The Miami Herald endorsed a GOP congressional candidate in the primary for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s seat — brushing aside the contender’s "unusual" claims to have "communicated telepathically" with aliens — and been visited by them.
The newspaper on Sunday endorsed Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera as "a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas."
"Her bona fides as a former elected official, and now a businesswoman who spends time in other countries training women to run for office are solid," the editorial board wrote.
The board stated it also agreed with Rodriguez Aguilera that her history with alien beings was a "non-issue."
"Last year, she told the Miami Herald — and several Spanish-language media outlets — that she believes in extra-terrestrials," the editorial board stated. "She says when she was 7, she was taken aboard a spaceship and, throughout her life, she has communicated telepathically with the beings, which remind her of the concrete Christ in Brazil. There you have it."
McClatchy posted footage of Rodriguez Aguilera describing her visit aboard spaceship occupied by aliens when she was 7.
"I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes," Rodriguez said in the interview. She said she was visited by three large, blonde beings.
In a separate interview with the Herald last year, she said she joins "the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe," The Hill reported.
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