A former U.S. government consultant has claimed that former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reported Wednesday.

The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.

Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organized the showdown with the space creatures by sending out “telepathic messages,” the report said.

The two parties finally met up on three separate occasions at the Holloman Air Force base and there were “many witnesses,” it said.
Conspiracy theorists have circulated increased rumors in recent months that the meeting between the Commander-in-Chief and people from another planet took place.

But the claims from Good, a former U.S.
Congress and Pentagon consultant, are the first to be made publicly by a prominent academic, the newspaper said.

Speaking on Frank Skinner's BBC2 current affairs show Opinionated, he said that governments around the world have been in regular contact with aliens for many decades.

“Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life,” he added.

Asked why the aliens don't go to somebody “important” like Barack Obama, he said: “Well, certainly I can tell you that in 1954, President Eisenhower had three encounters, set up meetings with aliens, which took place at certain Air Force bases including Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico.”

Eisenhower, who was president from 1953 to 1961, is known to have had a strong belief in life on other planets.