Ex-commander of the Israeli Space Program says, Yep: aliens are visting Earth (weird news).

Professor Haim Eshed, the ex-head of the Israeli Space Program, has just released an interview with Israel’s most distinguished newspaper, the Yediot Aharonot, where he follows up on the Pentagon release of UFO (UAP) chase footage where he says that aliens are indeed visiting the solar system and Earth.

Professor Haim Eshed is 87, and ran the Israeli Space Program for thirty years, reaching the rank of General (he started as a decorated combat pilot), before going on to teach aeronautics and astronautics in his country’s top universities.

In a frank interview, when asked why he was coming forward, the Professor admitted that at 87 he was arriving at the end of his life and there is not much anyone can do to sanction him now. 

“If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalized. Today, they’re already talking differently. I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards; I am respected in universities abroad, where the trend is also changing,” Professor Eshed told Yediot.

His understanding of matters is that there are several intelligent species operating in an Association of Sentience (although this is being translated from Hebrew to English as Galactic Federation which sounds a lot pulpier). The USA is the primary conduit of contact for these races because the US was the first to invent the atomic bomb, sparking concern amongst the Association that humanity was about to nuke ourselves into oblivion in a bout of senseless global warfare. 

He says that the key reason why the USA hasn’t been more open about these issues is that the aliens themselves have asked for their existence to be kept out of the public discourse because they believe that the mass population isn’t ready for the psychological impact of advanced external forces operating outside the Earth (nice to know our alien friends are moral enough to have something like the Prime Directive in operation).

“They have been waiting for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where we will generally understand what space and spaceships are,” the Professor noted in his interview. “There’s an agreement between the U.S. government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here. They, too, are researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe, and they want us as helpers. There’s an underground base in the depths of Mars, where their representatives are, and also our American astronauts.”

It will be interesting to speculate if the claims about a Martian base tie into the infamous Gary McKinnon hack of NASA and the US government servers, where Gary said he found a directory of Air Force staff with offworld designations, along with photos of odd-looking craft in orbit, leading to a six-year battle between the British courts and the American establishment desperate to bung the hacker into a supermax prison on their side of the big pond.

It would also be interesting to ponder whether China’s fascination with having the biggest telescope array on the planet to scan the Galaxy for signs of alien life might have much to do with the fact that the USA was supposedly picked in the 1950s as the most significant superpower to be a conduit for contact. You can imagine the CCP being kind of annoyed about that, right, if they are anyway inside the loop on matters extraterrestrial?

You have to wonder whether this continual drip-drip of disclosures such as The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), UFO chase videos, and now this from the Professor, is a general attempt to prepare the ground for further revelations. Not so much the American president standing in front of a lectern and admitting, “My fellow Americans, we are not alone!’, but more of a gradual easing into the public consciousness of a state of affairs which would have seemed stark raving blooming bonkers a few years ago.

If this is the case, then I think it might well be time to put science fiction authors such as Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Hunt, and Kim Stanley Robinson on a civil retainer for their services to mankind in preparing humanity for the existence of advanced aliens we can sit down and have a drink of Saurian brandy with.

This rather bizarre and notable news from such an impressive individual as the long-term leader of a national space program was quickly picked up by the Tim Pool Show, one of the most popular YouTube Channels whose fodder is normally the wallop and bash of energetic American politics. You can watch their talking heads go to town on this story for over an hour on video, below. It’s not always the most informed commentary (c. Beavis and Butt-Head), but it is fairly engaging nevertheless.

Story Update: Now picked up elsewhere, here, here, and here.