The Department of War launched a new public website this week featuring what it called "never-before-seen files" related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, following a directive from President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social in February.
The site, hosted at war.gov/UFO, displays a carousel of images and downloadable PDFs drawn from the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, and other federal agencies. The DOW said it plans to add material on a rolling basis. The page is designed in a style that leans into the visual language of UFO fandom, though clicking through its contents reveals little in the way of hard evidence pointing to alien contact.
Trump's February post called on the DOW and related agencies to begin releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects. The new website appears to be a direct result of that order.
The files were assembled in part with help from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, an organization currently operating inside the DOW. That office is the latest in a series of government groups tasked with investigating unexplained aerial encounters. The program traces its institutional roots back to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, known as AATIP, which was formed in 2007 to study UAP and disbanded in 2012, though its work continued under other task forces.
Public suspicion that the federal government knows more about unidentified phenomena than it discloses has circulated for decades. The existence of formal government research on the subject did not become official until 2017, when AATIP was revealed publicly for the first time.
Some Pentagon UAP footage was declassified during Trump's first term. A subsequent government report ruled that the videos, though unexplained, did not show alien spacecraft. The new DOW release does not appear to change that conclusion, according to reporting by Engadget, though officials have not explicitly addressed the question.
The website's presentation is more notable for showing how federal bureaucracies catalog and process unexplained events than for providing any definitive answers about extraterrestrial life. Researchers and enthusiasts who have spent years pressing for broader government disclosure are likely to find the release incomplete.
No timeline has been given for how frequently new material will be added to the site.
