Childhood vision of a gray.

For what it’s worth this is one of my first real vivid memories.  I was approximately 3 ½ years old.  The year was 1964 and lived in an unusual shaped (barn style) two story house on the edge of town but still populated area.  
My parents were upstairs in bedroom, I was downstairs and glanced towards a window on the side of the house and observed the head and shoulders of a gray looking in.  Didn’t know what a gray was supposed to look like until much later.  Not saying abduction at all.  
Vividly recall staring from about five or six feet away at the creature and a powerful almost telepathic memory of me over and over silently projecting, "What are you?”"   
Don’t recall any received reply or acknowledgment, just a large almond, dark eyed stare from a short, small, thin necked creature. My minds memory recalls depth to the image, unlike cardboard cutout or a mask. 
After about a minute or a little less, I fled up the stairs and tried to tell my parents I had seen "something" outside the window.  I received the "it’s alright" talk and hugs and have had that memory all my life.