Puerto Rican ufologist wants to build UFOport Second Aniversary of the UFOport
request

Reinaldo Ríos



San Juan, Puerto Rico, august 2007

By Iñaki Estivaliz. ).- Ufologist Reinaldo Rios, who claims to have been
contacted by extraterrestrials, wants to build a UFOport in an area of
southwestern Puerto Rico where alleged UFO sightings are common.

In 1978, Rios joined Estacion Universo, a group of people who believe
themselves to be in contact with aliens, and he has worked since then to build a
center for the study of UFOs, complete with a landing strip for alien
spacecraft.

He began holding monthly "UFO camps" in 1993 at which the curious and experts
from Puerto Rico and elsewhere could take part in "public vigils" to try to
capture images of alien spacecraft with cameras and camcorders.

In 2005, Lajas Mayor Marcos Irizarry, whose city Rios contends experiences
between 30 and 40 sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects annually, signed a
proclamation making June 24 UFO Research Day.

The land on which Rios wants to build the "Ovnipuerto," or UFOport, at great
expense has a sign marking the Extraterrestrial Highway, similar to Roswell, New
Mexico, which has its own highway of the same name.
Rios told Efe that while in Roswell, a "sister city" where an alien spacecraft
supposedly crashed in 1947, the city council had appropriated $245,000 to start
construction of a theme park, "public opinion is divided" in Puerto Rico over
whether to spend money on a UFOport.

Rios, who dreams that one day a UFO will hover over the Sierra Bermeja in
Lajas, considers himself a visionary just as "Jules Verne imagined submarines
before they existed."

A math teacher by occupation, the ufologist insists that "there are many
people who have had personal experiences (with UFOs) and do not report them,"
noting that a 1997 case scared the public.

After several nearby towns spotted several objects flying in a zig-zag
fashion, radio station WBVB's service was interrupted and a fire started where
the UFOport is planned, and federal officials barred Puerto Rican police from
entering the area.
"The mystery deepened when people trying to reach the area saw other people
dressed in black" around, Rios said, referring to a purported secret federal
unit whose job is to deal with extraterrestrials like in the comics or
science-fiction films such as "Men in Black."

Puerto Rican physicists Joaquin Medin and Rafael Muller said there was no
scientific evidence that alien spaceships were seen in Puerto Rico, adding that
many times people mistook "globular lightning," which can take the shape of
flying saucers with lights and movements similar to UFOs, for alien spacecraft.

Photographs of supposed flying saucers can be produced by a camera if the lens
is left open for an hour focused on the moon, the physicists said. Rios, for his
part, insists that the large number of sightings around Lajas might be due to
the fact that "there is an underground base of these creatures" in the area,
explaining why the federal government installed an aerostat there.

The alleged presence of UFOs in the area has also been linked to the Bermuda
Triangle.
Since 1945, when the so-called "Lost Patrol" went missing off the coast of
Florida, a legend has spread about mysterious disappearances occurring in a
triangle formed by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

Those who believe in such things contend that the Bermuda Triangle has been
responsible for the disappearance of ships and planes, interference with radio
signals and is home to magnetic fields attributed to supposed UFOs.

At Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which has the world's largest radio
telescope, scientists working on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence,
or SETI, project have been trying for more than 30 years to learn whether there
is intelligent life beyond our planet. EFE
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