Alien Actor Claims Real Alien Contact, Was Haunted On Set

VICE has just published an amazing new interview with Alien (1979) actor Yaphet Kotto about his experiences with the fictional aliens on director Ridley Scott's set, as well as... the real UFOs and aliens who have quietly haunted him throughout his life. Although Kotto claims he has never publicly talked about UFOs before this interview, I found a few obscure clips from an (apparent) 1993 documentary about a mass UFO sighting that Kotto recorded on camera. More on that, below. For VICE, however, Kotto opened up about a different mass UFO sighting he experienced in the Philippines,  as well as his childhood encounters with extraterrestrial entities, which began at the age of 9 or 10:

Yaphet Kotto as Parker in Alien (1979), photo credit: http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/1979/02/alien-vs-yaphet-kotto.html

"[On his childhood encounters with an "real-life "aliens"]
When I turned around, a figure was behind me, it was at least five or six feet tall with an elongated head. It appeared, then jumped to the back of me and disappeared. From that moment on, it was one experience after another which culminated into my sighting in the Philippines and during the filming of Alien."

Depiction of alien, photo credit, "HypnoArt": https://pixabay.com/en/alien-et-extraterrestrial-space-1534975/

Kotto reflected on how there seemed to be a "pattern" to the UFOs he witnessed, as if he was "special" and able to summon them. A common type of UFO he witnessed was a strange sort of "smoke ring":

[On the regularity of UFO sightings]
"Every time I moved into a house, above it at some point, there would be a circle of what looked like smoke. I'd wonder where it came from because it sure as hell didn't look like clouds. Those sightings continued for a good ten to 15 years. I've also had time loss. I have a big loss of time between some of these moments, and I'd often wonder if I was taken"

[On the large UFO sighting in the Philippines]
It was one evening in my office in the Philippines. I heard my wife and the waiters calling me to come outside in very anxious voices. So I went out and when I got there, I saw the same huge circle of smoke over the house. When I asked them what they saw, they said they saw a UFO as big as the Yankee Stadium turned upside down. They were freaking out. Two or three nights later, I saw it. The thing blotted out the entire sky. The moon and everything, it was huge. I just remember saying, "Jesus Christ." I mean I got so nervous man because you don't see something like that without being vulnerable to becoming psychologically blown away. You get scared to put it quite frankly. That messed me up for a good three or four days.

Although Kotto stated that he costarred in Alien because it was a great script, and nothing more, he did find himself constantly reminded of his real UFO encounters while filming. He even noticed strange Egyptian symbols on parts of the fictional spacecraft used in the film, which he was sure no one else noticed:

Sulaco Spacecraft from Alien (1979), Kotto claimed that on some parts of the ship there were Egyptian symbols, photo credit: http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Sulaco

[On his experience filming Alien]
"That mechanism that Sigourney Weaver throws to put the Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) on automatic destruct. There were symbols there. Symbols that had nothing to do with the ship in the film and I kept finding these symbols. They were like Egyptian symbols and I started trying to decipher them, which I was able to do."

Kotto also recalled the fearful days that followed after director Ridley Scott traumatized the crew by surprising them all with an alien effect. This fearful time is also when he decided to become a ufologist:

Still from "chest buster" scene from Alien (1979), photo credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYuF6TI1dI

[About the fear on set, and his decision to become a ufologist.]
" It was like walking into an operating room. They never warned us about the scene. So when we shot it, and the damn thing came blasting out of the actor's chest, that freaked everyone out and sent us into a trauma. All of us. That brought me back to everything that I had experienced up until that point relating to aliens and UFOs. I became a ufologist at that point."

When I was doing research for this article, I came across two very strange YouTube videos that appear to show clips from a documentary made by Kotto back in the 1990s. Though I can't find the original footage, or much information about it, for that matter (there is no IMDB listing for it), it appears to document a September  1993 UFO sighting over a church in Marmora, Ontario, Canada, in which a light, appearing as a heavenly angel - if you can believe it, hovered for a long duration of time:

screenshot from UFO video apparently taken by Kotto in Marmora, Ontario in 2012, courtesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7QahQisda8

According to the YouTube channel (a Kotto fan account, it seems), the 1993 sighting occurred over a church located on Bursthall Street in Marmora, and was seen by many in the village, who proclaimed it to be a spiritual event. Kotto's opinion, however, was that it was not a spiritual event, but a UFO event. That opinion was evidently not popular with the locals, and that could be the reason we've never heard about this sighting before. In addition to the sighting, here is the other alleged clip from the documentary.

Perhaps this 1993 sighting is a hoax or a misunderstood work of fiction, or not actually affiliated with Kotto at all? It is hard to imagine why a respected actor would put everything on the line with a UFO hoax,  but one can never really know these days. Regardless, why was this left out of the VICE interview?

Kotto ends the VICE interview by citing his belief that aliens may disclose themselves soon, and they may have an environmentally-friendly message. Will the UFO and Alien Disclosure movement make faster headway thanks to "celebrity" UFO sightings like these, and do aliens have a positive message for humans here on Earth?

What do you think of this latest VICE interview or the supposed UFO sighting that Kotto filmed in 1993? I will do my best to follow up for more information, but you can share your thoughts on this story in the comments below, or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!