In the midst of these violent and unsettling events, our son, Angelo, who was approximately nine years old at the time,
began speaking of an “alien friend.” While at first, this seemed like the imaginative play of a child, the more he described his interactions with this “alien friend,” the more we began to question what was happening around us. Angelo’s descriptions were detailed and consistent, contributing to the growing sense that there was more to our neighborhood than met the eye.