Emily Blunt is a British-American actress whose connection to unidentified anomalous phenomena comes through her starring role in Steven Spielberg's 2026 film Disclosure Day and the interviews she gave while promoting it. She is not a researcher or witness; her relevance is as a prominent public voice who brought the film's themes of government secrecy and contact to a mainstream audience.

Born in London in 1983, Blunt rose to wide attention with The Devil Wears Prada in 2006 and went on to lead or co-star in The Young Victoria, Edge of Tomorrow, Sicario, A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns and The Fall Guy. She won a Golden Globe for the television film Gideon's Daughter and a Screen Actors Guild award for A Quiet Place, and she received an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in Oppenheimer. She became a United States citizen in 2015 and is married to actor and director John Krasinski.

In Disclosure Day, released by Universal on June 12, 2026, she plays Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City television meteorologist and former journalist, opposite Josh O'Connor as a whistleblower. The film opened at number one in North America and had earned about $241 million worldwide by early August. Early reactions singled out her performance, and she later won best actress in a science-fiction or fantasy film at the Critics' Choice Super Awards. Before release she told Empire that the film answers questions posed by Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Her press remarks drew attention in UFO circles. In a May 2026 interview she pointed to the recent discovery of a thousand new species in the oceans and asked why people would imagine they know everything that is out there, and of the witnesses she had watched in hearings and documentaries she said, "They know what they saw." Advocacy accounts presented this as her changing her mind about aliens, which was their framing rather than her words. She also said she created the clicking and humming alien language heard in the film herself after Spielberg offered a choice between doing it herself and using artificial intelligence; Spielberg later told ITV News that he would never have used AI.

Blunt's significance in the UAP record is as the lead of the most widely seen disclosure-themed film of 2026, whose sympathetic comments about witnesses gave the subject unusual mainstream visibility.