(Republican) politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now shes running for Congress.

[HAB911]

WASHINGTON
Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.

A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials.

Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nelson served as payload officer aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986. All seven people aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)

Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, a Republican who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, recounted her experience with the ETs during a 2009 television interview.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html

[joeybee12]

1. She'll fit right in with the other Repuke nut jobs. Knr

[LunaSea]

2. Thanks again Florida..

Among the things she said she found out from the aliens:

▪ There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.

▪ The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.

▪ The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

▪ “God is a universal energy.”

She also said that the aliens had mentioned Isis, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.

[flakey_foont]

3. Sounds like one of the sane Republicans

3 blonde, big bodied beings visited her? Sounds like she went to an ABBA concert

[Angry Dragon]

4. Nothing wrong with riding with aliens

“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 said. “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.”

I don't know if the majority of Americans believe that there are aliens...............

http://www.futurity.org/extraterrestrial-life-religion-773862/
Public opinion polling indicates that about one fifth to one third of the American public believes that extraterrestrials exist, Weintraub reports. However, this varies considerably with religious affiliation.

55 percent of Atheists
44 percent of Muslims
37 percent of Jews
36 percent of Hindus
32 percent of Christians

https://www.indy100.com/article/more-people-believe-in-aliens-and-ghosts-than-god--xJ3xFtsaIe
Today in unnerving statistics, a poll has found more Britons believe in aliens and ghosts than God.

[Orrex]

7. "Today in unnerving statistics, a poll has found more Britons believe in aliens & ghosts than God.

I don't find that unnerving at all--quite the opposite, in fact. Most people don't claim to derive absolute moral authority from ghosts or aliens.

[Angry Dragon]

9. good point

[left-of-center2012]

5. Didn't Nixon show Jackie Gleason the body of a space alien?

Jackie Gleason says Nixon showed him ETs

http://www.openminds.tv/gleason-ets/5978

[Orrex]

6. And then the aliens were deported.

Heigh-o!

[dalton99a]

8. She could tell them to take the crazy asshole

[meow2u3]

10. This wack job should be running for outer space, not Congress

She really belongs in a psychiatric hospital, rubber room and all. We don't need any more escaped inmates in the halls of Congress.

[gopiscrap]

11. OMG there's a lot of mental insanity in the GOP

[Achilleaze]

12. I, for one, do not welcome our new Republican Abductee Overlords

[longship]

13. It's simple: hypnagogic hallucinations.

They are actually fairly common. I've had at least one instance. They are a bit scary, but thankfully I knew about them before I experienced it. When I fully awoke, I thought to myself, "So that's what hypnagogia is like!"

Hypnagogia (Wiki)

But you've got to be some kind of kook to think they are real.

[StatGirl]

14. DMT

I read a book some time ago called "DMT: The Spirit Molecule," by Rick Strassman, who did some very interesting research involving intravenously giving DMT to volunteers.

The most striking thing to me was that the volunteers described experiences which sounded a lot like alien abductions.

[TeamPooka]

15. Still not the craziest republican out there. nt

[lagomorph777]

16. Could she persuade her ET friends to take the GOP Congress for a ride?

And not come back?

Please?

[Brother Buzz]

17. When I read Miami Herald I was expecting to see a Carl Hiaasen byline

You just know Carl Hiaasen will be working this character into his next novel.

Then again, I can visualize Tim Dorsey's, Serge A. Storms hooking up with this one for the 'Mother-of-all road trips'.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

18. In 1947 the space aliens let one loose.

[Fritz Walter]

19. By the most staggering coincidence...

I heard the TED Radio Hour within a few minutes after seeing this post referenced on the Pic-of-the-Moment post.
Elizabeth Loftus: How Can Our Memories Be Manipulated?

Years of research have taught Elizabeth Loftus just how unreliable our memories are. From tweaking a real memory to planting a completely fabricated one, tampering with our minds is surprisingly easy.

OK, this situation is not as bad as those people who have been wrongly convicted of crimes based on shoddy eye-witness accounts -- as cited in the TED talk -- but still... I love it when science triumphs over bat-shit-crazy.

[maveric]

20. Has she been interviewed by Scully and Mulder yet?

[LongTomH]

21. The type of aliens she described are known as Nordics

Tall, blond creatures of the type that the late, unlamented Adolph Hitler would have loved. Most of the early 'contactees were Nordics; more recently nordics have been replaced by 'greys,' the creatures reported by Betty and Barney Hill and seen in the movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

I hasten to add that I'm skeptical, at least of contactee and abduction stories.