No it is not real.
Gordon shumway is the real name of Alf, the alien in the TV show ALF.
The duration of Encounters - TV series - is 3600.0 seconds.
Anything you see on television or movies about alien creatures is not real aliens - it is how the the movie creators thought aliens might look. Of course, some of them made them intentionally ugly.
Alf, the alien who had his own TV show in the 1980s is only a puppet, but while he is not real, the character is very funny and has fans even to this day.
Encounters - TV series - was created on 1994-06-24.
Encounters - TV series - ended on 1996-01-23.
Nicole Nasca Supercinski has: Played Nicole in "Falcon Experiment 3" in 2011. Played Party Guest in "Clued-Less" in 2012. Played Hospital Orderly (as Nicole Nasca) in "Alien Encounters" in 2012. Played Nicole in "Killing Frisco" in 2012. Played Hospital Orderly in "Alien Encounters" in 2012. Played Reporter (as Nicole Nasca) in "A Country Christmas Story" in 2013.
Close Encounters - 1990 TV was released on: USA: 1990
Encounters of the Fourth Kind - 1989 TV was released on: USA: 1989
Intimate Encounters - 1986 TV was released on: USA: 28 September 1986
Closed Encounters Caves - 2011 TV was released on: USA: 1 April 2011
Alien Planet - 2005 TV is rated/received certificates of: Netherlands:MG6