A former Canadian defense minister has declared on Russian TV that not only do aliens already walk amongst us but they are refusing to share their advanced technologies until we change our warring and polluting ways, according to UK MailOnline.
There are 80 different species of extra-terrestrials, according to Paul Hellyer, who was a liberal defense minister from 1963 to 1967 under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
Some of our modern technology such as the microchip, LED light and Kevlar vest have been created by the aliens, Hellyer said.
Some of whom "look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn't know if you walked past one," he told Russia Today's program SophieCo on Saturday.
Hellyer made a series of pronouncements in a bizarre interview about aliens which grew increasingly outlandish, according to UK MailOnline.
"We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades since we invented the atomic bomb," he said. "They are very concerned about that and that we might use it again, because the whole cosmos as a unity, and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos, they are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again."
Most of the aliens, however, want to help rather than destroy us, Hellyer told SophieCo.
"I would say that nearly all are benign and benevolent and they do want to help us, there may be one or two species which do not," he said.
Hellyer, 90, first went public with his belief in aliens on earth in 2005 and he is the first high ranking politician to publicly state that aliens are real, according to UK MailOnline.
Aliens have "been visiting our planet for thousands of years" and are rather unimpressed with how we live, Hellyer said. "We spend too much time fighting each other, we spend too much money on military expenditures and not enough on feeding the poor and looking after the homeless and sick.
"They would like to work with us and teach us better ways but only, I think, with our consent. They don't think we are good stewards of our planet. We are clear-cutting forests and polluting our rivers and our lakes. We are dumping sewage in the oceans. We are doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards should be doing and they don't like that," he said.
At times, Hellyer's pronouncements got a little too far-fetched as he talked about a "federation' of aliens that has a rule not to interfere in our affairs - much in the same way as Star Fleet follows a very similar prime directive."
"Our future as a species, and here I mean all of the species in the world, is potentially at risk if we don't figure what's going on and work together to try and make life more amenable for all of us, and to work with our neighbors from other planets as well," he said.
While Hellyer said he has never met an alien, but has seen a UFO near his cabin on Ontario's Lake Muskoka.
Hellyer described several types of aliens including "Tall Whites" who are working with the U.S. air force in Nevada, UK MailOnline reported.
"They're able to get away with that; they had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren't detected," he said.
According to UK MailOnline, these are some of Paul Hellyer's more outlandish pronouncements about aliens:
* Most aliens come from other star systems, although there are some living on Venus, Mars and Saturn's moon
* There have been four species of aliens visiting our planet for thousands of years
* There are between two and twelve total species of aliens (although some place the number closer to 80). Some look just like humans, while others appear more like the creatures portrayed in popular culture
* Most alien species have benevolent intentions toward humanity, although a handful have ulterior motives
* One alien species, known as the "Tall Whites" is working with the U.S. Air Force in Nevada and has been known to pass for humans in public
* The "federation" of alien species has vowed not to intervene in human affairs unless they are invited to
* The federation is disappointed in the way humans have treated the planet
* Aliens technology is far more advanced, but have given us LED lights, microchips and Kevlar vests
