DORAL, Fla. - A congressional candidate from South Florida claims to have once flown aboard a spaceship. 
 
 Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera has announced her intention to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. 
 
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 But in a YouTube video released several years ago, Rodriguez Aguilera discusses how she was once on an alien spaceship. 
 
 She also claims that she was visited by extraterrestrials when she was a girl and communicated with them telepathically several times in her life. 
 
 Rodriguez Aguilera told Local 10 News that she felt attacked by the Miami Herald, which first reported her alien encounter. 
 
 "The Miami Herald article is clearly an attack piece," she said. "It ignores to mention I have dedicated over 40 years of my life as a business owner, teacher, economic developer, vice mayor and community advocate and instead emphasis in a negative way in an experience I had when I was 7 years old. 
 
 "Like the majority of Americans and scientists, I believe there is intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in this universe. I will continue my work in the community, as I have done for over four decades, and focus on being a positive force to my fellow residents." 
 
 Rodriguez Aguilera also spoke briefly to Local 10 News reporter Carlos Suarez, but she would not elaborate on her extraterrestrial experiences outside of her statement. 
 
 "I'm just going to keep on focusing on the community and what I've done and what I'm doing, and everyone that knows me knows that that is what I am and that is what I will continue to be doing," she said. 
 
 When asked about her stance on the Affordable Care Act and U.S.-Cuba relations, the congressional candidate said she needs more time to take a position on the issues. 
 
 "I have to look more deeply into that," Rodriguez Aguilera said. 
 
 Rodriguez Aguilera previously served as vice mayor of Doral. The Republican is seeking to fill the seat being vacated by Ros-Lehtinen, who has served in Congress since 1989. 
 
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 City of Doral, Florida economic development manager and candidate for City Council, claims she has been abducted by aliens since the age of seven. But these aliens are not green, no, they're blond and blue eyed, of course!!!! Let's get serious here, do we want an alien-trotting member on the Doral Council??? Haven't they made a big enough mess already to now have another lunatic trying to make decisions about our City??? If aliens are really talking to her and giving her the wisdom of the ages, what is the heck is she doing running for Doral City Council? Shouldn't she be president or head of the UN? and why doesn;t she invite them to help us solve some our energy problems, water pollution, the cure for cancer? Geeez ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| The interactive transcript could not be loaded. 
 
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– ET, phone … Miami? The Miami Herald reports on a GOP congressional candidate out of the South Florida city who once said she's remained in contact with aliens (though telepathically, not by phone) ever since she was abducted at age 7 by "three blond, big-bodied beings" who took her into their ship. Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera's remarks about her interactions with the otherworldly creatures—one male and two females—were made years ago in two separate interviews, and she came back from the experience with intriguing nuggets. She said once inside the alien ship, which had "round seats" and "quartz rock" controls, she found herself "going up" to an unspecified place. WPLG notes she's served as the vice mayor of Doral and that she wants to fill the seat of retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The Herald notes her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is VP Pence's deputy chief of staff. Among the tidbits she said the aliens let her in on: that Africa is Earth's "energy center," there's a stockpile of 30,000 non-human skulls buried in a Malta cave, and "God is a universal energy." She also mentioned the aliens brought up Isis (though again, it's unclear whether she/they meant the Egyptian goddess or the terror group). When the Herald asked her Friday about her ET experience, she didn't talk specifically about that, but instead referenced Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan as reporting they'd witnessed UFOs and added, "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." A Miami attorney who says it's "odd" she would speak publicly about this notes, "Miami politics are unusual. This one takes it to a new level."