Brigadier General Haim Eshed — the founder of the Israeli space program, two-time recipient of the Israel Defense Prize for classified technological work, and one of the most credentialed national-security figures alive — has stated publicly and on the record that the United States and Israeli governments have been in active contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation for years, that an underground base exists on Mars where American astronauts work alongside non-human beings, and that President Donald Trump was personally talked out of disclosing all of this to the world.
87-year-old Professor Haim Eshed, who is widely considered the father of the Israeli military space program, made the revelations in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, published on 4 December 2020. He has won the Israel Security Award twice in his career for Confidential Technological Inventions and firmly believes — based, he says, on direct knowledge from his three decades inside the Israeli Defense Ministry — in the existence of aliens and in their working connection with the US government.
He was also the first director of the Challenge Program, a division of the Department of Defense’s Office of Weapons Research, Development, and Technology Infrastructure (Mapat). Eshed retired from the Defense Department in October 2011, having personally overseen the launch of twenty Israeli satellites during his thirty-year tenure as head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Space Directorate.
He has openly stated that if he had said anything like this a few years earlier, he would have been declared mentally unstable. Now, he says, the scenario has changed — and people are finally ready to receive the information.
The Agreement Between Earth and the Galactic Federation
Eshed has boldly declared that the US government is in contact with the aliens and has also come to a formal agreement with them. According to the General, the extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for a long time. Almost no one knows about their visits, because they themselves have asked the governments in their confidence to keep the information hidden from the public.
The reason given is one of readiness. Eshed says the visiting civilisations have judged that humanity is not yet prepared for confirmed contact — that if disclosure happened now, the result would be mass hysteria worldwide. The aliens want us to evolve a little further before they reveal themselves openly.
“Those who fly on UFOs have asked not to disclose that they are here because humanity is not ready yet. Trump was on the verge of revealing their existence, but aliens from the Galactic Federation persuaded him to wait until people calm down. They don’t want to create mass hysteria. They first want us to become reasonable and understanding.”
Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli space security
It is worth remembering that Donald Trump vowed to reveal the existence of extraterrestrial life in his first speech as president back in 2017. He hinted at the same disclosure on multiple occasions throughout his term. So what really stopped him?
“We are at the beginning of a new millennium. We will reveal the mysteries of space, rid the earth of disease, and protect the technologies of tomorrow.“
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Professor Eshed says that the representatives of the alien civilisations are aiming to make humanity more open, more understanding, and more intelligent before they reveal themselves. They hope that humans will learn more about space and its secrets, and that we will be able to travel to different planets ourselves before contact is made official.
“They are waiting for humanity to develop and reach the stage where we fully understand what space and spaceships are. There is an agreement between the US government and aliens. They signed a contract with aliens to conduct experiments here.”
Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli space security
The Underground Base On Mars
The single most striking claim in the Eshed interview — and the one the international press did its best to bury under headlines about the Galactic Federation — concerns Mars. According to the General, a working base exists beneath the surface of the Red Planet right now, jointly staffed by representatives of the visiting civilisations and by American astronauts.
“They, too, are exploring and trying to understand the entire structure of the universe, and they want us to be their helpers. In the bowels of Mars, there is an underground base where their representatives, as well as American astronauts, are located.“
Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli space security
If true, this single sentence rewrites everything the public has been told about the human presence in deep space. Officially, no human being has ever travelled further than the Moon. Officially, the entire human Mars program is robotic. Officially, every press release from NASA and from the private space companies frames a manned Mars mission as something still 10–20 years away.
Eshed is not the first credentialed source to claim that the official story is incomplete. Captain Kaye, a former US Marine, has stated publicly that he spent seventeen years protecting human colonies on Mars under a classified deep-black programme. John Lear, a veteran CIA-affiliated pilot, has stated on video that the United States controls alien technology and that there are colonies on both the Moon and Mars. The Eshed interview adds, to that already-long list, the voice of the man who built Israel’s national space programme.
Why The World Took Five Years To Catch Up
Eshed’s December 2020 interview did not happen in isolation. It is now, with the benefit of hindsight, recognisable as one of the first cracks in the wall of a much larger US disclosure cycle that has been unfolding steadily ever since.
- December 2017 — The New York Times publishes the investigation revealing the existence of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), based on disclosures by program director Luis Elizondo.
- December 2020 — Eshed gives his Yedioth Ahronoth interview.
