EL CENTRO — Pedro Leon Jr., a lifelong Imperial Valley resident and close encounter believer, will be hosting the Imperial Valley’s first-ever Alien-Con this Saturday, April 18, at the Prestige Event Center in Heber.
Pedro stated in various interviews that he had a close encounter “experience” with an alien being as a teenager and, later on, again on various occasions as an adult. He even wrote a book about it, called “My UFO Diaries,” which he published last year.
“My UFO Diaries” is an account of Leon’s life experiences with aliens compiled into a short 70-page book with plenty of photographs. His family is featured heavily in the book, as he feels that many of them were “witnesses” to his UFO encounters.
In a recent interview with Pedro Leon Jr., he shared his reasons for bringing the first ever Alien-Con event to the Imperial Valley. It began with an unexpected encounter he had as a teenager when he was about 16 years old at home in El Centro.
Leon said, “It was like a ball of fire, but it wasn’t hot. It was about the size of a basketball. It appeared in the middle of the living room around 9pm. We were all watching television, and I was lying down on the carpet, and this object just showed up above me.”
“By the time I came to my senses, I was like, ‘What’s this?’ I kind of looked around and asked, ‘What’s going on?’ The good thing is that I had witnesses. My parents were the witnesses, as well as my brothers and sisters,” Leon said.
Pedro described his close encounter as “mind-blowing.” He says he was not afraid, just curious and intrigued to find out what type of entity had visited him that day.
“I got up. We looked at each other for a few minutes. I reached out for it, but it backed away. So, in my opinion, it had to have a mind of its own because it retreated,” he said.
“It then went around me, so I reached for it again, and again it backed up,” he said. “It drifted away slowly, but it went through the door. So I opened the door, and I ran after it.”
“It never communicated with me. I don’t know what it was looking for or what it was doing. It then went up about thirty feet up in the air, and he knew I was following it. Again, it stopped, and it looked at me for a few seconds…and then, whoosh!”
“It just took off towards the sky. After that, I just started seeing them all the time,” Leon said.
Pedro said he has encountered many skeptics over time, but also many people who believe his accounts and have close-encounter alien stories of their own.
In his book, he says, “I’m not a UFOlogist, or a UFO investigator, or an expert on UFOs. I don’t go around searching for them. They come to me.”
Leon would like people to have an open mind on the subject. He also stated, “In my defense, I ask—has anyone seen God? But yet millions and millions believe in a God no one has seen.”
Pedro and his wife have found a community of like-minded people who are curious about aliens when they visited the annual UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico.
Leon said, “I felt at home with these people. They were very interested in what I had to show. They were amazed at what I had. Some people have stayed in contact with me ever since.”
Leon invites the public to visit Alien-Con and listen to other guest speakers share their stories about close encounters, as well as potentially share some of their own experiences.
Pedro would also like to thank his wife for putting up with his “crazy ideas” and also the speakers who have traveled a long way for this event. Last, but not least, he would like to thank the public for their support.
Alien-Con will take place today, on Saturday, April 18, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Prestige Event Center in Heber. Tickets are $20 both in advance and at the door.