corinthians 12 onto the contact experience: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, signs, and wonders, and knowledge that arrives unbidden. The Gospel Coalition, hardly a friend of ufology, praised these parallels in its own review.
Then comes the scene that demolishes the possession charge. A woman witnesses Margaret’s abilities, crosses herself, and bows. Margaret refuses the gesture on the spot: “I will not be anyone’s religion.” Measure that moment against the demonology her critics profess. A demon, by its own catechism, craves worship and weaves deception. Margaret rejects worship and demands the truth reach seven billion people. The film stages the test that the demon lobby claims to apply, and its heroine passes. Her judges wrote their verdict before the lights dimmed.
A Framework Built to Convict
The aliens-as-demons thesis carries a structural flaw its champions mistake for a feature: no contact event can ever clear its bar. Benevolent visitors? Deception. Hostile visitors? Confirmation. Healing? Counterfeit miracle. Warning? Fear campaign. Silence? The calm before the deception. Every possible observation routes to the same conclusion, which means the framework explains nothing and convicts everything. Science calls that unfalsifiable. Journalism calls it a closed loop. I call it what it has been since preachers assembled it in the 1970s and 1980s: a quarantine wall built to isolate the contactee and channeling communities from their own churches, their own families, and their own minds.
I watched that wall go up in real time. Across five decades in the experiencer community and more than 1,200 broadcast episodes, I have interviewed hundreds of contactees who received the same sentence Margaret receives in the film. Vice President JD Vance lent the thesis fresh oxygen when he endorsed it, and viral posts revived it the moment Spielberg’s CBS Sunday Morning interview aired on June 7. One clip, reframed by an anonymous account the next day, claimed the director set out to break Christian faith. Spielberg, a Jewish filmmaker, mentioned Christianity nowhere in the interview. The distortion, never the quote, fueled the fire.
What the Channel Reveals
Here, the story turns from defense to disclosure, because Margaret’s gift points to a truth the experiencer community has carried for generations: enhanced abilities travel with contact. Telepathy heads the list. Experiencers report mind-to-mind communication with the visitors and, afterward, with each other. Precognition, remote perception, spontaneous comprehension of unknown languages, the sudden mathematics that floods Daniel Kellner’s mind in the film: every one of these appears in the contact literature going back a century.
The ancient record explains why these gifts read as alien, even though they belong to us. The Anunnaki, the Sumerian gods of flesh and blood whom Zecharia Sitchin documented across decades of scholarship, engineered our species as a worker race and throttled the design. They switched off the faculties that would have made us their equals. The blueprint survives in our cells. Geneticists long dismissed some 97 percent of the human genome as junk DNA, a label that betrays the same arrogance as the demon verdict: whatever the priesthood fails to understand, the priesthood condemns or discards. That dormant code holds the switched-off circuitry of telepathy, expanded cognition, and full-spectrum perception. The visitors operate with their entire neural architecture engaged. We run on a fraction of ours, by design, and the design was imposed.
Contact flips the switches. Experiencers report it again and again: abilities wake after encounters, perception widens, the channel opens. Margaret Fairchild dramatizes on screen what thousands have lived off-screen. When humanity reaches full consciousness, we will access the whole library written in our own cells, and we will, in essence, know it all, because the knowledge was ours before anyone locked it away. Disclosure means more than government files. Disclosure means the restoration of the human design.
The Panic Belongs to a Faction
The final irony: the faithful at large feel no threat. Theologian Ted Peters of the Graduate Theological Union surveyed more than 1,300 believers across Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and secular populations in his landmark 2008 study. Over 80 percent across all traditions said that the confirmation of extraterrestrial life would leave their faith intact. The Vatican has affirmed that life beyond Earth fits Catholic theology. Rabbis and Muslim scholars reached the same conclusion from their own texts. The meltdown belongs to a narrow, loud faction whose business model requires a demon behind every light in the sky.
Spielberg told CBS that, after a lifetime of testimony and evidence, “they have been here, and they are here.” A Kansas City weather reporter opened her mouth, and the truth poured out in a tongue the world has yet to learn. Some heard demons. Some heard the Holy Spirit by another name. I heard something older than both labels: the sound of a species remembering its own voice.
Janet Kira Lessin hosts Disclosure NOW and We the Anunnaki on Aquarian Media. She studied with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 until his passing in 2010 and has produced more than 1,200 broadcast episodes on contact, consciousness, and the Anunnaki record.
Version Two
She Spoke in Tongues, and They Called It Demons
The Disclosure Day backlash exposes a double standard that runs through the heart of the demon lobby
Janet Kira Lessin | Research: Claudia Lenore | © 2026 Aquarian Media
A Kansas City weathercaster stands before her green screen, opens her mouth, and speaks a language no nation on Earth claims. The broadcast spreads across the planet within hours. Panic follows. So begins Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which opened in theaters worldwide on June 12, 2026, and so begins the loudest religious meltdown Hollywood has triggered in a generation.
The verdict from the fundamentalist commentariat arrived before the popcorn cooled. Margaret Fairchild, the character Emily Blunt brings to luminous life, channels the visitors. The demon lobby watched her do it and rendered judgment: possession. Demons seized her tongue. The deceiver speaks through her. Case closed.
Hold that verdict up to the light, and it shatters.
