Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain as Next Distraction From Everything Else

Whoever takes office after the end of the Trump administration (assuming that happens) is going to need to hire some dedicated webmasters, because these guys just keep adding new domains. The latest, as first caught by a bot that monitors federal domain registrations and reported by 404 Media, is aliens.gov.

There is no website associated with the domain yet, so who knows what it’ll ultimately be used for—there’s a non-zero chance that it’s something deeply gross and xenophobic. But the registration does come about one month after Trump instructed federal agencies to release government files related to aliens and unidentified flying objects.

The federal government has danced around disclosures about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) for years now. In 2022, the Biden administration created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) under the Department of Defense, which is meant to serve as a sort of clearinghouse for all claims of unexplained phenomena. It has investigated at least 366 new reports of UFO activity since its creation, and published a report on historical records kept by the Pentagon, which claimed that there is no evidence of alien visits or hidden spacecraft in government files.

Despite this, getting information out of the government regarding UAPs has been like pulling teeth. Famously, in 2020, the Pentagon released several videos to the public showing unidentified flying objects—and that seemingly only happened because Blink-182 vocalist Tom DeLonge leaked them to the public first. Politicians have attempted to lead efforts to declassify more information regarding UAPs and have held hearings on the matter, but publicly available information remains sparse.

Assuming the aliens.gov domain is indeed a sign that the Trump administration is gearing up to dump the files, it seems fitting that the impetus for doing so isn’t transparency but rather spite. Earlier this year, former President Barack Obama told Brian Tyler Cohen during a podcast interview that aliens are real. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept […] in Area 51,” he said. “There’s no underground facility. Unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.” (He later walked back the statement, clarifying, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”)

That led to Trump accusing Obama of disclosing classified information, which people took as confirmation that aliens are, in fact, real and the government has evidence of it. Following that interaction, Trump announced plans to push for the release of information about UFOs. We’ll chalk it up to a coincidence that the release of that information would probably serve as a distraction from the war on Iran, which served as a distraction from ICE murdering American citizens, which served as a distraction from the Epstein files. Kinda running out of levers to pull here, guys.