The Executive Office of the President, currently under Donald Trump, appears to have registered the domain name aliens.gov on Tuesday.
According to domain registry data, the registration was carried out by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which manages and secures federal digital infrastructure.
Records from GoDaddy show the domain was secured early in the day, though it was not live as of Wednesday evening and currently has no public-facing content.
The information about the website came out after it was spotted by an automated tool that tracks new US government websites.
The move comes after Trump, last month, said that he might release government files about aliens and UFOs. He made this statement after criticising former US President Barack Obama.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them and they’re not being kept […] in Area 51. There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States,” said Obama. He later clarified that he was not seriously confirming aliens on Earth. He said he was just going along with the quick, fun nature of the segment.
A few days after the controversy, Trump claimed Obama had revealed ‘classified information’ when he said aliens were ‘real’ during a podcast segment.
“Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not, I can tell you he gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake, he took it out of classified information,” Trump said.
Later, Trump in his Truth Social post, wrote that he wants the government to start releasing files related to UFOs and aliens as a lot of people are curious to know about them.
He wrote that he plans to ask different government departments and officials to find records about alien life and extraterrestrials, share information on UFOs and UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), and release any other connected information that the government has.