The Rat Cat

While sitting at the San Juan Airport in Puerto Rico and waiting for my flight to St Thomas, I got talking to a local man named Sebastian De Leon, who was also flying to St Thomas. In 1978, when he was 16, Sebastian and his father were hiking and exploring El Yunque National Forest when they came upon a strange creature sitting in a tree. It looked like a black and white house cat, but it had a long, hairless tail like a rat’s. Sebastian’s father approached it to get a better look and it spat out an orange substance that missed him by a few inches, landing on some leaves, which started dissolving. Yelling out to Sebastian that the orange substance was some kind of acid, he picked up a rock and threw it at the creature, which scampered up the tree, leapt onto another tree and disappeared from sight. As Sebastian and his father walked away, they heard a strange beeping sound. Sebastian looked up and saw a bluish orb the size of a Volkswagen hovering in the sky. It appeared to be observing them and hovered for about five minutes before taking off at incredible speed.

Paul Dale Roberts Sacramento, California