by Timothy Good
Shortly after, Wilfredo’s car was stolen. “That happened after I spoke to a female co-worker who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. She told me about her experiences, and two days later I felt as though I was being watched.”5
Since early 2007, Wilfredo observed the same, or similar, huge craft over the airport control tower on many occasions, typically between 20:20 and 20:30. This time using the pseudonym “Mr. Rodriguez” (owing to his work at the airport), he decided to board a scheduled American Eagle flight departing at 20:30 for Vieques, an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, together with a skeptical friend, to see the object more closely and gain the support of another witness. As Lucy Guzman reports:
“Rodriguez says that as the American Eagle flight gained altitude, it was necessary to look toward Route #3, as this was where the light appears to emerge from, toward the beach area. The UFO approached the plane sufficiently [for him to realize] that it was larger than the airliner. It then made a U-turn, heading toward Fajardo, and then Vieques, as though heading for the nearby islands. He says that he alerted all of the passengers and asked the co-pilot about the strange light, who replied [in English]: ‘Forget about it,’ which led Rodriguez to believe that pilots are forbidden to discuss what is going on, or else did not want to alarm them. The same event happened on the return trip from Vieques to San Juan.”6
Repeated Encounters
In 2005, Maria M. Rivera and her family began to experience a series of alarming encounters with alien beings in Aguada, northwest Puerto Rico. At about 03:00 on November 10, Maria and her daughter heard a weird humming sound, like a hurricane wind, going by the house. “The sound was so strange that it penetrated our ears,” the report she sent me begins. “When my daughter Barbie and I looked outside, we observed what appeared to be a disc-shaped object moving westward toward the rear of the house where an enormous rain forest and a huge antenna are located, and which leads all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
“The disc was silver in color with a row of windows around it and had a greenish haze or aura covering the craft. All the windows appeared to be a darker greenish color. The craft appeared to be descending as though it was about to land somewhere behind the house. We lived in Brooklyn, New York, near Kennedy Airport for over 20 years [so] I know what we have seen, and the sounds it made were very unusual, something we’ve never heard and seen before. After that, my daughter and I heard the same sound at least twice a week.”
On April 28, 2006, at about 03:00, Maria again heard the same sound. “Ten or fifteen minutes later, I heard my dog Dora barking continuously in the backyard. When I went to investigate, turning on the backyard light, I observed my dog lying on her back with her four legs up, apparently unconscious. The dog was chained to a metal pole next to the back fence which separates my property from the rain forest in the back (owned by the U.S. government). I called her name, but she did not respond. When I lifted my eyes and looked at the fence, about twenty-five feet from where I was standing, I observed two creatures standing close to and behind the chain-link fence, looking at me.
“One of the aliens was about three feet from the dog, and about five feet from the other. They were about three and a half feet tall with a large oval head and big black slanted eyes. They had pale grayish skin, a barely visible slit for a mouth, and two little holes for a nose. They also had very skinny arms and seemed not to have any clothes on. Their legs were not showing because under the fence was a cinder-block wall about one and a half feet high. I could only see them from the waist up.” [Maria’s sketch appears on the next page.]
“The aliens were staring at me and I was staring at them. I think that they were reading my mind when I said mentally, ‘I’m going to wake up my husband, Nelson,’ because when I left the window and walked through the hallway leading through to the bedrooms to wake him up, they detoured me to the other bedroom to wake up my seventeen-year-old daughter instead. I woke her up and both of us went to the dining room window where we observed the creatures still standing in the same place.
“Again, they stared at us and we stared straight into their large black eyes for a while. My daughter said to me, ‘Mommy, I’m going back to bed because I’m scared, and I won’t be able to sleep.’ I then followed her to the bedroom because she was afraid to go by herself. Approximately ten minutes later, I returned to the dining room window, and the aliens were still in the same location.
“While staring straight into their black eyes, the one closest to the dog was telling me in my mind to open the door leading to the back yard. I said in my mind, ‘I’m not going to open the door.’ He demanded telepathically, ‘You’re going to open the door.’ I then felt myself moving toward the door and was getting drowsy.
“I don’t remember what happened after that. I woke up in my bed [and] asked my daughter if she had seen the same thing, in case I was imagining things. She described the incident and the creatures in the same way and manner I described them. We then told my husband, who slept in a separate bedroom facing the back yard, because my daughter was afraid to sleep by herself, so I had to sleep with her.”
Nelson confirmed having heard the dog barking furiously in the direction of the rain forest at about 03:00. He looked outside without getting out of bed and assumed she was barking at a cat, and did not look in the direction of the rain forest and fence. He then fell back to sleep.
“What concerns me the most,” Maria stressed to me, “is that my husband informed me that he discovered the back door open when he got up at about 8:00 in the morning, but did not know what had happened. My daughter informed me she opened her eyes about 5:00 in the morning and did not find me next to her in bed. She thought I was in the bathroom or somewhere around the house and went back to sleep. And the dog did not want to eat or drink anything for days and was lying down, apparently sick…. We did take Dora to the vet, but did not dare to mention that some ‘aliens’ were seen next her. She was just given an antibiotic injection.”
