Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera from Miami says she was taken aboard an alien spaceship during the bizarre encounter.
Ms Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, claims to have communicated with aliens telepathically since the strange incident.
It all began when she was just seven years old, when three blonde, big-bodied beings visited her, she claimed.
There were two females and a male, she said.
She recounted the event during a 2009 television interview, which has resurfaced after she ran for office.
She said: “I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
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Conspiracy theorists believed remains of UFO spacecrafts were stored at Area 51, and that government scientists were researching the remains to engineer the aliens technology
She explained how the aliens gave her a wealth of information about earth, including:
▪ There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta
▪ Africa contains the world’s “energy centre”
▪ “God is a universal energy.”
She was a Doral council woman from 2012-14, serving as the city's first economic developer.
She has also taught leadership seminars at universities.
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Her daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen.
Son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.
He said: "Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd.
“Miami politics are unusual. This one takes it to a new level.”