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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.”
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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.”
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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 almost 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.

“Suddenly, we heard a loud humming sound coming from above the car. My niece was terrified and became hysterical, yelling, ‘Auntie, it's above us, please don't get out of the car!' I was also scared, but wanted to calm her down. Just when I told her not to worry, we suddenly heard a loud roar, like a wild animal or something, coming from across a field. That really frightened us.

“In desperation, I had no choice but to put the vehicle in
drive
again—and this time it moved forward. We proceeded at five miles an hour to my sister's house, running on three tires and one front metal rim….”

Further events ensued. “My daughter-in-law, Leslie Miranda-Rivera, and my daughter Barbie wanted to spend the holidays with us here in Puerto Rico since my son is in the Army, stationed in Afghanistan. My husband and I let them both sleep in our bedroom…. On November 22, 2010, at approximately 1:00
a.m
., my daughter entered the bathroom to take a bath first, while Leslie sat on the bed. While watching television, she saw with the corner of her eyes something or someone behind the balcony doors [which] appeared to be an entity, similar in appearance to the gray aliens but about five to six feet tall. The alien was on the balcony looking inside the bedroom through the glass panels. Leslie just sat there mesmerized.

“She couldn't move or yell—it was like being hypnotized. When Barbie came out of the bathroom, Leslie snapped out of it and explained what she had seen. Barbie said that she thought she had seen something standing there on her way to the bathroom. Suddenly, during their conversation, the curtains on the window, which also faces the balcony, began to curl
upward, twisting and tying themselves into a knot, tucking themselves into the blinds. The window was closed and there was no wind. The girls became hysterical. Leslie called me on a cell phone, waking me up, and told me to come over quickly…. I banged on my husband's room door. He opened the balcony door, proceeded outside onto the balcony, but nothing was seen.”

“When we awoke the following morning,” said Leslie, “we found we had bruises on our bodies, mainly on our legs. Maria had pointed them out to us, but we had not even realized they were there, but they were black-and-blue and about two to three inches in size, mainly on our thighs, and I had one that had a lump right on my knee. We were curious as to how they got there….”
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“I think it is fair to say that those beings have tagged, branded, and are actively tracking abductees like myself,” concludes Maria in an earlier report. “They're quite awful creatures and have no regard for humanity and animals living on Earth. To them, we're just a science project. I could be wrong, but I think the creatures cured my cancer because they need a healthy specimen for their experiments.

“I don't know if they come from another planet and flew here in spaceships, but what we saw and heard were something we've never experienced before, until we moved to Puerto Rico. I am a Christian, and I do believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. Like most Hispanics, I am also Catholic. However, my family and I feel that what occurred in that house is nothing spiritual, religious, occult, voodoo, Santeria, etc. Moreover, we are not superstitious. The whole family confronted a terrifying experience in that house. We know what we saw and heard is the truth and I could swear on the Holy Bible that it's true….”
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