Brief
Haim Eshed
The claims the writer was given for Haim Eshed, in the order they were given.
1
Chris Ramsay considers Gary McKinnon's account, along with that of Haim Eshed, one of the few corroborating anecdotal pieces of evidence for the existence of a secret space program.
“It's one of the few other corroborating sort of anecdotal pieces of evidence that we have confirming this secret space program other than perhaps Haim Eshed, who also mentions this as well.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 00:46:49.8-00:47:02.6 opinion first hand
2
Haim Eshed, the former Israel Space Agency boss, made allegations in an interview with an Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper of a Galactic Federation, of recovered craft, and of United States collaboration in the recovery and reverse engineering of non-human technology.
“the claims of Haim Eshed, the former Israeli space agency boss, who very controversially gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper, Hebrew language newspaper, in which he made extraordinary allegations of a galactic federation of recovered craft, of US collaboration in the recovery of and reverse engineering of non-human technology”
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3
Ross Coulthart was not sure he would feel 100% confident about Haim Eshed's mental capacities after watching the video interview with Uri Geller.
“I wasn't quite sure that I would feel 100% about Haim's mental capacities.”
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4
Haim Eshed's book provoked huge international interest when it was published, although it has never been translated into English.
“when that book came out, it provoked international, huge international interest, although it's never been translated into English.”
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5
Jonathan Caplan had Haim Eshed's book translated from Hebrew.
“I did get it translated from Hebrew.”
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6
Haim Eshed's book describes the Galactic Federation as a group of Non-Human Intelligences (NHI) who have humanity's best interests at heart and who are in touch with the Americans and some other countries.
“there's a group called the Galactic Federation. It's a group of NHIs who have our best interests at heart and who are in touch with the Americans and some other countries.”
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7
Haim Eshed's book discusses other crashes of non-human craft that are not well known.
“he goes on in the book, in fact, to talk about other crashes, which aren't well known.”
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8
Haim Eshed examined in detail photographs transmitted from the Martian surface and stated he could detect artificial structures in some of those photographs.
“he talks about examining in great detail photographs that have come back from what landed on the Martian surface and transmitted photographs and how he can detect from some of those photographs artificial structures.”
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9
Jonathan Caplan travelled to Israel and tried to contact Haim Eshed, who was not speaking to anybody.
“So I did go to Israel. I tried to contact him. He wasn't speaking to anybody.”
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10
Jonathan Caplan contacted the journalist who co-wrote Haim Eshed's book, who told him she was not allowed to speak about the book.
“I contacted the journalist who co-wrote the book with him. She told me that she wasn't allowed to speak about the book.”
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11
Jonathan Caplan has no idea from where Haim Eshed might have got the information he claims about crashes and non-human intelligence contact.
“as time has gone on, I have no idea from where Haim Eshed might have got the information which he is claiming.”
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12
Paul Hellyer doubted the Galactic Federation story described by Haim Eshed, although he had confirmed that he was told many races have visited Earth.
“He doubted the Galactic Federation story, actually, although of course he's confirmed that he was told that many races have visited Earth.”
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13
Jonathan Caplan considers that it cannot be established that Haim Eshed received his claimed information officially, and that it should be taken with a degree of scepticism.
“Because I don't think we can establish that Haim Eshed has received this information officially, I think I'd have to say one should take it with a pinch of salt at the moment.”
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14
Jonathan Caplan reports some crashes described by Haim Eshed in his book that have not appeared elsewhere and may well be genuine.
“Some of them have, which I've reported in the book, haven't appeared elsewhere and they may well be genuine.”
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15
Jonathan Caplan considers Haim Eshed's claims about non-human intelligence contact to be Eshed's personal view rather than information he has been officially notified of.
“I think it's best to say that's his personal view rather than of information which he's been officially notified of.”
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