According to federal records, the United States government purchased two new domain names: alien.gov and aliens.gov. Now, all everyone wants to know is, why?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers shows that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, registered the alien-related domain names this week. CISA oversees the federal .gov domain system and registers domains on behalf of the U.S. government. Interestingly, due to a lapse in federal funding, CISA was not accepting new .gov domain requests when the government registered both of the domains.
According to 404 Media, a BlueSky bot that monitors federal domains initially discovered the registrations, though there isn’t currently a live website at either address.
When asked by the website DefenseScoop the reason for the registration of the alien-related domain names, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told them in an emailed response alongside an alien emoji to “Stay tuned!”
Spokespeople from CISA and the Pentagon did not respond to questions on Wednesday about the domain name registrations.
Do Trump’s recent orders tie to the alien-related domain name registrations?
The alien.gov and aliens.gov domain name registrations came shortly after President Donald Trump announced plans to declassify federal information on unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs, or what the government now calls UFOs) and alien life in a Truth Social post.
Citing “tremendous interest” in the subject, he directed the Secretary of War and other pertinent agencies to start identifying and disclosing any UFO-related files. However, what those files will contain remains a mystery.
“We’ve got our people working on it right now,” said War Secretary Pete 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.”
The timing of the alien-related domain name registrations is suspicious
The alien-related domain name registrations by the US government also come at a time when retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, who has been linked to UFO research, as well as one of his former colleagues, Monica Reza, have gone missing without a trace.
It also comes as Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon official, claims the United States government possesses significant evidence related to UFOs. This evidence, he claims, includes satellite images of multiple mysterious crafts.
“We have satellite imagery of craft that sure don’t look like anything that we have built or constructed,” Mellon told the New York Post. He added that these images show UFOs engaging in “actions that are difficult to explain.”