The event occurred roughly 11:30 at night. i heard some noise outside of my girlfriends home and so i went outside to investigate it and make sure that raccoons weren't in the garbage. i walked towards the garage beside the house when i heard some twigs breaking under footfalls just inside the tree line. i turned on my flashlight and started slowly moving towards the noises and heard them stop. i walked a bit farther in, where there is a small game trail and seen what looked to be an alien "grey" crouched down poking at some bushes. it immediately turned around when i shone the flashlight on it (mostly due to my shocked shout) and it ran off. i went back inside and witnessed it walk across the back yard towards the side of the house, through the front lawn and out across the street to the next tree line. i decided to see if it was still there, and approached it again after discovering it crouched in the trees once again. i moved slowly and tried to do my best to show that i was not aggressive or armed, and it just watched me with a really spooky glare. it was roughly 3-4 feet tall, had large black eyes, skinny but muscular arms and legs, no nose or facial features and had a large head. i was also able to count it's fingers and seen it had three fingers and a thumb. it made no noise at all. i was roughly ten feet away from the alien before it got up and walked away, and i did not follow again as i was afraid it felt threatened and might attack me.