White House registers new ‘alien’-related .gov domains as DOD tackles Trump’s disclosure directive
The White House registered two new government domains this week: alien.gov and aliens.gov, according to publicly available federal records.
Their appearance comes about one month after President Donald Trump announced plans to direct the long-anticipated release of U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings.
Those new domains were not connected to websites as of Wednesday morning. But public data managed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reveals that both sites were registered Tuesday evening and are hosted on Cloudflare servers.
Shortly after Trump’s disclosure order in February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was keen to comply and had started actively working on the initiative.
Defense Department leadership set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 during the Biden administration to detect and investigate UAP, which is the modern term for UFOs that accounts for perplexing maritime and transmedium objects.
AARO’s launch was sparked by mounting public concerns about national security risks associated with unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Officials inside the office are working to resolve an ever-growing caseload of DOD-related UAP reports. They’re also conducting activities to improve flight safety and synchronize efforts across the military regarding unexplained objects in the air, sea and space.
AARO maintains a website that serves as a central hub for federal UAP information. The office is currently accepting reports about suspected UAP encounters — specifically from current or former U.S. government employees, military personnel, and contractors — with plans to expand to the general public sometime in the future.
A Pentagon spokesperson referred questions from DefenseScoop on Wednesday to the White House regarding the registration of these new .gov domains, the content they will support, and whether this marks a change in the government’s plans for public UAP reporting options.
Shortly after the initial publication of this article, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told DefenseScoop in an emailed response to those questions to “Stay tuned!”
Her statement included the same alien emoji that Hegseth used on social media when he reposted Trump’s promise last month to publish previously undisclosed records about extraterrestrials and unidentified craft.
Notably, both domains were launched while the government is not accepting new .gov domain requests, due to a lapse in federal funding.
On Thursday, CISA’s Acting Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Chris Butera told DefenseScoop that the agency manages the .gov registry to ensure that only verified U.S.-based government organizations receive these trusted domains.
“CISA does not generally review or audit how government organizations use their registered domains and does not control content on all .gov websites,” Butera said.
The arrival of aliens.gov was previously reported by 404 Media and first spotted by a bot that tracks .gov domains.
Updated on March 18, 2026, at 4:25 PM and March 19, 2026, at 7:05 PM: This story was updated to add a comment from White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly and remove a paragraph about the possibility that the domains were related to the administration’s immigration policies; and later to include a response from CISA.
