From The Final Call Newspaper

Pentagon official admits to existence of ‘mothership’ that releases ‘small probes’

By Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer
- March 21, 2023





When referring to “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs) or “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), American scholars and officials within the American government are getting closer and closer to the language first brought to the public by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught of the objects as early as the 1930s, before they were on the American government’s radar. He identified a “Mother Plane” or “Mother Wheel” that carried within her 1,500 smaller wheels, or “baby planes.”

“Master Fard Muhammad came to us from the Holy City of Mecca in Arabia. He pointed out to me a dreadful looking Plane a half-a-mile by a half-a-mile. It was made after the universe, of spheres: ‘wheels within wheels,’” according to early writings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

In similar language coming over 90 years later, Dr. Abraham “Avi” Loeb, an astrophysicist and head of Harvard University’s Galileo Project, and Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (A.A.R.O.), noted in a draft version of a research report: “A multitude of tiny devices can be released from a mothership that passes near Earth."



The report, titled “Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” was published on March 7. In it, Mr. Loeb and Mr. Kirkpatrick write on “the possibility that an artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions.”




They refer to those “probes” as “dandelion seeds” that “could be separated from the parent craft” by either the gravitational force of the sun or by a maneuvering capability. With proper design, the tiny probes would reach the earth or other planets “as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation,” they write.

“Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them,” they add.

Their words are in line with what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has taught of the Mother Plane and the baby planes. On page 242 of his book, “The Fall of America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes on the “evasive and elusive power” of The Wheel. “The Mother Plane can hide behind other stars and make herself invisible to the eye because she does not have to wait on a power from the earth. She can produce her own power to go wherever she desires to go in space,” he writes.

Mr. Loeb and Mr. Kirkpatrick also talk of the “probes” being able to recharge or refuel via the earth’s atmosphere.

Indeed, on page 237 of the same book, “The Fall of America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “Allah (God) Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praises are due forever, [He] taught me that after six months to a year, the Mother Plane comes into the gravity of the earth. It takes on oxygen and hydrogen in order to permit it to stay out of the earth’s gravity until it needs refueling again.”

And in a Muhammad Speaks article, titled “O’ Wheel: Mother of Planes,” published on September 7, 1973, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “THE WHEEL is capable of sitting up above earth’s atmosphere for a whole year before coming down into earth’s atmosphere to take on more oxygen and hydrogen for the crew who are on this [Mother] Plane.”



The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his chief student, has taught on his teacher’s words for decades, constantly warning America and her people of the wheel-like objects sitting above their heads.

Memphis-based Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad, author of the book “UFOs And The Nation Of Islam: The Source, Proof, And Reality Of The Wheels,” noted to The Final Call that the admissions from the Pentagon “simply confirm what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Honorable Minister Farrakhan (and) the Nation of Islam have been teaching all this time.”

“It is ironically strange that even the terminology of ‘mothership’ that is being used, that nomenclature is inherent to the Nation of Islam. And nobody from the Pentagon, to the White House, on down to the local news stations, want to give credit to the source of this phenomena that has baffled their world,” he stated.

“I say it all the time, in the Nation of Islam, we don’t approach this subject of so-called UFOs as speculators, nor do we approach this subject as theorists. Rather, we are those who represent an authoritative voice on this subject, because it was us who introduced this topic and this reality to the world.”

Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, stated boldly during the Nation of Islam’s weekly mosque meeting at Mosque Maryam in Chicago on March 12, “God brings proof. God brings evidence.”

“Now, they are admitting, but God is forcing them to admit, because He’s making His city in the sky show up,” he said.

He quoted the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in saying that one day, the American people would turn on their televisions and radios and they would say, “Elijah Muhammad told me the truth.”


A United States Coast Guard photographer, Shell R. Alpert, took a photograph that allegedly shows unidentified flying objects flying in a “V” formation at the Salem, Massachusetts, air station at 9:35 a.m. on 16 July 1952, through a window screen. (Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph: 5554. Library of Congress Control Number: 2007680837)

“Now it’s all coming. They know that there is a larger plane, out of which comes these smaller objects. Look how God proves His man. So anyone that has doubts, now He makes the enemy acknowledge, not in secret, not on just some website on the internet, no. Mainstream,” he said.

He described the pilots of the wheels as friends of Black people. “That is a part of the power that backs not only Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, but the Honorable Elijah Muhmmad said our people need to know the power that backs them. So all of those wheel-like objects, those are your brothers. They are your friends,” he said.

Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad called those who are making the recent admissions “hypocrites” for their failure to credit the Nation of Islam.

“It is no coincidence that the government is making these admissions, and it’s also no coincidence that they are deliberately leaving out the Nation of Islam. That’s the hypocritical part of this,” he said. “It is one thing to admit that these planes exist. That’s easy, because all the data shows that these planes exist. That’s nothing that they should be applauded for. We can applaud when they admit that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Farrakhan have been right and exact this entire time.”

The recent admissions come after a flurry of activity in America’s political arena concerning the topic of “UAP.” In February, 14 senators sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon pushing for full funding of the AARO, the newly established office to track “unidentified objects.” Funding would allow the office to “resolve threats and hazards to the U.S., while also offering increased transparency to the American people and reducing the stigma,” the lawmakers wrote.


This image made from video shows unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state filmed by Mexican Air Force pilots on March 5, 2004, according to a Defense Department spokesman. A series of brightly lit, rapidly moving objects filmed in the skies over Mexico could have been caused by a scientific phenomenon involving gases in the atmosphere, a scientist said Thursday, May 13, 2004. (AP Photo)

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us years ago about their purpose, and their purpose for these types of funding was to try to set up some type of base, whether it was a base on the moon or in space somewhere, so that they can try to track and monitor and even try to make a move on the Wheel,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad explained. “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad also stated that that would be suicide for America, or White powers, to do so.”

On page 237 of “The Fall of America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes of the White scientists, “They want to attack and destroy it (the Mother Plane); but if a plane did get close enough to attempt to carry out this purpose, it would be destroyed instead. The White man has learned that this is not a plane to be played with. Planes come out of the Mother Plane.”

“If the government is truly concerned about the truth of UFO disclosure, then they should fund and seek out those of us who know what these claims are, which is the Nation of Islam,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad stated.

He recently released the first episode of a five to 10-episode documentary series titled, “Answered.” He said the purpose of the documentary is to “give solid answers as to what these planes are, the power behind it, the purpose, the intent.”

The first episode is a prelude that gives an introductory overview of the reality of the wheels.

“Even though we didn’t even attempt to get very deep into the first episode, many have suggested that even with the first episode, the information is so clear that it still leaves no room for argument and opposition,” he said.