My father was in the US Airforce stationed at Mansfield.My parents would go out in the evening leaving me with a sitter.I would be asleep when they returned. One such night, I awoke to my ceiling light being on in my room.I got up to turn off the switch and noticed all the lights upstairswere on. I walked out of my room to the upstairs landing and turnedto see a figure in front of me. I was afraid but the figure mentalytold me not to be afraid, everything was alright, and to turn off thelights and go back to bed. I turned to my parents room to turn of the light and my parents were sprawled across the bed like they had been thrown there. They drank alot so who knows. I turned off the light and noticed the downstairs lights on and the front door wide open. I didn't see the figure anymore. I went downstairs, turned off the lights, closed the door and went back to bed. In the morning I tried to describe what happened, my mother thoughtI saw a mouse. I was frustrated at her not understanding me. A fewdays later we found out that a close relative, also in the AF had beenkilled in a car accident in Alaska. From then on I always assumed that I had seen a ghost. The figure looked like a ghost but had bright blue eyes. I was 5 years old at the time. In the past few years I have wondered if this was an alien encounter.When my dad was alive I asked him about UFOs. He never saw any but didsay he had made a delivery to Area 51. He was at that time stationed atNellis AFB near Las Vegas. He was a chief master sargent. He and anotherguy delivered an aircraft engine. They were surrounded by armed guards andnot allowed to dismount. The engine was unloaded and they left.