Trump White House Registers Aliens.gov—Is the UFO File Drop Imminent?

The Executive Office of the President softly registered the domain aliens.gov connected Wednesday, conscionable aft 6:30 a.m.—and portion the tract sits bare for now, the determination didn't spell unnoticed. A domain-monitoring bot flagged the registration.

No website, nary announcement, nary explanation. Just a domain. 404 Media archetypal reported connected the registration, pursuing the bot flag.

In effect to questioning, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Decrypt to "stay tuned," which was accompanied by a smiling alien emoji.

The registration comes astir a period aft Trump posted connected Truth Social that helium would nonstop the Defense Department and different national agencies to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" each authorities files related to alien life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and UFOs.

That announcement was itself triggered by thing stranger: a podcast clip of Barack Obama saying, offhandedly, that aliens are "real." Obama aboriginal clarified connected Instagram that helium was talking astir statistical probability—the beingness is big, beingness astir apt exists somewhere—and that helium saw zero grounds of extraterrestrials making interaction during his presidency. "Really!" helium added, arsenic if anticipating the chaos that would follow.

It didn't matter. The clip went viral. Reporters cornered Trump connected Air Force One. And Trump, alternatively than cooling things down, poured gasoline connected the fire.

"Well, helium gave classified information. He's not expected to beryllium doing that," Trump told Fox News newsman Peter Doocy aboard the plane. When pressed connected whether helium personally believed successful aliens, Trump said, "I don't cognize if they're existent oregon not. I don't person an sentiment connected it. I ne'er speech astir it."

Doocy noted that the president tin declassify thing helium wants. Trump grinned. "I whitethorn get him retired of occupation by declassifying," helium said. A bushed later, helium added, "We cognize amerciable aliens. Yeah. Illegal. Only illegals."

The Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which has been moving UFO investigations since 2022, presently has over 2,000 progressive cases connected the books. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responded to Trump's Truth Social station with an alien emoji and a saluting emoji—which is either precise comic oregon profoundly unsettling, depending connected your priors.

No authoritative authorities probe has ever produced grounds of extraterrestrial exertion oregon life, contempt occasional comments from officials that person fueled conspiracy theories. Sean Kirkpatrick, the archetypal manager of AARO, told Scientific American helium expects immoderate record merchandise to incorporate "no caller revelations."

Some critics—including Republican congressman Thomas Massie—have suggested the full UFO propulsion is simply a distraction from the still-unfinished Epstein files release.

Whether aliens.gov becomes a existent transparency portal, a blank page, oregon a redirect to a borderline enforcement run isn't wide yet. But registering the domain is the benignant of determination that signals thing is coming—even if cipher successful Washington volition accidental what, oregon when. The information is retired there.

Editor's note: Adds effect from White House White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly