Kansas City UFO investigator: Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ film ‘100% accurate’
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- Kay says almost everything in the movie is 100% accurate.
- Kay is director of Missouri’s chapter of the Mutual UFO Network and praises the film.
- Kay has nearly 40 years investigating UFO sightings and has authored about a dozen books.
A longtime UFO investigator in Kansas City says Steven Spielberg’s new movie about extraterrestrials rings true with what she knows and has learned about ETs.
“Oh my gosh. It is so realistic and a lot of what they put in there, almost everything they put in there that (ET) experiencers go through, is 100% accurate,” said Margie Kay, director of the Missouri chapter of the national Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON.
“Spielberg has an interest in this subject, obviously. But he really, really did his research.”
MUFON is one of the oldest and largest groups of civilians who investigate and document reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and ET encounters.
Kay, who saw her first UFO when she was a teenager, has investigated sightings for nearly 40 years. She has written about a dozen books about UFOs and other unexplained phenomenon. She’s also a private investigator who has worked on unsolved crime cases.
“Disclosure Day” is built on the premise the U.S. government is hiding decades of extraterrestrial activity here and possibly ETs themselves from the public.
The movie appears to be responsible for an uptick in reports this year of UFO sightings and other unexplained activities submitted to MUFON on its website, mufon.com.
The group accepts reports from the public in two categories: UFO sightings, and non-human contacts and abductions.
Last year, 17% of those reports concerned alleged abductions or ET sightings, according to Kay. This year, 33% so far have been about ET sightings — depicted in “Disclosure Day” — and abductions, Kay said.
“We’re getting calls from people who have seen things, not even recent things but sightings from 30, 40 years ago, and very interesting sightings as well,” said Kay, who also oversees seven Midwest states as MUFON’s central region director.
“And the other thing we’re getting is new field investigators, which is great because we desperately need field investigators, especially in the Midwest area.”
As a MUFON investigator, Kay interviews people and examines photos, videos and other evidence of reported extracurricular activity. Not every report of an unidentified flying object turns out to be unidentifiable.
Years ago she dispelled reports of UFOs in the area by chalking them up to stunt planes and a B-52 bomber flying over a Kansas City Chiefs game.
She couldn’t explain other sightings in that busy month of October 2011, including some kind of craft hovering over a water tower in Raytown — and tiny balls of white light that appeared out of a Lee’s Summit treeline and reportedly played with a dog.
That same month she investigated a reported “close encounter” at 63rd Street and Interstate 435 involving a giant craft, screaming children and a man being sprayed with a green substance. Two people filmed the incident, but both videos had 20-minute gaps, Kay has described.
Americans today are more apt to believe in unexplained phenomenon than they were when she began investigating ETs and UFOs.
UFOs are mainstream now, thanks in part to the government sharing and declassifying more intel and videos like ones several years ago showing U.S. military jets encountering unknown aircraft that maneuvered unlike anything pilots had ever seen.
Kay and her colleagues took it as confirmation of what they have contended for years: the phenomena are real and there’s definitely something unexplained happening.
Spielberg said in interviews for this new film that he “absolutely” believes aliens have been here, and are here.”
Today, according to surveys in recent years by the Pew Research Center, 65% of American adults say intelligent life exists beyond Earth and 51% say UFOs are not a threat to national security. Americans are not inclined to think that UFOs and ETs are hostile, either.
Six people who say they have experienced close encounters with aliens will speak at an online forum from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday that Kay has helped organize.
Stigma still lingers
Still, for some people saying out loud they’ve had a close encounter is tough.
In an interview with The Star in 2021, Kay described how the stigma around UFOs was so strong that some people don’t even want their own families to know they’ve seen something odd in the sky or elsewhere.
“They don’t want people to think that they’re nuts,” she said at the time. “Especially people who live in rural areas. They’re much more tight-lipped.
“I’ve gone on sites investigating UFOs, crop circles, cattle mutilations and Sasquatch on the same ranch and they will never go public with this. All over the state.”
She recently traveled to Oklahoma to interview a 41-year-old man who wanted to disclose something unusual he saw three decades ago when he was 10.
The man said he and his brother and parents were outside their house one night, around 11 p.m., watching the Perseid meteor shower, “and they noticed this light coming at them from some distance away and it just came towards them very, very slowly.” Kay said.
Thinking it was a slow-moving plane, they didn’t pay much attention.
