The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, first learned of an object called the “Great Wheel” or “The Mother Plane” in the early 1930s from His teacher, The Great Mahdi and Allah in Person, Master Fard Muhammad. He first taught on this “Wheel” or “Mother Plane” in 1932.

Ten years later, on May 8, 1942, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad was arrested in Washington, D.C., on false charges of draft evasion.  Later in September 1942, law enforcement raided the Temple in Chicago and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s home.

“The Teachings that Master Fard Muhammad had left with him were taken from the home and The Temple.  Later, he was questioned by the F.B.I. on the drawing of The Wheel and his writing about it, that they had taken from The Temple,”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, said in Part 52 of his 58-week lecture series, “The Time and What Must be Done.”

Eighty-four years later to the very date, on May 8 of this year, the U.S. government released 162 files on what it calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), popularly known as “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs).

Though government officials have praised the release as a moment of transparency, the U.S. government still refuses to declassify the truth about the wheels and what it learned from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s documents.

Four files have been removed from the government’s online database since the release. The remaining 158 files contain documents, images and videos from the Department of State, the Department of Defense/Department of War, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.).

Files from the State Department include memorandums and diplomatic cables from several countries overseas; from the Defense Department, memorandums, correspondence, intelligence and mission reports, military “UAP” encounters and infrared/full motion videos from 1945 to January 1, 2026;

From the F.B.I., case files with investigative records, eyewitness testimonies and public records concerning “UAP” documented between 1947 and 1968, along with images from recent years; and from N.A.S.A., images and reports from astronauts on unexplained lights, dots and objects from the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s.

Though the government described the files as “new” and “never-before-seen,” in its May 8 news release, “UFOlogists” have taken to social media to point out that several of the files have been in the public domain for years. They also took issue with the content of the photos and videos.

“The general public sees UFOs all the time, and the UFOs that they describe are nothing like what’s in these files. They’re large craft …, that are hovering silently over people’s houses and that are doing dramatic things like accelerating off to the horizon in a split second or making right angle turns in a split second,”

Christian Stepien, chief technology officer with the National UFO Reporting Center, said to The Final Call. “There’s enough of those reports that come in over and over and over again that it’s almost impossible to believe that all these people are just making this stuff up or hallucinating it. So, the big question is, why is none of that in any of this government reveal?”

Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad, member of the Nation of Islam Research Group and author of “UFOs And The Nation Of Islam: The Source, Proof, And Reality Of The Wheels,” was not impressed with the U.S. government’s “disclosure” efforts and called the released videos “questionable.”

“I’ve seen more convincing videos that more clearly delineate these wheels that came from ordinary people and citizens than what the government released. It’s like they just gave us anything and expect the American people to accept it as authentic,” he said. “Don’t fall for their tricks of conflating the real wheels with the enemy’s crafts and concoctions that are designed to throw you off.” 

The truth about so-called UFOs

The origin of the wheels that the American people and the world witnessed for decades was revealed, taught, and explained nearly a century ago, in the early 1930s. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught of a “Great Wheel” or “Mother Plane” carrying 1,500 smaller planes (baby wheels or baby planes).

When He was arrested in 1942, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad explained to the U.S. government and the F.B.I. the aim and purpose of The Wheel, Who made it and why it is above America.

In Part 52 of “The Time and What Must be Done,” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan recounted the words of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad described The Wheel as “a masterpiece of mechanics and engineering” and said it is “the greatest military weapon ever developed in the annals of the history of Allah (God) and man in this universe.”

He shared information about the making of The Wheel, stating that it was made on the island of Nippon (Japan) by some of the finest brains of The Original People and that it sits above the U.S., 40 miles out of the Earth’s atmosphere in space.

“He said that the Vision of this Wheel was seen thousands of years before it came into being or became a reality.  He said that this weapon was made for the purpose of destroying this present world in The Final Battle with the forces of evil that had ruled our present world,” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said.

