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‘I was eleven years old and riding the bus to school through the rolling countryside of ***, Kentucky, on the way to my school. Mostly open fields, but there are plenty of hills, creeks, and patches of trees as well. It was early in the morning, probably around eight am. I was looking out the window of the bus at the cool, dewy morning when a strange feeling came over me. I looked down at the ground by the bus near a grassy ditch and saw a strange weed growing by it. I had the overwhelming feeling that the weed was no weed at all but a faerie, watching me, that had disguised its form. It gave off such a presence that I was fairly unsettled by the whole thing. I was pretty well taken aback even by this, but when we continued down the road a little further, to my left, was a huge open field beyond a line of fence. Just out beyond the fence was a row of tiny horses, no bigger than squirrels, pure white in color, with bright red saddles, lined up in a row, with one or two laying down on the ground. And accompanying these tiny horses were tiny humanoid beings in bright green jumpers, some riding on top of the horses and some standing beside them. ‘A fairy raid!’ I thought to myself in absolute astonishment. I looked around and no one appeared to be looking out the window at the time but me, which was strange enough. But what was stranger was, looking back, I had no urge or desire to call anyone’s attention to what I was seeing, but just sat there completely awestruck without saying a word. Another odd thing was that as the bus moved away the beings did not vanish, but stayed there, and I saw them from a moving vantage point, even seeing them from behind, until they were out of sight completely. I tried to tell my friends at school what had happened when I arrived, but no one believed me!’ ‘There were white fairy horses with red saddles, and tiny sprites with green jumpers and pale skin.’ ‘I was a child and thought about faeries all the time and read many books. I knew what ‘faeries looked like’. This is what they appeared like to me.’ Fairies are ‘Daemonic entities that can take many different forms depending on the culture and psyche of the person. They are the mysterious ‘Other’ that’s always been with us, and whose form changes as we change. I believe ‘aliens’ are just these entities in ‘scientific’ form, like Jacque Vallee.’ ‘Even though I did not have a particular physical sensation before the event, I had a profound feeling something was about to happen. Because of this experience, I continued to have a profound interest in Faerie long after the rest of my friends had ‘outgrown’ it. I am pursuing a career in folklore and religion in large part because of this experience, and others I have had.’