We watched the craft and an alien for 15 minutes.I’ve been reluctant to tell the story because I would have a hard time believing it if I heard it from someone else. Here it goes: It was the summer of 99. We were on a remote rural area in eastern Venezuela. It was about one month after we arrived in the area and on a very clear and moonless night. While my friends stayed inside the house having dinner I came out to get something out of the truck, it was very dark and I had to use a flashlight to go outside. While I walked to the truck I noticed that there was a light coming from above, I immediately looked up and saw a round shape object about 200ft wide hovering right on top of the house. It made no sound. I could tell that is was circular because it was covering the stars that were very visible that night. It had a reddish light in the meddle. I immediately called my friends out and we all watched amazed at the craft. One of the girls in the group turned a flash light on and started to make signals to toward the UFO while some others panicked and ran inside, about 10 minutes later the light in the middle became a beam of light that landed right on top of the house, and then a human shaped being floated up and down the beam and seemed to be looking at us, it was impossible to see any details like mouth, nose, etc. because the light was engulfing it, it was also impossible to tell what color it was (it looked dark gray). After a few minutes it slowly left. The next day we drove in the direction where we thought it had gone and we took a few people from the nearby town so they could guide us trough the very rough terrain. We finally found a large round area where all the grass had died, it wasn't burned, and it was just flat on the ground and dead.