Main points
- The Trump administration registered the domains alien.gov and aliens.gov.
- Presumably, they are intended for the publication of data about UFOs, in accordance with the presidential directive.
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The Trump administration has taken the first technical step toward fulfilling its campaign promise. Signs have emerged online that it is preparing an official platform that will serve as a hub for publishing previously classified data on unidentified anomalous phenomena. The registration of new government domains has sparked a wave of debate about the scale of the future declassification of information.
What secrets of space could become public?
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has detected new addresses in the government registry. These are the domains alien.gov and aliens.gov, which were recently registered and are currently under the direct management of the Executive Office of the President. Although the sites were not yet available to users at the time of registration, technical data indicates that they are hosted on Cloudflare servers, DefenseScoop writes.
This move came shortly after Donald Trump officially ordered the process of identifying and releasing files related to extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects to begin.
The impetus for such decisions was the resonant statements of former President Barack Obama during an interview, the Daily Mail notes. Then he answered in the affirmative when asked about the reality of the existence of aliens, although he later clarified his words, noting that during his time in power he had not seen any direct evidence of contacts with extraterrestrial beings.
A snippet of the same interview in which Barack Obama talks about the existence of aliens: watch the video
Donald Trump sharply criticized such statements, accusing his predecessor of disclosing classified information. He promised to use his powers to declassify all available documents to correct Obama's mistake and provide answers to questions of interest to society. The president emphasized that due to the enormous interest in this topic, it is time to reveal the truth about strange objects in the sky and sea.
Trump's response to Obama's statements: watch the video
Work begins
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the Pentagon has already begun active work on implementing the presidential directive. He assured the department of its full readiness to cooperate and provide the necessary data, although there is currently no specific deadline for completing this large-scale review.
According to the minister, military and intelligence agencies are searching for all relevant information that has been accumulated over decades. It is worth noting that the US Department of Defense already has a special office, AARO, created in 2022 to study anomalous phenomena. This unit analyzes cases that pose a threat to security and already has its own resource for collecting reports from military personnel and pilots.
According to plans, all new materials about unidentified anomalous phenomena will later be posted on the official resource of the US National Archives. Although the Pentagon previously stated that it had no physical evidence of extraterrestrial technology, the military acknowledged the existence of dozens of cases with anomalous characteristics that cannot be explained by standard methods.
It is not yet known when the sites will be launched and whether there will actually be two of them, or whether the second domain was registered to avoid errors when entering the address. When asked about the purpose of creating the new resources, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly advised to wait for further updates, adding an alien emoji to her answer.
The alien problem
Aliens and UFOs, now often referred to as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” have been a hot topic in the news for the past few years. US Senator Chuck Schumer has been pushing for the declassification of government reports on strange luminous objects in the sky, writes 404 Media. Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge's “To The Stars” initiative has released Pentagon videos showing Navy pilots seeing strange objects. Meanwhile, Congress has repeatedly held hearings trying to understand the phenomenon.
Interest waned somewhat last year when The Wall Street Journal reported that much of the information we now possess is tied to a deliberate Pentagon disinformation campaign.