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‘***, Glasgow 1998. It was late afternoon in the city. After many weeks of intense work, I was completely relaxing in my third-floor tenement flat in Glasgow. From my lounge I could look out across the city roofs and observe the sky. On this particular day, as it moved towards dusk, the sky was like a spectacular Turner painting: incredible colors and cloud formations which constantly changed with the wind. Gazing at this natural ‘show’ I became deeply relaxed and unencumbered by any worries. I must have been observing this for well over half an hour when I noticed that, across the other high rooftops nearby, bobbed a little round cloud, growing ever nearer to my building. The cloud drifted and settled directly outside my window and was then, suddenly in the centre of my room…! I observed as the cloud swirled in an incredibly dynamic and purposeful way and there before me was, instead, a small man (about fourteen inches) with huge wings (two to two and half times the length of his body which I can at best liken to being like dragonfly wings) and a beard with ginger curls (so large that they appeared to defy gravity). He hovered in the middle of the space, holding on to an apparatus, something like a parachute, which appeared to be helping him to remain in position. His form seemed to be made from constantly moving, vibrating light and he was every color of the clouds and sky on that evening. It was at this point I blinked and found I could no longer see him… My body jolted to at this point also, as you do when you have a dream of falling, and it seemed later/darker than it had before I blinked…’ ‘My understanding now is that [fairies] are distinct beings, not one and the same being which appears in different guises to suit the observer. Having since researched what I saw, I believe him to have been an ‘air sylph’. Why an air sylph chose to come to me that day I still don’t know!’ ‘In my opinion fairies are beings who exist on another ‘layer’ of reality to us whom are made from a lighter, more mutable substance than ourselves.’ ‘If you choose to make this story public, I would prefer that I be given credit’.