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A new White House URL is out of this world (wide web).
The eyebrow-raising domain name — “Aliens.gov” — has been added to the federal government’s official website registry, amplifying speculation that President Trump could be gearing up to pull back the curtain on what US intelligence agencies really know about whether we’re alone in the universe.
Though the website is not yet live, the government has reserved the domain name for an as-yet-unknown purpose, registry records show.
The revelation came after it was flagged by an automated tracker of new federal websites on Wednesday, almost exactly a month since the president said he would order top administration officials to identify and release government files related to UFOs and extraterrestrials.
“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last month.
The announcement sent federal agencies including the Pentagon and the White House scrambling, but no further information has been revealed about timetables or what if any classified information could be made public under the order.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a statement a few days later, carefully walking the line between complying with the order and not wanting to overpromise.
“We’ve got our people working on it right now. I don’t want to oversell how much time it will take, right?” he said, keeping the timeline deliberately vague.
“We’re digging in. We’re going to be in full compliance with that executive order, eager to provide that for the president,” he said.
As for whether he personally believes in little green men, Hegseth demurred, “We’ll see. I get to do the review and find out along with all of you.”
The Pentagon has long stuck to its guns that no definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life or UAPs have ever been discovered.
However, Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense intelligence during the Clinton and Bush administrations, told The Post last week that the federal government possesses a jaw-dropping trove of photos and videos — the release of which would elevate UFO discourse “to another level.”
“We have satellite imagery of craft that sure don’t look like anything that we have built or constructed,” Mellon said.
“There’s a significant number of videos from the same sources that were judged unclassified in 2018 — gun cameras on F18s, [Forward Looking Infrared Radar] videos — that have been withheld from the public,” he said.
“I know there are because I’ve seen some of them,” said Mellon, adding, “And there’s no rational reason that I can think of why those videos are being withheld.”
Former President Barack Obama said in a fence-sitting interview with progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen last month that aliens were “real” but conceded he personally hadn’t seen them.
“They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility—unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States,” the former president said.
After his comment led to a firestorm of online speculation, Obama backed off a bit from his remarks in an Instagram post.
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify,” he wrote.
“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
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