Reports on UFO's are quite frequent in, over and around Puerto Rico. This fact can be partly explained by the benign climate , the clear skies with (still) little atmospheric pollution and many rural open spaces which seem to be favorite oases for UFO's around the world.

Are UFO's real? Of course! UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. Thus, anything that appears to be flying and cannot be readily identified is, by definition, a UFO.

Many people have attempted to contact UFO's. Some claim they actually have contacted or have been contacted by some type of extraterrestrial being. As producers of this page, we have adopted a policy of objective reporting. We give you the facts as we know them. You, the reader, may reach your own conclusions. The following paragraphs report some of those facts as we know them.

• Puerto Rico has suffered several severe droughts in the last twenty-five years. The most severe of these happened in 1967 and in 1995. In both cases, the main water reservoir that supplies running water to the Greater San Juan Metropolitan Area, Lago Carraízo, or Lake Carraízo, sank to dangerously low levels. Popular belief held that alien spaceships were using up the lake's water to provide fuel and food for the extraterrestrial creatures. To our knowledge, though, there were no reports on actual sightings of any of the alien spaceships in or round the lake. Concerns about extraterrestrials were washed away by tropical rains which filled Lake Carraízo and other island water reservoirs back to their normal levels.

• The sleepy mountain town of Adjuntas, about thirty minutes away from Ponce , is called the Town of the Dormant Giant el pueblo del Gigante Dormido from the shape of one of the largest mountains in its landscape. Adjuntas was very much in the news in the late 80's and early 90's due to reports of mysterious lights which could be seen transversing the skies at night. Reports held that spaceships were traveling from somewhere in the Adjuntas rural mountains to Laguna Cartagena in Lajas. This latter location was said to be the source of utterly strange noises, tremors that resembled minor earthquakes and other unexplained phenomena.

• Early in the Eighties, reports that Martians had landed somewhere in El Yunque Rain Forest, near Fajardo were strongly believed throughout the island. A leading comedian and TY personality, Jose Miguel Agrelot, was ready to attempt to contact the Martians. This drove people in herds to the farthest confines of the Rain Forest in attempts to see the alien creatures.

• A crash of what may have been some spacecraft was reported near Lajas, Puerto Rico in 1997. The area showed charred brushes and other signs of unusual activity. The area was quickly placed under control of U.S. military forces. An official explanation of the events was never provided.

• Other areas where extraterrestrial activity is reported with some regularity include the towns of Carolina, Rio Piedras, Bayamón, Cabo Rojo, Lares and San Sebastián.

• One reader reports: My daughter is now a medical doctor and the mother of a beautiful child. We were living in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico when she was eight years old. One morning she told her mother, her brother and myself that some light-green, very small floating creatures had entered her room (through the windows, with no damage to the structure). She told us that she had been examined thoroughly by the friendly little creatures, and that they had communicated, without actual words, some information to her. She has unwaveringly adhered to her story for over twenty years. Never has she revealed the nature of the information communicated to her by the creatures that she calls "her little friends". "We decided not to make this information public at the time, in order to protect my daughter's privacy. Even today, I'll tell you the story but do not wish to have my name or hers revealed." - says her proud father.

• The following story is posted exactly as received from a reader: Yes,something in my head has been stuck there for a while know. That is the project the NASA had in the island last April.This was taking place in the town of Vega baja, NASA was laughing a number of rockets into space and the ufo comunity was protesting around the gates of the installation were NASA was working. What cought my attention was that at the same time at the other side of the island, plety of sightings were being reported and diferent government agencies were also working around the area were the sightings were being reported. The next day there was so many reports to be invetigated by the local ufo research teams. I don't know what happened that the reports were never made and the government agencies were never questioned. What really got my attention was the fact that out of maybe 14 rockets, that were launghed by NASA only about 3 madeit into the atmosphere. NASA is one of the leading or if not the only one that stands alone when technology of this same! matter is conducted. Is hard to believe that they could had made that many mistakes, I have been trying to add two and two and it still comes out wrong, that means something serious was taking place with the government agents back on the other side of the island.

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• Here's another report from a reader, translated by us into English: Something weird is happening at El Yunque. Huge trucks climbing the mountain at 2 in the morning. Strange trucks never seen before parked behind a fence. One night around midnight I was with some friends farther up that LA COCA Cascade and higher that Mount Brithorn Tower. We were exactly as the fence that had been locked to prevent vehicles from going through. We had the habit of trespassing that fence and walk along the road, passing a peculiar federal base and walking for around 45 minutes with flashlights to reach what we called the second tower. This was a habit for us, except that one of those nights two cars were coming down the road and we had to drop to the grass along the road to avoid being seen. One night just as we crossed the fence, we found three odd-looking trucks with American markings on our right. As we looked at the trucks, I noticed a black drape hiding what seemed like a road being constructed. Something told me not to go up that night and we decided to leave. Then I had to turn back because I had left my pack of cigarettes behind. As I was looking for my cigarettes, a strong flash light was turned on me. I was so startled that I just stood there! Suddenly an American came out of the shadows, dressed in military clothing and his face with camouflage paint. He had an AR-15 rifle and a flash light with which he aimed at my face. I realized there were two more people at my left because I could hear their voices although I could not see them in the dark The man facing me seemed quite upset and shouted madly: What are you doing here, trespassing on federal property. I answered:"We're just little kids that have never been on EL YUNQUE ,we saw de trucks and we were just curios about it. I don't Know why your doing this". Another voice finally said: "I think thy are just having fun let them go." That's how the night ended. I perceived something very strange that night and I know I saw merely the beginning of a huge project, underground maybe or beneath the mountains in OUR EL YUNQUE"

• During November 1998 the news media on the island reported the curious case of a teenager who screamed while sleeping and woke his mother. He claimed that a strange creature had been in the room with him and had burned him on the thigh. It turned out that he did have a scar from burning in the thigh. Upon examining it the next day, a local doctor said that this scar seemed at least several days old.

