‘I’ve got a freaking alien in my backyard’: UFO community still believes and science is listening
- ‘There is a shift ... people are giving more credence to this than they did,’ said one believer of the authorities seriously looking into the phenomenon
He first looked like a hologram – then solid – suddenly there at the edge of the forest behind Trish Bishop’s home in Kissimmee.
It was a Thursday in March 2013, the glow of the afternoon disappearing behind the trees. He stood tall, at least 1.9 metres (six feet three inches), perhaps 100kg (220 pounds) and muscular, wearing a formfitting tan coloured uniform, boots and gloves. He lingered by the crepe myrtle tree in the middle of the garden.
When he turned, it was his face, she remembers, that stopped her.
Its eyes bulged so far out of the sockets Bishop wondered whether he could close them. Its skin was white as chalk and jaw so large it dispelled any notions the visitor was human.
“If you compare a human jawbone to his, we would be a Chihuahua to a pit bull,” Bishop said.
Paralysed with fear, she watched as what she believed to be an alien appeared to climb invisible steps, stopping often to snatch glances at her from where she sat on her back porch, fumbling with her phone to appear as though she could not see him.