A Republican congressional candidate in Florida says she’s learned a lot on her travels — including the spaceship ride she took with aliens when she was a just a little girl.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera — a 59-year-old entrepreneur running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen — said she remained in contact with three aliens, 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.”
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 fun facts during her encounters with them, 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 declined to directly address the alleged encounters when contacted Friday by the Miami Herald, telling the newspaper that she has a “strong belief in God” and believes that there is more life out in cosmos.
“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 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 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, Rodirguez 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 extraterrestrial travel claims.
Attorney Rick Yabor, a political commentator in south Florida, thinks her detailed account may be problematic at the polls — even in today’s political climate.
“She got into details that are not very mainstream,” Yabor 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.”