The Mirror They Refuse to Face
Charisma Magazine led the charge. The outlet platformed author L.A. Marzulli, who told its audience that the visitors serve as “meat suits for the demons to inhabit” and warned that Spielberg has spent five decades, from Close Encounters through E.T., to this film, preparing humanity for a grand spiritual deception. Catholic exorcist Father Dan Reehil went further on his Battle Ready podcast. He speculated that the production team consecrated the film itself to Satan, that demons ride the celluloid, that a curse awaits every viewer.
Now consider the congregation Charisma serves. Charisma speaks for the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tens of millions of believers who gather each Sunday and practice glossolalia: involuntary speech in an unknown tongue, words the speaker claims arrive from a source beyond the conscious mind. They call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They cite Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 12. They celebrate it as the supreme evidence of divine contact.
Margaret Fairchild does the identical thing on camera. Same phenomenon. Same mechanics. Same involuntary surrender of the voice to an intelligence beyond the self. One variable changes: the identity her judges assign to the source. When the source wears their label, the tongue speaks heaven. When the source arrives from the stars, the tongue speaks hell. Doctrine, never evidence, decides the verdict.
The Film Answers the Charge
Spielberg built the rebuttal into his own script, and his accusers either missed it or chose blindness. The screenplay, which David Koepp wrote from Spielberg’s story, transposes the gifts list of 1 Corinthians 12 onto the contact experience: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, signs, and wonders, knowledge that arrives unbidden. The Gospel Coalition, hardly a friend of ufology, praised these parallels in its own review.
Then comes the scene that demolishes the possession charge. A woman witnesses Margaret’s abilities, crosses herself, and bows. Margaret refuses the gesture on the spot: “I will not be anyone’s religion.” Measure that moment against the demonology her critics profess. A demon, by its own catechism, craves worship and weaves deception. Margaret rejects worship and demands the truth reach seven billion people. The film stages the test that the demon lobby claims to apply, and its heroine passes. Her judges wrote their verdict before the lights dimmed.
A Framework Built to Convict
The aliens-as-demons thesis carries a structural flaw its champions mistake for a feature: no contact event can ever clear its bar. Benevolent visitors? Deception. Hostile visitors? Confirmation. Healing? Counterfeit miracle. Warning? Fear campaign. Silence? The calm before the deception. Every possible observation routes to the same conclusion, which means the framework explains nothing and convicts everything. Science calls that unfalsifiable. Journalism calls it a closed loop. I call it what it has been since preachers assembled it in the 1970s and 1980s: a quarantine wall built to isolate the contactee and channeling communities from their own churches, their own families, and their own minds.
I watched that wall go up in real time. Across five decades in the experiencer community and more than 1,200 broadcast episodes, I have interviewed hundreds of contactees who received the same sentence Margaret receives in the film. Vice President JD Vance lent the thesis fresh oxygen when he endorsed it, and viral posts revived it the moment Spielberg’s CBS Sunday Morning interview aired on June 7. One clip, reframed by an anonymous account the next day, claimed the director set out to break Christian faith. Spielberg, a Jewish filmmaker, mentioned Christianity nowhere in the interview. The distortion, never the quote, fueled the fire.
What the Channel Reveals
Here, the story turns from defense to disclosure, because Margaret’s gift points at a truth the experiencer community has carried for generations: enhanced abilities travel with contact. Telepathy heads the list. Experiencers report mind-to-mind communication with the visitors and, afterward, with each other. Precognition, remote perception, spontaneous comprehension of unknown languages, the sudden mathematics that floods Daniel Kellner’s mind in the film: every one of these appears in the contact literature going back a century.
The ancient record explains why these gifts read as alien, even though they belong to us. The Anunnaki, the Sumerian gods of flesh and blood whom Zecharia Sitchin documented across decades of scholarship, engineered our species as a worker race and throttled the design. They switched off the faculties that would have made us their equals. The blueprint survives in our cells. Geneticists long dismissed some 97 percent of the human genome as junk DNA, a label that betrays the same arrogance as the demon verdict: whatever the priesthood fails to understand, the priesthood condemns or discards. That dormant code holds the switched-off circuitry of telepathy, expanded cognition, and full-spectrum perception. The visitors operate with their entire neural architecture engaged. We run on a fraction of ours, by design, and the design was imposed.
Contact flips the switches. Experiencers report it again and again: abilities wake after encounters, perception widens, the channel opens. Margaret Fairchild dramatizes on screen what thousands have lived off-screen. When humanity reaches full consciousness, we will access the whole library written in our own cells, and we will, in essence, know it all, because the knowledge was ours before anyone locked it away. Disclosure means more than government files. Disclosure means the restoration of the human design.
The Panic Belongs to a Faction
The final irony: the faithful at large feel no threat. Theologian Ted Peters of the Graduate Theological Union surveyed more than 1,300 believers across Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and secular populations in his landmark 2008 study. Over 80 percent across all traditions said that confirmed extraterrestrial life would leave their faith intact. The Vatican has affirmed that life beyond Earth fits Catholic theology. Rabbis and Muslim scholars reached the same conclusion from their own texts. The meltdown belongs to a narrow, loud faction whose business model requires a demon behind every light in the sky.
Spielberg told CBS that, after a lifetime of testimony and evidence, “they have been here, and they are here.” A Kansas City weather reporter opened her mouth, and the truth poured out in a tongue the world has yet to learn. Some heard demons. Some heard the Holy Spirit by another name. I heard something older than both labels: the sound of a species remembering its own voice.
Janet Kira Lessin hosts Disclosure NOW and We the Anunnaki on Aquarian Media. She studied with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 until his passing in 2010 and has produced more than 1,200 broadcast episodes on contact, consciousness, and the Anunnaki record.
