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Ex-Israeli space program head claims aliens exist and Trump is aware

Haim Eshed told an Israeli newspaper that the US government had struck an "agreement" with the extraterrestrials.

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Haim Eshed, seen here in a 2008 photo, has caused a stir with statements about aliens from outer space. — Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies/Wikimedia

A former Israeli space security chief has made headlines for saying that not only does a “Galactic Federation’” of aliens exist, but that President Donald Trump knows about it. 

"The unidentified flying objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet," Haim Eshed, former chief of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate, told the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot

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