The federal government quietly registered two new internet domains — Alien.gov and Aliens.gov — earlier this week, triggering a wave of speculation across the country about what the Trump administration may be preparing to reveal about extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena.
Both domains were registered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday, March 17, according to get.gov, the registry CISA manages to request, approve, and administer government websites.
Public data managed by CISA reveals that both sites are hosted on Cloudflare servers.
Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that hosts a wide range of major commercial websites.
As of the time of this writing, neither website is live. Visiting the URLs results in an error message.
The federal government has offered no official explanation for the registrations.
When pressed for answers, the White House did not offer details.
White House Principal Deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said, “Stay tuned!” including an alien emoji after her message.
The Pentagon referred questions about the registration of the new .gov domains, the content they will support, and whether this marks a change in the government’s plans for public UAP reporting options — to the White House.
A banner on get.gov notes that due to a lapse in federal funding, new domain requests are not being processed, yet the agency registered the alien-themed domains during that same period.
DefenseScoop reported that a bot that tracks .gov domains first spotted the registrations, and the arrival of the domains was first reported by 404 Media.
The domain registrations arrive weeks after President Donald Trump made a public commitment to release government files tied to the UFO and extraterrestrial subject matter.
Citing “tremendous interest” in the subject, Trump directed the Secretary of War and other pertinent agencies to start identifying and disclosing any UFO-related files. \
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth responded to Trump’s original disclosure promise by reposting it with an alien emoji on social media.
Hegseth later addressed where the declassification effort stands. “We’ve got our people working on it right now,” said Hegseth.
“I don’t want to oversell how much time it will take, right? We’re digging in. We’re going to be in full compliance with that executive order, eager to provide that for the President.”
Trump’s public push for disclosure followed comments made by former President Barack Obama.
Resist the Mainstream previously reported that Obama said on a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen that he believes extraterrestrial life exists, but has never seen evidence of it.
Trump criticized Obama for releasing “classified information,” RTM highlighted.
Newsweek noted that Trump has since said he does not know whether aliens exist but has continued to reference the issue publicly.
Some UAP-related government documents have already entered the public record.
In 2023, former President Joe Biden signed a bill that required the National Archives and Records Administration to create a collection of government files about UAPs.
Some of these records are available for viewing on the National Archives website. Under the law, the National Archives must also gather information about “technologies of unknown origin and nonhuman intelligence.” However, the measure still allows government agencies to keep records classified.
