Another Humanoid

Canterville Ghost said:

I wonder if you will allow me to attribute this as a sighting of another humanoid.

The evening of the 27th there was I recall a rather unusual cloud formation – just before a storm. The clouds were particularly low in the sky, and a rather beautiful purple – lit up by the sun behind. Unable to resist, I went to fetch my digital camera.

The object that appeared in the view finder had an uncanny resemblance to the Michelin Tyre Man (only black). Alas, it always remained too far away for me to be entirely convinced. The whole effect was nevertheless burdened by the aesthetic surreal. Was this I asked myself a visitation, or what in the charming literature of our times is known as an encounter of the second variety?

Alas, on playing back the photos I had taken, all that could be discerned was this rather disappointing speck among the clouds and not the three dimensional form that I believed to have seen with the naked eye.