White House Quietly Purchases Aliens.Gov Website Domain

This has the internet talking!

On Wednesday afternoon, it was disclosed that the White House has purchased two domains that involve aliens.

The first domain that was purchased was aliens.gov, and the second was aliens.gov.

Take a look:

As reporting by Steven Greenstreet:

‘The White House and the Executive Office of the President has registered the websites https://t.co/BZK9dh18Kh and https://t.co/vp3nMhvH8d‘ pic.twitter.com/PI4WlFS2Gq

— Christopher Sharp (@ChrisUKSharp) March 18, 2026

Yahoo News reported more on the White House buying the domains:

The Executive Office of the President quietly registered the domain aliens.gov on Wednesday, just after 6:30 a.m.—and while the site sits empty for now, the move didn’t go unnoticed. A domain-monitoring bot flagged the registration.

No website, no announcement, no explanation. Just a domain. Decrypt has reached out to the White House for comment, and will update this story if we hear anything back. 404 Media first reported on the registration, following the bot flag.

The registration comes roughly a month after Trump posted on Truth Social that he would direct the Defense Department and other federal agencies to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” all government files related to alien life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and UFOs.

That announcement was itself triggered by something stranger: a podcast clip of Barack Obama saying, offhandedly, that aliens are “real.” Obama later clarified on Instagram that he was talking about statistical probability—the universe is big, life probably exists somewhere—and that he saw zero evidence of extraterrestrials making contact during his presidency. “Really!” he added, as if anticipating the chaos that would follow.

Earlier in the year, President Trump chastised Obama for discussing aliens because the information was classified.

Take a look:

BREAKING: Trump says Obama made a “big mistake” by revealing “classified information” that aliens are real.pic.twitter.com/Dv9UvmxkHa

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) February 19, 2026

Here’s what Trump was responding to:

Barack Obama on aliens: “They’re real”

“But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/c6t0DYxewU

— UAP James (@UAPJames) February 14, 2026

PBS reported that President Trump previously ordered the Pentagon to release all the files it had on aliens:

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.”

Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “I don’t know if they’re real or not,” and said of Obama, “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”

In a post on his social media platform Thursday night, Trump said he was directing government agencies to release files related “to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

Obama, who made his comments in a podcast appearance over the weekend, later clarified that he had not seen evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” but said, “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”