On May 1, 2006, at about 00:50, while sitting in the living room talking on the phone, Maria noticed a large bright light moving through the woods. “The light was so bright that it illuminated the inside of the house. I informed my husband and we immediately closed all the louver windows in the kitchen and dining room. I became hysterical and began to cry because I thought they were after me, and my husband had to calm me down.
“At approximately 2:00 a.m. the same night, I heard the same sound again over the house like something hitting the flat concrete roof which shook the house as if something had landed there. We were afraid, but did not call the police for fear of being ridiculed. It was such a terrifying experience that we didn’t even consider going outside to check it out. Instead, the three of us huddled in one bed…. Could it be possible that I did open the backyard door and was abducted by aliens? I don’t know, [but] I have dotted puncture marks on my left hand [in a circular pattern] and had a slight burning pain which gradually diminished as time went by….”
A week or so later, Maria and her family went to visit the mayor of Aguada, Luís A. Echevarria, at City Hall, but he was unavailable. Instead, they notified Martín Concepción of Puerto Rico’s Civil Defense Agency and handed him their written testimony. He said he would investigate and ask the Municipal Police to patrol the area, copying in the mayor. Nothing more was heard.
On May 11, Maria and Nelson were interviewed on Channel 5, but the interviewer tried to debunk their experiences, citing Puerto Rican superstitions and hoaxed claims. “My husband and I were so upset,” said Maria. “We told him that we are honest people, not superstitious, and just because someone lied, it does not mean that we are liars.
“We even sent e-mails to several Puerto Rican UFO investigative organizations, but they did not e-mail us back. We did not know who to turn to since we were not getting help from anyone here on the island. So my husband and I started sending e-mails to the U.S. mainland and to other countries
to see whether someone or some organization would help us.”
Further Incidents
Maria compiled a list of further incidents, which I summarize as follows:
june 5, 2006, ca. 03:00—After watching television, Maria went to get a glass of milk before retiring for the night. As she walked through the living room on her way to the bedroom, she observed a creature peeping through the glass-pane window on the main entrance door. She surmised that “he” was standing on top of a patio chair, assuming it was the same height as the previous creatures. She also said it scared her as it looked “older, meaner” with a sinister look on its face. She woke her husband, who grabbed a machete and went out on the balcony. But the creature had disappeared.
october 22, 2006, ca. 23:00—A blackout affected Aguada for three hours. At about midnight, Maria awoke her husband so he could hear a weird humming sound emanating from behind the house in the rain forest.
february 25, 2007, ca. 04:00—Maria observed a disc-shaped craft, similar to the one she had seen before, from her bedroom window. About thirty feet in diameter, it was hovering motionless some 130 feet from the house and the same distance from the ground. She was able to observe aliens, who in turn were observing her through viewing ports, silhouetted against a bright greenish-blue background. No sounds could be detected. By the time she had woken her husband, who picked up a camcorder, the craft had gone.
may 21, 2007, ca. 01:00—Maria’s daughter Barbie was talking on her cell phone in the living room when she suddenly heard the humming sound again and a greenish-blue light flashed through all the windows, flashing in sequence from the front to the back windows.
june 2, 2007, ca. 02:00—Maria’s 21-year-old son, Jonathan, who had come to visit from New York, noticed a very bright beam of green light shining through the windows in his bedroom. “He was so frightened,” reports Maria, “that after the light vanished he hysterically ran upstairs in his pajamas to inform us.”
august 14, 2007—Early in the morning, the family’s dog Dora was nowhere to be found. A search all over the neighbourhood proved fruitless. “I do not know if it had something to do with those aliens,” said Maria, “but after what happened to me and my family in that house, anything is possible.” After the disappearance of Dora, the family moved to another house in Aguada, further from the beach and the rain forest. To no avail.
november 3, 2007, ca. 02:00—Maria’s most traumatic experience occurred just prior to falling asleep, when she saw a small blueish-green neon light, about the size of a penny, coming from the window and moving round the bedroom in the dark. Maria became paralyzed. “Suddenly my bed was being surrounded by those creatures. Obviously, I was made unconscious because when I opened my eyes I found myself naked, in a different, cold room, and lying face up on a very cold ‘stainless steel’ platform.”
“This platform,” Maria continued, “seemed to be floating on the air without legs or anything supporting it. It was narrow enough that my arms hung over the sides. Still feeling paralyzed but conscious, they commenced injecting me with a long needle or something. I begged them with my thoughts to please not do it, but they ignored me. I also felt that they put something metallic, like a round suction cap about five inches in diameter, on the right side of my abdomen. It felt as if my flesh was being stretched and my inside was being sucked out like a powerful vacuum. I was in excruciating pain when they did that, but I was unable to scream or move. About five or six creatures surrounded the platform, one being taller than the others, and the rest were the short ‘grays’ I previously saw in my back yard.
“This time they were not communicating telepathically among themselves, because I heard a weird incoherent mumbling sound coming from them. However, I didn’t see their mouths move. I remember calling them ‘marcianos’ (Martians). They revealed, telepathically, in Spanish, that they don’t like being called Martians but prefer to be called ‘creatures.’