• On December 5, 1998, a web surfer submits a message to us, concerned about recent news about two young men who were drowned after flash flooding in La Mina Area of El Yunque. He argues that the La Mina area had been closed to the public due to mudslides, although he never believed that story. He prefers to recall the rumors of a spaceship crashing in La Mina. He also gives some credit to the theory that there may be subterranean bases in El Yunque. One of the two young men who drowned said before going into the river that he felt somehow attracted by the water, he says. He finds the whole thing worthy of further investigation.

• The following message was received (sic) on July 7, 1999 from a websurfer:

  comment: Hello, I'm writing these short words to ask, for any other information that you might have, that's related to the island of PR. I have been looking just about in every corner of the internet to locate as much information of UFO's aliens and anything else that might be related to the subject. I know that there are plenty of ufo and sighting reports that have been made here on the island in the past several years.

  What I can understand is, Why NASA, has started to show some interest on the island after all these years. Last year when NASA was conducting a rocket launching project, this of the town of Vega Baja on the north coast of PR. A number of UFO reaserch teams were on the front gates protesting about the entire situation with NASA. Another thiing that I can't understand is that fact that out of 14 rockets NASA was succesful with maybe 4 of these, this is a high rate of failure, specially for NASA.

  The one thing I could never understand was that on the other side o! f the island at exactly the same time that the rockets were being launched. A team from some government agency was conducting a training excersice on the town of Lajas near the laguna Cartajena. A number of sightings also on the town of Lajas were reported that same night, and at the site where the team was training, reports were also made of objects flying in and out off the area where the government agents were training. Some how I believe all the events on that night were related in some way. On the site near laguna Cartagena where the series of sightings have been occuring, The government has always arrived on the site days before something was ever reported. This was to make sure the local plublic didn't have access to what ever evidence was on and aroung the site. The government has some agency conducting an investigation on most of the sightings, and El Yunque, the Laguna Cartagena and many other situations that have been surfacing through out the last few year.

  Well at least this is what I got from a! close friend of mine that ! works with most of the US government projects that arrive on the island. The main goal is to try and keep as much of this out of the media and the public. Also from the local researchers on the island. With the problem on the island of Vieques the government is trying to stay away from this as much as posible, specially when some of the investigation has to take place on the small island of Vieques, because at one point most of the testing of new equipment and highly classify projects took place on the island of vieques la isla nena

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The following message is posted just as received on February 11, 2007:
"Hi, I'm almost afraid to write but lately I have been thinking about the possibility of UFO'S being evil in nature and if they are the cause of Alzheimer's.

My mother died 6 months ago due to Alzheimer's, she was 78 years old. I live in Florida now, but I was raised in Puerto Rico in the Rio Piedras area. We used to go to church twice a week in Carolina (Baptist) and one night while driving back late at night (wed. or Thurs) after choral practice I witnessed a UFO. I was about 12 (year 1972), my mother would have been around 44. She was driving and I was next to her when I wished out loud "WOULDN'T IT BE NICE TO SEE A UFO RIGHT NOW" and to my surprise and horror there was one right over our car. As far up as a helicopter would fly when hovering. It was hovering for a few seconds. It had different colored lights that seemed to move around it's circular body. I started crying with fear and the thing turned into a very bright light and zoomed so fast to the north of the island (or the ocean) that it could not have been anything I had ever seen before or since. My mother drove over the median and almost lost control of the car and I don't think she saw it or never admitted to it. I think it happened on a main road near a residential are called Levittown or near the horse race place. We moved to Florida when I was 14 in 1974.

I read a book recently called ALLIEN ENCOUNTERS that made so much since to me...I highly recommend it.

Any thoughts? I wonder if someone were to collect data on the number of Alzheimer victims and the number of UFO SIGHTHINGS if the two correlate...In other words, areas that have low incidence of UFO sightings also have low incidence of Alzheimer cases. I have been wondering ever since my Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, why her, of all people. She didn't have any bad habits like smoking or drinking and she was a true believer of God. She was born in Ciales. By the way her father's last name was Sanchez. Maybe you are related somehow...

The chupacabra always looked evil to me. And why are we so afraid of aliens if they are just that? I think it is because deep down we know what they really are but are not willing to accept it. Maybe that is why the U.S. government doesn't think we could handle the truth and are denying any knowledge of UFOs and what they are.

Are you in Puerto Rico or elsewhere? I'm planning a trip to Puerto Rico with my husband and daughter and I'm thinking of driving by Laguna Cartagenas. Is that recommended or not? Of course, we'll be going to El Yunque."

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