- June 2021 — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases its UAP Preliminary Assessment, acknowledging 144 unexplained UAP encounters by US military personnel between 2004 and 2021.
- July 2023 — David Grusch, a former US intelligence officer, testifies under oath before Congress that the United States possesses recovered non-human craft and non-human biological remains.
- November 2023 — the Schumer Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act initially requires mandatory disclosure of all UAP-related materials held by the federal government, before being significantly diluted under pressure in conference committee.
Eshed’s interview predates almost the entire visible disclosure trajectory. Whether he was running ahead of it, or quietly triggering it, is a question that has never been publicly resolved.
Why No Official Body Has Refuted Him
The institutional response to Eshed’s interview was a study in what was not said.
NASA issued a one-sentence statement on 9 December 2020 stating that “NASA has not detected any evidence of extraterrestrial life and is not in contact with any extraterrestrial civilization.” Read it carefully. NASA addressed only what NASA itself has detected, and only what NASA itself has done. It did not address the existence of the Galactic Federation agreement. It did not address the Mars base. It did not address whether other branches of the US government — the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the deep-black aerospace contractors — might be in such contact.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense did not issue any public statement responding to the substance of Eshed’s claims, despite his three-decade prior service in the Ministry. Off-the-record briefings to Israeli reporters, as reported in Haaretz and Times of Israel, characterised Eshed only as a “respected professor expressing personal views in retirement” — a formulation that neither confirmed nor denied a single one of his specific statements.
The US State Department, Department of Defense, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond at all. Five full years have passed since Eshed gave the interview. No official body of any government has ever publicly refuted what he said.
“If I had told what I am saying today, five years ago, I would have been hospitalized. Wherever I went with this in academia, they would tell me: This man has lost his mind. Today they speak differently. I have nothing to lose. I have received degrees and awards, I am respected in foreign universities, where the trend is also changing.”
Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli space security
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Haim Eshed?
Haim Eshed is a retired Brigadier General of the Israel Defense Forces and former head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Space Directorate from 1981 to 2011. He oversaw the launch of approximately twenty Israeli satellites and was awarded the Israel Defense Prize twice for classified technological work. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering. By any conventional measure, he is one of the most credentialed national-security figures alive to have spoken publicly about alien contact.
What did Haim Eshed say about aliens?
In a December 2020 interview with the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Eshed stated that extraterrestrial civilisations have been in contact with the US and Israeli governments for years, that a formal agreement with what he called the “Galactic Federation” prevents public disclosure, and that an underground base on Mars hosts joint operations between American astronauts and non-human beings. He stated that President Trump was on the verge of revealing all of this before being talked out of it by the visiting civilisations themselves.
Did the U.S. government respond to Haim Eshed’s claims?
NASA issued a single sentence stating that NASA itself has not detected evidence of extraterrestrial life or contacted any extraterrestrial civilisation. The statement was carefully scoped to NASA alone and did not address the Galactic Federation agreement, the Mars base, or whether non-NASA branches of the US government might be in such contact. The State Department, Department of Defense, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond publicly. The Israeli Ministry of Defense did not respond publicly to the substance.
Is the “Galactic Federation” real?
According to Eshed — a man whose three-decade career at the operational centre of the Israeli space-security establishment is fully documented in the public record — it is. The term has also been used for decades in contactee and disclosure literature, which means either Eshed is borrowing existing language to describe something real, or the existing language was already pointing at what he is now confirming. Either reading places the Federation closer to reality than mainstream science is currently willing to admit.
Is Haim Eshed still alive?
Yes. As of 2026, Eshed is in his early 90s and continues to give occasional interviews to Israeli media. He has not retracted any of his original statements. In subsequent appearances, he has declined to provide additional specific details on the grounds that he is “not permitted to” do so — a phrasing that is rarely used by retired civilians and routinely used by men still operating under classified agreements.
Why is this case taken more seriously than typical UFO claims?
Three reasons. First, Eshed’s verifiable credentials place him at the operational centre of a major national space-security programme for thirty years — exactly the kind of source UFO disclosure has been waiting on for decades. Second, no official body of any government has refuted his specific claims in the five years since they were made — silence that, in disclosure cases, is rarely accidental. Third, his interview emerged shortly before a documented shift in US government posture on UAP, including the 2021 ODNI report, the 2023 Grusch testimony, and the 2023 Schumer Amendment. Either he was running ahead of disclosure, or he was the man who started it.
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