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.”

To read more, click here.