The unique nanoporous structure of aerogel provides a rare opportunity to study the role of anisotropic disorder on an anisotropic superfluid ~(3)He. It has been proposed that uniaxial deformation of compliant aerogel would induce global anisotropy and a few compelling effects of global anisotropy on nature of the superfluid phases have been predicted. We measured high frequency shear acoustic impedance in superfluid ~(3)He at 32 bar in a commercially available 98percent porosity aerogel under uniaxial compression. At 5percent compression, we found evidence of an A-like phase stabilized in a wider temperature width than the A-like phase in uncompressed aerogel.
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