The Helmeted Humanoid of Puerto Rico w/ Zelia Edgar

Summary

On July 12, 1977, businessman Adrian Olmos Andrones of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, watched a three-and-a-half-foot being in a green suit and reflective helmet approach a street lamp, then fly away using what looked like a glowing jetpack. His family and at least 10 neighbors saw the strange lights hopping between the trees, while local cattle and dogs panicked. Host Zelia Edgar uses the case to explore John Keel's idea that light is the core of unexplained phenomena and that the entities people see may be masks shaped by the witness's own mind.

Key takeaways

• 1The encounter took place around 8:30 PM on July 12, 1977, in the Cabo Diaz neighborhood of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. The witness was a 42-year-old businessman named in the episode as Adrian Olmos Andrones (transcribed as 'Diolmos Adrones').
• 2He described the being as 3.5 feet tall, with four fingers, duck-like feet, a tail, pointed ears, an inflated-looking green suit, a reflective glass visor, an antenna tipped with a light, and a glowing matchbox-sized object held toward the street lamp.
• 3When a balcony light was switched on by accident, the being fled and lifted off 10-12 feet using a backpack that flashed red and blue lights and made a whirring, drill-like sound. More than 10 neighbors then watched two sets of lights move between the trees for about 10 minutes.
• 4An elderly woman reported seeing a luminous object drop into the same farmland on July 10, 1977. Unverified footprints were reported, and local cattle injured themselves trying to escape their paddock.
• 5The host connects the case to John Keel's theory that light is the only truly real part of these experiences, and to Paul Devereux's 'proto-entities.'
• 6She compares it with the Elmwood UFO encounter, the Sandown Clown, the Honeycutt gnome encounter, the disembodied hands of the Loire, and Puerto Rico's 1975 Moca vampire wave.

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Aug 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.