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‘I had never really considered that fairies could be real although I loved the cute depictions of them in books and movies. The event that my husband and I experienced may not be related to fairies, but upon research into what we saw it is the only thing that comes close to explaining the phenomenon. Although my husband and I have both lived in a small town in Missouri all our lives neither one of us has ever witnessed anything like that which we experienced on June 19, 2010. It was around 10 p.m. We had just returned home from having supper in a nearby town when we decided to sit out on our patio to relax and enjoy the balmy night. It was unusually quiet for a weekend night. No cars were driving by. No people were walking down the little side street that our patio looked out on. The neighbors across the street were apparently gone as no lights were on. We were enjoying simply talking and looking at the stars in the sky. I then shifted my gaze to look over at the huge oak tree that lives in the yard just across the street from our house. At that moment I noticed about half-way up that huge tree was a very bright light shining through the leaves. I kept trying to focus on this, and at first thought I was seeing a star shining through an opening in the leaves. Suddenly the light began to come forward, and as it moved forward it was increasing in size until it reminded me of The Star of David that you would see in books of The Christmas Story because it had the distinctive points. It continued to move forward until it was completely out of the tree. I was awestruck, and couldn’t even speak. I was afraid to even blink for fear of missing something. As it cleared the leaves I could see the light was completely encased inside a beautiful bubble. The light was so brilliant that it almost hurt my eyes to keep looking directly at it, but I couldn’t resist taking in every detail. The brilliant star in the center of the bubble emitted beams of light that literally went out in all directions stopping at the inside surface of the bubble. Between each beam were beautiful, swirling iridescent colors. The bubble continued to slowly move forward until it reached the edge of the street at which time it went suddenly and totally black. Just ‘disappeared’. It was totally silent the whole time this was happening. I held my breath watching and waiting to see more. A few seconds later it reappeared on our side of the street, and was entering into our Redbud tree. I could see each leaf lit up as it were daylight! Then it went black, or ‘disappeared’ again. I finally got my breath at this point enough to ask my husband ‘Did you see that?’ He said ‘Yes, what WAS it?’ We were both dumbfounded, and didn’t know what to do. If he had not been there to see it with me I would have questioned my own sanity. We started dissecting what we had just seen. The whole sighting couldn’t have lasted more than a minute. It was obvious that there was intelligence within it because of the fact that when it entered the open space of the street it became ‘invisible’ (possibly to avoid being seen?) I guess we were both a little afraid because neither one of us attempted to go and stand under that Redbud tree! We waited about thirty minutes more to see if anything else happened. When we saw nothing we went inside. I have searched the internet looking for a clue as to what this might have been and the only website that I could find anything similar on is about fairy sightings. We also came across a book that described conditions that are right for fairy sightings. We were amazed at the number of things listed that exactly fell into place that night: 1. They are most often seen at the time of the Summer Solstice. (It was June 19, the date of the Summer Solstice. 2. They love to live in large oak trees. 3. They like music. We had music playing outside. 4. They like pets. Our two cats were running and playing around outside in this same area. 5. They love flowers, especially ferns. I have lots of ferns and flowers blooming on that side of the house. We feel as if we may have been hidden from view where we were sitting due to the roof line by our patio. This experience haunts me wanting to know more, but I’m sure these things always remain a mystery. I had the realization that one could be outside a lifetime, and yet not be in the right place at just the right time, under perfect conditions, and miss this magnificent, yet very brief sighting. I’m very happy to know that there is so much more out there than what we are normally allowed to see. I have since then stepped outside alone in the darkness to observe that Oak tree and twice I have seen little bouncing lights in the tree. The first time the little lights were pale blue and appeared to jump across the branches in a scalloped pattern. The second time I was watching my husband came out to join me. We both saw some small pale yellow lights move across the tree in a horizontal direction and one fell to the ground and bounced when it hit! I wrote about this experience to an author and artist of a Fairy art book because a couple of his depictions resembled the first glimpse of the large light we saw. I was trying to find out how he knew what these things looked like and all he would say was he was glad I enjoyed his book and to place a clear quartz crystal on the Oak tree, and to leave it as a gift to the little light beings! I guess we will never know exactly what this was, but I keep thinking that it may have been a mode of transportation for the fairies!’