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‘October 13 2020 6.55 AM I was cycling to work out of the village where I live on the cyclepath which is next to a field on one side and with a grass verge beside the road on the other. The path had some damp and slightly frosty leaf litter. I had been admiring the moon and the silhouetted trees before the start of the path. As I joined the cycle path, which is quite uphill, I saw movement in front of me and slightly to the right. It was a flitting movement and initially I thought I’d disturbed a small bird. I didn’t stop but focussed on the movement as I passed and instead of flying off upwards, the movement sort of flitted/jumped towards the grass verge. My second thought was wondering if it could have been a grasshopper by its movement, but as I tried to focus on it, I thought it didn’t appear to be a recognisable insect. The shape did not seem fully formed to get a clear image – it was maybe four inches high, very slender, sort of wispy almost like a more solid version of mist, but it was definitely not mist. It had ether-like quality. I heard the kind of noise you might associate with a jinny spinner when they bang against a light, but it didn’t move in the way a jinny spinner would and it was bigger, whiter and moved more sprightly than they do. As soon as my eyes began to focus in on its movements, as it reached the grass verge it completely vanished. I didn’t see it land and there was no movement in the grass of anything settling and no further movements. It wasn’t until after that my thoughts pondered ‘I am not sure what that was’. The whole event probably lasted less than five seconds.’ ‘Undefined wispy, ether-like, about four inches high but very, very slender. Couldn’t focus in on it to see any details – a bit like a wispy spark moving/flitting away.’ ‘It’s about one kilometre away from a fairy well. Not heard of this exact spot having a history.’ ‘It was small and sprightly. It didn’t evoke any fear or awe in me. It wasn’t typical of reports of alien sightings.’ Fairies are ‘entities that interact with mundane reality from time to time and sometimes circumstances mean humans can experience their presence. I think they exist in a way humans can’t understand due to our limited nature of physics and time. They can be indifferent to us, good or bad.’ ‘I do leave offerings at our local fairy well from time to time, but for no other reason than for being respectful to the spirits of place. I don’t hope to get anything from it in fact I don’t expect to see or receive anything as a result of this.’