“But as it got closer and they realized how slow it was going, then they were all watching that instead of the Perseid,” she said.
As it approached they saw that it was shaped like a triangle or chevron with lights on the corners and sides, the man told Kay.
“And it just moved right over their heads, extremely slowly,” she said. “It could not have been a normal type of aircraft and that left them with an impression that they still talk about today.”
They didn’t tell anyone because they didn’t know who to tell and only recently discovered MUFON, Kay said. “And that’s one of the big problems,” she said. “People don’t know where to go to report. We just have to get out there more.”
Abundant ET sightings in Missouri
Kay is not surprised that “Disclosure Day,” which was not filmed here, is set in a fictionalized Kansas City. Missouri is a known hot spot for UFO sightings; Kansas City is the No. 1 spot for them in the state.
“Kansas City is a major UFO hot spot. It is always in the top 10 and usually in the top three or four for the whole United States for sightings, and we have less population than some of the other states that are always reporting,” said Kay.
For instance for years there have been reports of unexplained activity in the sky above the corkscrew spire of the Community of Christ Temple in Independence, where Kay lives.
UFOs and ETs are commonly reported near bodies of water and wooded areas, both of which are plentiful in the Show Me State.
Sightings reported to MUFON over the years suggest that Lake Jacomo near Blue Springs and Blue Springs Lake in Fleming Park between Lee’s Summit and Blue Springs are very active. More than a few people have reported unidentified flying objects flying in and out of Lake Jacomo.
For some still-unknown reason, reports of “strange events” along the Interstate 44 corridor in Springfield have increased in recent years, Kay said.
“A few years ago we had these sightings of extremely long, cigar-shaped craft with square windows on the sides in multiple sites across the state, and some all at the same time so it couldn’t have been just one,” she said.
“It had to be multiples of these different types of craft, and a lot of them were right along I-44. It was very strange.”
In the movie, Emily Blunt plays a Kansas City meteorologist who inexplicably begins speaking in a weird, clicking sound on air, a language that only one other person who hears it can understand. She later realizes that she encountered alien beings as a little girl.
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“Steven Spielberg, you know he knows this subject matter because absolutely all of the different things that happen to people in the movie, like a deer face morphing into an ET face ... the deer is a cloaking mechanism just like owls are typically cloaking mechanisms,” said Kay.
“We know in ufology that that happens a lot, that is typical. But the general public doesn’t know that. The things he included in there, the clicking sounds, I mean when I heard that I just froze because I have personally heard that myself.
“I heard it outside my house in the driveway and I heard it in my bedroom between two different entities I could not see. But I heard them communicating by the clicking sound ... very creepy.”
“I told my close, close friends in the business” about it, she said. “And yeah they were a little freaked, but you know, a lot of us in MUFON, and ufologists, there’s a reason why we’re in it. Because we’ve had our own experiences. Most of, not all of us.”
She was a teenager when she saw her first UFO while driving with her family through Oklahoma. It was silver, shaped like a cigar, with no wings or tail, flying alongside them just above the treetops, about 1,000 feet from their car.
Years later while living in Seattle, she was with family again watching shooting stars when a bright light appeared high above their parked car. At first, Kay thought it was a satellite. But then, the object stopped. Then another object came up behind it, then three more.
The instant that fifth object joined the others, she says it shot off at a 90-degree angle to the right and the family fled.
The incidents with the clicking noises she heard at home in Independence happened within the last two years. She hasn’t heard the creepy sound since.
When she saw the trailer for the movie featuring Blunt speaking in clicks, “I just froze,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is gonna be real. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.”
Dabbling in a little conspiracy theory, she wonders whether “Disclosure Day” signals that the government is on the verge of disclosing even more intel about extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
She and her MUFON colleagues believe “Disclosure Day” will stoke public interest amongst Americans who don’t seem as interested in — or even phased by — alien life as they once were, despite recent presidential promises to release “very interesting” UFO files.
They expect some kind of big, public disclosure on July 8, the date in 1947 a front page headline in the Roswell Daily Record newspaper in New Mexico famously trumpeted the news that Roswell Army Air Field captured a “flying saucer” on a local ranch.
Within 24 hours, in the middle of the public storm the story created, the U.S. military said the so-called “flying saucer” described in its press release turned out to be a weather balloon that had crashed.
Spielberg recreated the discovery of the craft in “Disclosure Day.”
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