One of the most fantastic and controversial contacts is that surrounding Project Serpo. There is still much speculation as to whether this is a genuine Top Secret project or an elaborate hoax, however its supporters point to the authenticity of the data provided by the anonymous source, by validating many facts that are not in the public domain. If the source, a retired senior official within the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is to be believed, following the 1947 Roswell incident, in 1964, the US military sent a team of twelve scientists to a far away planet in the Zeta-Reticuli system at the invitation of its inhabitants: The Eben.

According to the anonymous source, one of the aliens, from the Roswell crash survived and was taken to Sandia Army Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico before being moved to Los Alamos. In time, the US military permitted the Eben visitor to communicate with his home planet and this developed into a dialogue between the two planets. The surviving Eban apparently died in 1952 but communications continued and in 1965, an exchange program was established between Earth and the Eban’s home planet.

It took the team nine months, travelling in the alien craft to reach the Eban planet, which the US Military named Serpo. Although they had problems acclimatising to their new environment, the team actually remained there for much longer than the ten years the mission was originally scheduled for, finally returning in 1978. The team consisted of two doctors; three scientists; two linguists; two security personnel; two pilots and was lead by an air force colonel. Only four of the team actually returned to Earth when the mission was completed, two members of the team actually died during the mission and four of the team elected to remain on the planet when their mission was over.