A congressional candidate running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen once said she was visited by aliens and they have communicated with her telepathically since then.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, said three blond, big-bodied beings visited her when she was 7 years old, McClatchy reported Monday.
Rodriguez Aguilera made the remarks during an interview in 2009 in which she described “going up” in the spaceship.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez Aguilera said.
She compared the aliens to the “Christ the Redeemer” statue in Rio de Janeiro, which has its arms outstretched.
Rodriguez Aguilera also said the extra terrestrials mentioned “Isis,” though it’s unclear if she meant the terrorist group or the ancient Egyptian goddess.
“For years people, including presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” she told the Miami Herald on Friday.
“I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
