A Politician Who Says She Was Abducted By Aliens Is Now Running For Congress

A 59-year old Republican congressional candidate in Florida says she’s learned a lot during her life. This includes the spaceship ride she swears she took with aliens when she was a just a little girl.

Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera is an entrepreneur and running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The congressional hopeful said that she has remained in contact with three of the aliens responsible for her abduction (one male and two females) since the extraterrestrial joyride when she was 7 years old, according to a resurfaced 2009 television interview.

“I went in,” Rodriguez Aguilera told America TeVe. “There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship – not like airplanes.” The video is in Spanish and there are no subtitles, but it can be seen below.

“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. “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.”

Rodriguez Aguilera, a former councilwoman in Doral who announced her candidacy last August, said the aliens were reminiscent of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero. She also claimed that she learned several interesting facts during her encounters with the extraterrestrials, including that’s the world’s “energy center” is in Africa and that a popular limestone tourist attraction in Miami-Dade County called Coral Castle is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

Rodriguez Aguilera said she’s raised about $10,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter, an underwhelming amount she attributed to a stoppage in her campaign due to Hurricane Irma. On her website, Rodriguez Aguilera describes herself as an “entrepreneur, educator and community leader” with more than three decades of experience in the private and public sectors. Rodriguez Aguilera has trained people in more than 19 countries on “business and leadership,” according to her website, which makes no reference to extraterrestrial travel claims. But her claims about alien abduction may be problematic for her at the polls.

She got into details that are not very mainstream,” Attorney Rick Yabor,  a political commentator in south Florida told the Miami Herald. “Someone who’s running for Congress – you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts … Miami politics are unusual. This one takes it to a new level.”