Walker Jeff 2005, an anonymous source sent a series of emails to a UFO discussion group headed by former U.S. government official Victor Martinez.
These emails detailed the existence of an Exchange Program between the U.S. government and the Ebens, alien beings from Serpo, a planet from the Zeta Reticuli star system. Thus, the program was named Project Serpo.
The source identified himself as a retired government employee, stating that he was involved in the special program.
The program had its origins in two UFO crashes in New Mexico in 1947, the famous Roswell incident and another in Corona, California.
He claimed that one alien survived the crash and was transferred to Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other six deceased aliens were placed in a freezer at the same lab.
After establishing contact with scientists and military personnel, the survivor gave them the location of his home planet and continued to cooperate until his death in 1952.
The alien provided information about items found inside crashed UFOs. One of the items was a communication device that he was allowed to use to communicate with his home planet.
The rendezvous was set for April 1964, when the alien craft landed near Alamogordo, New Mexico. After retrieving the bodies of their dead comrades, the aliens engaged in an exchange of information, which was conducted in English thanks to an alien translator device.
One thing led to another, and in 1965 the aliens agreed to take a group of humans back to their planet as part of an exchange program.
Twelve military personnel were carefully selected for a ten-year stay on Serpo. The ten men and two women were specialists in various fields, and their task was to gather as much information as possible about all aspects of life, society, and technology on the alien planet.
They were three years too late, and were four men short when they finally returned in 1978. Two men died on the alien planet. One man and one woman decided to stay. The journey to Serpo, located 37 light years from Earth, took only nine months aboard an alien ship.
They learned that Serpo was a planet similar to our own, though smaller. It orbited a double star system and had an atmosphere similar in composition to Earth’s.
However, two suns meant that radiation levels were higher and the twelve had to resort to protection at all times. Two of them died from complications. The heat was extreme and it took the remaining humans several years to adapt.
Another problem was food. The crew took enough food to last two and a half years, but in the end they had to resort to Eben’s local food. Anyone who has traveled overseas knows the serious gastrointestinal effects of eating local food, but the human crew eventually adapted.
Another problem was the length of the day on Serpo, which was 43 Earth hours. In addition, it never became completely dark as their night sky was dimly lit by the lesser sun. The crew had complete freedom to explore the alien planet and nothing was in their way.
The geology of the alien world was different; there were few mountains and no oceans. There were a few species of plant life, but mostly near the polar regions where it was cooler.
There were animal species as well, and some of the larger ones were used by the Ebens for work and other tasks, but never as food sources. They produced food through industrial processes, of which they had many.
The people of Serpo lived in small communities at the head of a large city. They had no central government, but seemed to get along just fine without one.
The Ebens had leadership and an army, but the Earth team noticed that they never used weapons of any kind, and violence was almost unheard of. They had no concept of money or trade. Each Eben was given items according to their needs.
The planet had a population of about 650,000 individuals. The human crew noted that the Ebens were disciplined in all aspects of their lives, working on a schedule based on the movement of their suns. There were no other civilizations on Serpo other than the Ebens.
Their method of reproduction was similar to ours, but had a much lower success rate. Therefore, their children were highly isolated.
In fact, the only problem the human team faced was that they intended to photograph the Eben children. The army took them away and asked them not to make any more such attempts.
Upon returning to Earth, the remaining eight members of the expedition were quarantined for a year. During this period they were interrogated and the full report amounted to about 3,000 pages.
All members of the expedition have since died from various complications caused by radiation exposure. The fate of the two men who chose to remain on Serpo is unknown. The Ebenians have not contacted Earth since 1985.
