New Delhi: An ex-Israeli general and current professor Haim Eshed has said in an interview that aliens are real and that Donald Trump was about to reveal this before. In an interview with Yediot Aharonot, a Hebrew newspaper, Haim Eshed, the former head of Israel’s Defense Ministry’s space directorate, said that humans have been in contact with the aliens from a “galactic federation”. Eshed claims that the extraterrestrial beings had asked not to be revealed until humanity was ready as it would have caused mass hysteria. “They have been waiting for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where we will generally understand what space and spaceships are,” said Eshed.

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The former space security chief also said that US President Donald Trump was aware of the existence of the aliens and was on the verge of revealing it. He said, “Trump was on the verge of revealing [aliens existence], but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying, ‘Wait, let people calm down first’. They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.”

When Eshed was asked why he was revealing this now, he said that it was because the academic landscape has evolved and that he is in academia. “If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalised,” he said. “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.”

Eshed further said, “There’s an agreement between the US 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.”

In 2018, Trump had issued an order to create an American space command. In May, according to media reports Trump had said that space will be the future, both in terms of defence and offence and that the US was the leader on space.