Bizarre! Aliens exist, have secret agreement with US government, claims Israel’s former space security chief

Israel's former space security chief Haim Eshed has made an unprecedented claim that aliens exist and that US President Donald Trump knows about it.

Haim Eshed (87), in an interview to Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper, spoke extensively about the extraterrestrial life, and also elaborated about "an agreement" between the US government and a "Galactic Federation" of aliens as they wish to research and understand "the fabric of the universe".

Eshed had headed Israel's space security programme for nearly three decades, according to reports.

Donald Trump stopped short of revealing their existence because the “Galactic Federation” insisted "humanity is not ready yet", Eshed is believed to have told the daily. The aliens insisted humans need to "evolve and reach a stage where we will... understand what space and spaceships are".

"If I had come up with what I'm saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalized," he further said. He has made similar claims in his book The Universe Beyond the Horizon - conversations with Professor Haim Eshed.

Several users took to Twitter to post tongue-in-cheek remarks after the interview came to light, with the hashtag #aliens trending on the micro-blogging site.