The White House registered Aliens.gov and the Press Secretary responded with a smiling alien emoji

The Executive Office of the President quietly registered the domain aliens.gov on Wednesday morning just after 6:30 AM. No website. No announcement. No explanation. Just a domain sitting there pointing at nothing while a bot flagged the registration and the internet immediately lost its mind.

When asked about Aliens.gov, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told reporters to “stay tuned” and accompanied the response with a smiling alien emoji. That is where we are as a country right now.

This all started about a month ago when 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, and UFOs.

That post was itself triggered by something genuinely strange. A podcast clip of Barack Obama casually saying that aliens are real went viral. Obama immediately clarified on Instagram that he was talking about statistical probability, that the universe is enormous and life probably exists somewhere out there, and that he personally saw zero evidence of extraterrestrials making contact during his presidency.

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He was right. Nobody listened. The clip took over the internet. Reporters cornered Trump on Air Force One and instead of tamping things down, Trump told Fox News that Obama gave classified information and probably should not have said what he said.

When asked if he believed in aliens, Trump said he had no opinion and never talked about it, then immediately grinned and said he might declassify things to get Obama out of trouble. Then he added “We know illegal aliens. Yeah. Illegal. Only illegals.”

All of this happened in one Air Force One conversation.

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The Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has over 2,000 active UAP cases on the books right now. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responded to Trump’s original Truth Social post with an alien emoji and a saluting emoji.

Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of that office, told Scientific American he expects any file release to contain no new revelations.

Republican congressman Thomas Massie has noted that the entire UFO push is a convenient distraction from the still-unfinished Epstein files release, which is a take that requires absolutely zero conspiracy thinking to arrive at.

Aliens.gov is currently an empty website.

Stay tuned and keep an eye on Aliens.gov, apparently.

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