“When I got up the next morning, I still had pain on the right side of my abdomen, but no mark was visible.”
Since Maria’s daughter had moved to Pennsylvania, Maria again shared a bedroom with her husband. “He keeps telling me to wake him up when it happens, but I could not move or speak. Many times he stays awake at night, but nothing happens so he falls asleep. I do, however, feel or have a sense when they’re around.
“It is important to be noted here that I’ve had ovarian cancer, and have had several operations to remove parts of my intestine. I also had several operations for breast cancer. I flew occasionally to New York City to see my private doctors, since here on the island private doctors are reluctant to accept Blue Cross, GHI, and Blue Shield, which I got from my husband’s retirement. I was informed by my doctors in New York that the cancer had returned and that I urgently need another operation. I used to be in constant stomach pain and noticed blood in my stool and urine when I went to the bathroom. It was not the first time: the cancer has recurred before and they operated on me after each recurrence. But after the encounter with those creatures on April 28, 2006, I returned to New York, several tests were performed, and no cancer was detected. The pain and bleeding had stopped. I truly feel that those creatures had cured me.
“What is my opinion of those creatures? They could be benevolent and compassionate creatures, but I’m afraid of them. They do not have my permission to do with my body whatever they please. Although I believe they had cured me, I am not their guinea-pig.
“I have something in my right lower back that has been bugging me for a long time. It moves when I touch it and I know it wasn’t there before. I saw on the History Channel the program called UFO Hunters, when Mr. Bill Birnes took a man who was abducted by a UFO to Dr. Roger Leir. The man had an alien implant in his leg. When Dr. Leir put a powerful magnet where the man had the implant, to our amazement the object inside his flesh moved toward the magnet and the skin bulged. Like that man, I don’t have an entry wound or scar where the object is. That prompted me and my husband to do the same experiment. Unfortunately, we do not have a powerful magnet…. The mark on my left hand and the object embedded in my back have been noticed by me since my encounter with those aliens on April 28, 2005.”
On June 11, 2008, at 02:52, Maria was alone in her living room when she suddenly had a presentiment that she should go outside onto the balcony. “There it was again,” she reports. “My camcorder was not in the immediate area, but luckily I had my cell phone with me. It appeared to be a saucer-shaped object, similar to the ones I’ve seen previously, but with lights around it. You can hear the crickets and the coquis (small frogs) chirping, mixed with the sound that the object is making. The sound is similar to the humming of other UFOs I’ve heard and seen before. It was over the wooded mountains near the other house I moved to in Aguada….
“What happened to me and my family is no hoax,” Maria concludes in the report she sent me. “It was a terrifying experience. To prove this, I am willing to submit to a polygraph test, go under hypnosis, be under oath, or whatever.”7
In September 2009 I received a personal communication from Maria which provides some additional information.
“We do not live in Aguada anymore; we moved to Aguadilla, nearby. We moved from one house to another house in Aguada, but they followed me,” Maria began. “This is the third house that we’ve moved to on the island since we came here from New York City in 2005. At first, I was so afraid that I wanted to return to New York, but now I know that no matter where I move to, they’ll find me, so I’ve decided to remain on the island. However, my daughter was so traumatized that she refuses to come to Puerto Rico, even on vacation.”8
In 2011, at my request, Maria and Nelson sent me an update on the family’s experiences. “Even with neighbors nearby in a nice community and my husband sleeping beside me, on April 3, 2009, at approximately 3:30 a.m., I found myself in the same room I was in when abducted on November 3, 2007,” Maria wrote. “The room I entered was a
lmost dark.
“They showed me a little girl who appeared to be about one and a half years old [and] informed me that the little girl sitting there in the corner was my child. When I looked at her, she did look a lot like my daughter, Barbie, with long, dark, curly hair and her face shaped like my daughter’s face. The only difference was the eyes that were tilted upwards, slanted like the creatures’.
“It appeared as though they did not want me to get close to her. I could only see her physique…. She was skinny, very thin [and] kneeling in a corner, and her eyes looked sad.
“Is it possible that on November 3, 2007, a fetus was being ejected from my womb, then one year and five months later they had shown me the child? I don’t know, [but] before I was abducted on that date, I did feel something moving in my abdomen from side to side….”
On March 16, 2010, Maria drove her 27-year-old-niece, Carmen J. Velez, who was visiting from New York, to her sister’s house in Aguada. “That night, at about 12:10 a.m., we took a shortcut back home through an isolated wooded road,” Maria recounted. Suddenly, the car began shaking, though there was no wind. “I told my niece that we wouldn’t be able to make it home and that we would have to turn back. I turned around and parked not far from a house to check on the tires. When I exited the car, to my surprise the front tires looked as if they were torn into a hundred pieces, as if they had been sliced with a razor blade. The tires were about four months old and were not worn.
“I then tried to call my sister’s house for help on my cell phone. The signal was good but I couldn’t get through. I’m used to calling my sister from that location and I’ve never had any problems, but that night I couldn’t get through. I entered the vehicle, told my niece to lock all the doors, and told her that we had to do whatever it takes to move from there…. When I turned on the car, it started okay, but when I put it in drive it didn’t move forward.
