Something seemed to crack open after the initial discovery.

Much as, after the purchase of an automobile of a particular make & model, one begins to see that car on every street corner, so too has their previous invisibility transformed into near ubiquity.

Sightings are now commonplace on most continents: forests, orchards, the margins of agricultural lands. A troop was even witnessed recently by no less than nine observers from the windows of an elevated subway car as it passed above an abandoned warehouse speared with ailanthus trees. Ivy had begun to reclaim the crumbling brick. Native grasses sprouted from the gutters.

These things are not unprecedented in the annals of epistemology.

When Roger Bannister broke the barrier of the four-minute mile on a windy day in Oxford, 1954, he crossed a threshold that had offered an almost tangible resistance to the communal human psyche for decades. The world responded by shattering the mark four more times that same summer. 

Thus, what was initially thought to be myth, and then merely a threatened micro-colony, actually functions as one segment of a thriving population covering many thousands of square miles. 

The question we are left with is simple. Why is it that so many people still do not see them?


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