The alien.gov and aliens.gov domains were registered by the White House in mid-March 2026, hosted on Cloudflare, with no public content at registration time. They are the first visible implementation artifact of donald-trump’s February 2026 uap-disclosure directive (src-uap-trump-disclosure-2026).
Notable facts
- Registered Tuesday evening ~March 17, 2026 during a federal appropriations lapse that had paused new .gov requests
- Neither domain served content at time of registration
- Pentagon referred questions about the domains to the White House; WH spokeswoman Anna Kelly responded only “Stay tuned!” with an alien emoji — echoing one pete-hegseth had used
- cisa manages the .gov registry but does not audit domain content
- aliens.gov was first spotted by an automated .gov-tracking bot
Status check — 2026-04-16
All four variants (alien.gov, aliens.gov, and www. forms) return TLS certificate-mismatch errors (ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID), indicating no configured web service. News coverage through April 15, 2026 continues to describe the domains as registered but not live — no UAP reporting portal, aaro integration, or document drop in the roughly four weeks since registration.
Open questions
- What content will the portal serve (case reports? document drops? reporting form?)
- Will it integrate with aaro’s planned public reporting expansion?
- Relationship to uap-reporting-infrastructure
Relationship to PURSUE (May 2026)
On May 8, 2026, the department-of-war launched the actual operational UAP records portal at war.gov/UFO under the pursue program — making alien.gov / aliens.gov the still-dormant branding-layer parallel to PURSUE’s substantive document repository. Whether the alien-gov domains will eventually point to the PURSUE portal, host complementary content, or remain unused is unresolved. See src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05.