Dear Mr. Steven Spielberg

You got it wrong, Mac. 

Mr. MacDonald is staring hard a the cows in his paddock while kangaroos hop about choosing which morsels of paddock turf to uproot. 

I've never been to the Space Deck. Have you been to the Space Deck?

It's supported by Readers.

Take a pew. Hold the cast bar high.

Higher. Even higher. 

Stop fooling with the script. The soccer is on.

Well Eat Pray Love was a huge success so what can we follow on with?

Rabbits run rabble round rousing rouble roughians. It's a take on Disclosure Day.

Shoot the film. All Aliens on Earth are 100% correct. AAE100. An Earth Odessey.  

https://youtu.be/BurovR247oI?si=i3pfrAb53x4qDluG

Here is the clean, citation‑anchored answer to your query “Spielberg sequels Disclosure Day” — distilled into the three layers that matter: what is a sequel here, what isn’t, and what the cast/industry are signalling next.

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1. Disclosure Day is not a literal sequel — but Spielberg frames it as the final act of a 49‑year thematic trilogy

Spielberg has explicitly said that Disclosure Day is not a direct sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind or E.T.. Yahoo News Canada
But he does describe it as the third movement in a long arc of alien‑contact cinema:

• Act I: Close Encounters — first contact as world‑altering revelation. Yahoo
• Act II: E.T. — intimate, suburban, insulated encounter. Yahoo
• Act III: Disclosure Day — the truth finally becomes public, not hidden. Yahoo

This is a thematic trilogy, not a narrative one:
each film uses entirely different alien designs and shares no story continuity. Yahoo

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2. Spielberg rejects the fan theory that Disclosure Day is a Close Encounters sequel

Despite trailer imagery that resembled a Close Encounters callback, Spielberg states:

• “It is not a sequel in any way, shape, or form.” Yahoo News Canada
• The conspiratorial machinery differs:
  • Close Encounters: government secrecy
  • Disclosure Day: a deep‑state contracting company (Wardex) holding the archive of truth. Yahoo News Canada

He also notes that real‑world UAP hearings (2023) influenced the script’s language. Yahoo News Canada

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3. Cast members are already imagining a sequel — “Disclosure Day 2”

While Spielberg positions the film as a summation, the actors see open doors:

• Emily Blunt: “There’s more to explore after the credits roll.” Yahoo Lifestyle Australia
• Colin Firth: His antagonist Scanlon’s arc “doesn’t feel entirely resolved” and contains “enough ambiguity” for a sequel. Yahoo Lifestyle Australia
• Colman Domingo: Wants a sequel that moves “backwards and forwards in time.” Yahoo Lifestyle Australia

The film’s ending — the global broadcast of decades of alien‑contact evidence — deliberately opens a universe of possibilities. Yahoo Lifestyle Australia

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4. Industry context: Disclosure Day is performing like a franchise‑starter

The film opened to $93.9M globally, beating projections and marking Spielberg’s biggest opening for an original film. Yahoo Finance Australia
Studios notice numbers like that — especially when the film has no pre‑existing IP.

This creates a tension:

• Spielberg frames it as a culmination.
• The cast frames it as unfinished.
• The box office frames it as viable franchise territory.

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5. The short answer

Disclosure Day is not a sequel, but Spielberg treats it as the final chapter of a decades‑long thematic trilogy.
However, the cast — and the film’s ending — strongly suggest the possibility of a future sequel, even if Spielberg hasn’t committed to one.

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If you want, I can map this into:

• a dual‑panel studio diagram (thematic trilogy vs. potential sequel‑future),
• a glyph for “non‑sequel that behaves like a sequel,”
• or a blog‑ready paragraph for your current Blogger draft (I see the tab open).