Americans can research information on immigration encounters after the White House launched aliens.gov on May 28.
The extraterrestrial-themed website latched onto the hype around newly declassified UFO files to promote a page that featured data about illegal immigrant arrests across the nation.
“They don’t belong here,” the White House wrote in an X post on Thursday. “The truth has dropped. Aliens.Gov.”
Curious social media scrollers quickly realized that the website was not the highly anticipated third drop of declassified UFO files by the Department of War, but instead was an interactive map that showed where illegal immigrants were arrested in the United States since President Donald Trump entered his second term in January 2025.
Some of the hotspots include Florida, parts of eastern and southern Texas, southern California, Arizona, Georgia, and the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
For example, the map showed that 17,323 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Dallas since Trump’s second term started in January 2025, and it detailed what charges they faced, if the suspects were affiliated with a gang, and what their country of origin was.
“Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives,” the website’s homepage states.
“They’ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences. With one exception—they do not belong here.”
The website alleged that over 3.1 million “encounters” have happened since Trump took office, which is a nod to the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration work.
In the first year of Trump’s second term, his administration’s immigration enforcement prompted 2.2 million people to self-deport as federal officers deported over 675,000 others, according to a press release by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in January 2026.
At the bottom of the White House’s new alien home page, the administration urged citizens to report illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
“If you’ve witnessed an Alien abduction, do not be alarmed,” the website reads. “The Alien is in good hands. We will take care of it. … and return it safely to its place of origin.”
The new website debuted two days after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed the DHS was “drawing up plans” to halt customs and immigration processing at airports in sanctuary cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration efforts.
“We are currently—which we’re not initiating yet—but we’re currently drawing up plans,” Mullin said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on May 26.
Aldgra Fredly contributed to this report.