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that this Great Wheel was made for military purposes, for it was to engage in The Great ‘Battle in the Sky’ that would end this world and usher in that world that the prophets exclaimed would come at the end of the 6,000-year rule of the enemy of Allah (God) and the enemy of the Aboriginal People of the Earth.”

That 6,000-year ruler is the Caucasian White man whose time of rulership is now up.  In an article titled, “Ezekiel’s Wheel: Mother Plane—Battle In The Sky,” published in Muhammad Speaks newspaper on May 25, 1973, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote how the Caucasian has conquered both land and sea travel and is now casting his eyes into space.

He asked a series of questions inquiring about their motive: “What is their plan for wanting to land on the moon since they know they cannot make the moon their home? … Why are they spending billions of dollars just to go and look at these planets or try to land people on the moon?

What are their plans for Mars and Venus since they cannot live on these planets? Do they think these planets serve as great fortifications of God and they could cast their bombs on these planets and destroy them? … Do they think that they could fight God from the moon?”

In another article, dated June 8, 1973, titled “Ezekiel’s Wheel: The Battle in the Sky,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad shared how the “Black Scientists knew at the time they built the Mother Ship that the Mother Ship and its well-trained crew would have to fight with her (America) and the other Nations of the earth.”

“The well-trained crew of the Mother Ship, the Wheel, can dodge the enemy and make the enemy look for the Wheel where the Wheel is not.  As the word goes, the crew of the Wheel can elude the enemy anywhere in the sky that this crew desires to elude them,” He wrote.

This is the true reality of so-called “UFOs” or “UAPs” that the U.S. government has refused to share with the public.

The year 1945 is the earliest incident date marked in the government’s database contained with the newly released files. A few additional files are marked with the years 1947 and 1948. Noticeably missing is the year 1942.

Nation of Islam Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad, member of the Nation’s Shura Executive Council and N.O.I. Research Group, said the years 1945-1947 are the floor for the U.S. government, with 1942 lying in the basement.

“They don’t want to deal with 1942. Most ufology presents the ‘grandfather’ event as Roswell, July 4, 1947. But Roswell was not the ‘grandfather’ event of ufology. The so-called Battle of Los Angeles of February 1942 has a much greater claim,”

Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad said to The Final Call, referencing the U.S. military’s encounter with The Mother Wheel and baby planes off the coast of Los Angeles on February 24-25, 1942. During the event, the military fired more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at the flying crafts.

“The Wheel floated unbothered up the coast and back down the coast. This was the predicate for the arrest of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in May 1942,” in Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad’s view.

“This is the event that the current disclosure effort won’t touch.  So, it will stop at ‘47.  It’ll hover around ‘45, but ‘45 I’m suspecting is the floor they won’t go under,” Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad said.

Student Min. Ilia Rashad Muhammad accused the government of failing to publicly acknowledge what’s in their files about the interrogation of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad about the wheels.

Both he and Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad classified the government’s disclosure effort as a “limited hangout,” an intelligence operation where the government discloses a secret of minimal significance to hide a more important secret or to steer the public away from a greater truth. 

The secret of secondary importance is the advanced technology the wheels possess, display and demonstrate, which government officials and military personnel have testified to in congressional hearings and Pentagon reports describing a “mothership” that releases

“small probes” and flying crafts that can maneuver in any direction and accelerate at extreme speeds. But the secondary secret is drawing attention away from who first taught and revealed the origin and reality of the wheels, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.

“Government disclosure is truth serving deception,” Student Min. Dr. Wesley Muhammad stated.  “The government is willing to acknowledge some truth about the craft, the technology. 

What they are dead set against leaking, disclosing or even allowing the public to come anywhere close to a knowledge of is the reality of the of the pilots of the wheels.”

The government says this is just the first file drop and has communicated its plans to release more files on a rolling basis.  But Student Min. Ilia Rashad Muhammad questioned the credibility of the U.S. government as long as the true authority on the “UFO” topic is ignored.

“Any person objectively seeking true UFO disclosure should consult the source of this phenomenon. That source will lead you to the Nation of Islam,” he said.