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‘During a camping trip I and two close friends had a large campfire during a waxing moon (not yet full). We were on private property (over a hundred acres of land) when the wind started rustling the trees but not the brush. We saw what we thought were fireflies in the tall grass but it was not the season and too cold. We followed into the deeper forest but as the moon dimmed we stopped. The ‘fireflies’ would get brighter then dim again enticing us forward. (Yes we did mention willow wisps but we kept trying to think [of] them as bugs.) As we backed out we turned and saw small glowing winged things on our bedrolls. I could make out legs although not sure how many but as we reached the edge of the woods they all flew away into the high grass. As we all noticed something strange we wrote our descriptions as not to influence our recounting and we all matched what we saw. Out of either superstition or manners we took some of our camping food plus a few sweets and placed them a few feet into the tall grass. During the night we could see dim lights inside the tall grass and in the morning just the sweets were gone. In south Louisiana where we are from there are very few bio luminescent insects and none of the ones we looked up matched our sighting.’ ‘From the distance and lighting we witnessed something about three-and-a-half to four inches tall with wings that either caught the moon light with amazingly effective multifaceted reflections or bio-luminescent. Legs were visible but barely and they flew away before we were close enough to see much of a head.’ ‘Our attention was grabbed by sounds that were very difficult to understand. Not cicada as it wasn’t their spawning season but more of a thrum. None of them ‘talked’ to us but we might have overheard them talking to one another.’ ‘We did not know this prior but the land owner when asked if he ever saw strange lightning bugs did mention fairies.’ ‘After looking through what we witnessed and eliminated other explanation it was thought that a fairy fit the description closest. Also as we don’t know what fairies truly are then they could be a sub type of ghost or alien but this is what we decided on.’ ‘[Fairies are] physical or spiritual embodiment of intelligent nature beings.’ ‘I can’t say that I was frightened when I saw the ‘faeries’ but what was drawing us deeper into the woods felt different and were more balls of energy with no discernible wings.’