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‘This event happened sometime in the spring or summer of two thousand and eleven. It was evening, dark outside. My friend was parked at the curb in front of my house. We were standing outside her car about to get into it. She was saved [?] towards my house on the driver side of her car. This is a left-hand drive vehicle. I was at the passenger side looking over her car at her… I noticed a white wispy tail of light wrap out from behind the house across the street. It was about twenty-five feet off the ground and moved like an eel or snake does underwater. It was just a long solid light that swam through the air. It was not transparent. It was huge. It was floating in a way. When I saw it it dimmed and then was gone. The way it dimmed down reminds me of dimmer switches for indoor lighting. How you can turn the light up or all the way down to where it’s just off. That’s how it dimmed down. It’s like it saw me and then hid itself. I remember telling *** to look and she said ‘no I’m not looking, I’m not in the mood for this. Get in the car.’ She thought I was joking. I remember seeing the light come out from behind the house, the tip of it and that’s when I pointed at it. More of it came out from behind it like a tail of light. It had no limbs, no face, I didn’t see the end of it just the first half (I assume) of it before it dimmed out or disappeared. I have researched this and can’t find any term for it or any folklore describing it. I did find one picture years ago above an article called ‘ethereal forms’. I do not remember what it said but the picture greatly resembled it. I can also describe it as a glowing ribbon. Very bright like LED lighting. It even moved like a ribbon would if it was light enough and was blowing around in the wind, except it would have to be huge like three feet tall and very long and be glowing super bright. The front part of it, or the first part that I saw of it came to a point (I guess its head?). It was spring or summer. Moderately humid. Maybe seventy to eighty degrees. The house it came out from behind of sits about thirty feet from a pond. This is a housing addition with a lot of forest and woods surrounding it. ***, as it is known, backs up to a nature reserve. The town nestled in the northeast corner of Oklahoma where the woods are thick and stretch for hundreds of miles with fields and prairies with them. When I was a kid, I also would sneak over to the pond in our cul-de-sac and smoke cigarettes. During one of these times, I found a peculiar set up on the shores of the pond. You see, there was a big concrete slab the builders left at the pond likely from when they built the homes. They were new after all. The slab was positioned on the dirt, but it blocked the water from draining into the creek. It was a sort of dam I suppose. I found a little glass bowl with bloody feathers in it. A knife with dried blood on it and dried hay (dried grass or weeds) bent in half and wrapped with a silk purple ribbon. All these items were arranged to form a triangle and with it being so close to such a big body of water, I wonder if it was a witchcraft altar or ritual. I wonder if it was one of my neighbors or the fairies that put it there. I wonder if it is related to the glowing ribbon of flight, I saw swimming through the air so close to where I found those items years before. Who knows? I also remember the house whose property that witchcraft stuff was near. My parents looked at it before they bought the house across from it. The lady had crosses hung in every room and angels everywhere. I wonder if they thought it was haunted and that’s why they sold it. The next tenants of the home seem to leave only a few months after moving in. Some of them complained of banging cabinet doors in the kitchen from time to time. It may be related, it may not be, but all of this occurred very close to the house in question. This area was for centuries Native American Cherokee land and may have been home to them at some point or worse, a battlefield at one time when the Cherokee and Osage were fighting for territory. The Cherokees to this day swear by their beliefs in fairies, the little people. They claim it was the little people that taught them to survive here. They taught them about magic, how to use it, how to deter tornadoes (a common threat in Oklahoma), how to use the local plants for medicine, how to raise crops, etc. The Cherokee people will tell you that fairies are very real and are still in our area and that to this day they still carry a close relationship with fairies. I wonder if it was a fairy of some sort I saw or something else entirely.’ ‘A floating or flying glowing ribbon of bright light swimming through the air in a sort of ‘swimming’ motion. Solid though, not transparent. That’s an important note.’ ‘Fairy is a catch all term for supernatural being. The people who coined the term would call ‘angels’ at one point ‘fairies’. Same goes for aliens.’ ‘After my experience I am open minded to the possibility. I think it is a very high possibility judging from research and many personal paranormal experiences.’