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Steven Spielberg isn’t just the director of several classic movies featuring aliens. He’s also a believer.

His father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer and big science fiction reader who “put it into my mind that we are not alone,” the Oscar winner told E! News ahead of the June 12 release of Disclosure Day, his fifth film about extraterrestrials in our midst. “He wasn’t talking about Earth, he was talking about the cosmos.”

But while Spielberg “was born believing that out there life exists, intelligent life exists,” he didn’t just take his dad’s word for it.

Rather, he continued, “It really became consistently truthful. As I got older and older, I started believing that something really is going on that we’re not being told.”

And he’s listening to the experts here on Earth, too, the 79-year-old telling CBS News that, based on “everybody I’ve listened to and every documentary I’ve ever watched and all the testimonies in Congress that I’ve heard, I absolutely think that they have been here, and they are here. And who knows, maybe they’ve always been here.”