I cant tell you the exact time or date because it was so long ago.However it was late night and loud scaping noises on the roof woke us up.Us being my mother,older brother, and I(at the age of 4).We heard strange voicelike sounds aside from the scraping.We then saw a very bright light through bedroom window.Scared as could be we went to the livingroom to look out the sliding glass doors when the object dropped between both houses,this gave us an unobstructed view from our livingroom double windows.We were no more than 10 feet away.It was a streched octagon shaped translucent craft,we could see little people inside,kind of like what you freeks refer to as the grays.The light the ship was giving off was very bright We all agreed it was yellow/green. It was between 6 to 8 feet long and and about 4ft. in hieght. There is only about 12ft of distance between both houses so it couldnt have been very wide.We could see them looking at us as we looked at them. it just hovered there for at least ten seconds until it zipped away with flashing speed.My parents got divorced later that year.My older brother had to see a shrink due to his fear of the dark/ufos shortly after. Ive never spoken about this outside of the family before.My brother gets very uptight whenever I bring up the subject.My mom also avoids the subject.We all know what we saw and I at least have no doubt. NOTE: the craft had a humming sound to it