Yaphet Kotto, whose character met a gruesome end in the space horror classic “Alien,” knows even more about aliens than you might expect: He believes in them — and has seen them often during his life!
Yaphet has not only had close encounters of the far-out kind, he thinks he’s even been kidnapped by ETs and says he has no reason to lie about his experiences.
“I was having extra-terrestrial experiences from the time I was ten,” the actor recalled in a recent interview.
When he was a kid in New York City, he was watching friends play stickball from his apartment when an eerie figure he now calls one of “The Grays” appeared in the doorway of his room, watching him and then darted away.
“It was at least five or six feet tall with an elongated head,” he recalled.
Years later, Yaphet says he went to his garage office to meditate, saw unexplained lights outside, and thought they were UFOs flying above his home.
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After that, he says, “every time I moved into a house, above it at some point, there would be a circle of what looked like smoke,” including a gigantic sky spectacle when he lived in the Philippines that was witnessed by many others.
“I’ve also had time loss,” he says. “I have a big loss of time between some of these moments, and I’d often wonder if I was taken. I didn’t accept it fully until I was 35 to 40 years old.”
77-year-old Yaphet, played Chief Engineer Parker in the 1979 hit, “Alien.” His character was killed at the hands, or, more specifically, pincers, of the film’s interstellar slayer.
He’s no longer active after a long, highly rewarding career that includes an Emmy nomination and becoming the first black Bond villain, Dr. Kananga, in “Live and Let Die.”
“I’m not promoting anything,” says Yaphet. “I’ve written no books, and I have no movie that’s about to be released … I really don’t care whether anyone thinks I’m de- lusional. My delusion is over.”
