“Are we truly alone in the universe? You and I might not know the answer to that question, but a handful of people at the highest echelons of government have started to publicly talk about how seriously they take aliens. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been particularly vocal about this. ‘The federal government all these years has covered up [important information about UFOs], put brake pads on everything, stopped it,’ Reid said in The Phenomenon, a documentary that came out in October. ‘I think it’s very, very bad for our country.’ This month, Haim Eshed, who used to helm Israel’s Defense Ministry, came forth with even more jaw-dropping claims. He told Yediot Aharonot, an Israeli newspaper, that humans have made contact with aliens, and even formed a ‘galactic federation.'”

“Eshed, who ran Israel’s space program for almost 30 years, is perhaps the highest-ranking official in the military-industrial complex to make the case that humans are in contact with aliens. In the United States, no top official has said definitively that aliens are among us, but John Brennan, who ran the CIA during the Obama administration, is asking some pointed questions. ‘Life is defined in many different ways,’ John Brennan said in a conversation with economist (and podcaster) Tyler Cowen that was released Wednesday. ‘I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe … Some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.’ In other words, some of the UFO stuff could be aliens” – New York Magazine.