NEW DELHI: A former Israeli space security chief, Haim Eshed, made an astonishing claim in an interview, when he said that aliens exist and the US government has kept it a secret because “humanity is not ready for them”.
In an interview with local Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, 87-year-old Haim Eshed revealed that there is “an agreement” between the US government and a “galactic federation” of aliens, as they wish to research and understand “the fabric of the universe”. This co-operation apparently includes a secret underground base on Mars.
Further, he revealed that US President Donald Trump knows about the aliens but has stopped short of revealing their existence because the ‘galactic federation’ has insisted that “humanity is not ready yet”.
Parts of the interview from Friday, originally in Hebrew, were published in the English daily Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The retired officer spoke extensively on extraterrestrial life and said that the aliens are equally curious about humanity. “The aliens have insisted humans need to “evolve and reach a stage where we will…understand what space and spaceships are,” he said.
Eshed, who headed Israel’s space security program for nearly 30 years, has made similar claims in his book, The Universe Beyond the Horizon. “If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalised,” he further said.
While there has been no reaction from the US government or Donald Trump regarding the subject, social media has been flooded ever since the interview was published. People also posted memes and shared jokes.
A social media user wrote on Twitter: “As if 2020 could not get any weirder, prominent Israeli general & professor Haim Eshed claims the U.S. and Israel have been in contact with aliens for years. On his disclosure: “I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards; I am respected in universities abroad.”
Last year, the US President had officially launched a full-fledged Pentagon force for combat in outer space, which is the first new military service in seven decades.
The US space agency, NASA, has not completely dismissed the possibility of life beyond earth.