2003: UFO with man standing inside seen over Westerville, Ohio

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: October, 2003

Sighting Time: 5:30 pm

Day/Night: Daytime

Location: Westerville, Ohio

Urban or Rural: Our home was located in Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. There was a small creek behind out house as well as a sizeable retaining pond. To the south, several miles away, lies Port Columbus International Airport. A relatively short distance to the east is the large Hoover Reservoir.

Entity Type: There was a “man” standing in the object

Entity Description: He was wearing a white or, light-colored one-piece suit from the neck on down. It covered “his” two arms to his wrists. He didn’t wear any glasses hat, or gloves. He wasn’t heavy set, but rather slender. He wasn’t wearing, as far as we could tell, any helmut.

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

Duration: 2 days/ 40 minutes the first night.

No. of Object(s): 1

Size of Object(s): Based upon the size of the person inside, I would guess the object to be around 50 to 60 feet in diameter. As to height, I would guess it to be about 10 feet. Again, assuming the person inside was 6 feet tall.

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): like a rectangle, but with the top edges more rounded.

Color of Object(s): It seemed to be of a dark material except where the sunshine reflected off it. It had five tall rectangular windows. The edges of this object appeared to be “fuzzy” not clear, perhaps because of the sunlight reflecting off it.

Number of Witnesses: Multiple

Source:

Summary/Description: My wife and I were sitting on the back porch and saw a rather large bright object in the south-eastern sky. Looking through 7×50 field glasses [binoculars], we could easily make out an object that had 5 large rectangular windows, with a “man” standing inside. . My wife and I could see him clearly through the windows. He was wearing a white or, light-colored one-piece suit from the neck on down. 

Full Report

The bright object that we saw was not an aircraft, Goodyear blimp, helicopter, Canada geese, space satellite, or the planet Venus. We looked at the object off and on for a period of about 40 minutes. The object was still there in about the same location the next afternoon. The object made no noise that we could detect. It reflected sunlight in the late afternoon or early evening. As far as we could tell, it remained stationary. There was some dark material that surrounded this object, but not any large metallic mass that would constitute the body of some aircraft.

There was a “man” standing in the object. My wife and I could see him clearly through the 5 rectangular windows. He was wearing a white or, light-colored one-piece suit from the neck on down. It covered “his” two arms to his wrists. He didn’t wear any glasses  hat, or gloves. He wasn’t heavy set, but rather slender. He wasn’t wearing, as far as we could tell, any helmut. At one time, he moved a short distance (1 or 2 steps?) toward the left side of the object. It seemed to me that “he” walking communicating with someone on the left side, but we could not see who or what it was because the windows didn’t reach that far. “He” put his left arm up on an object that looked like some type of cabinet. It was the only piece of equipment or, furniture that could be seen. There was a soft yellow light that was coming from inside the object. I don’t remember seeing any facial features or hair on this person.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?
At first I thought that perhaps it could have been one large satellite, but when I looked through my field glasses, I knew that it was not. It also wasn’t birds, an airplane, helicopter, a blimp, weather balloon, or swamp gas.

Witness Background
Both my wife and I are retired educators; we now have a small business.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting
When I first saw this object, I had no idea what it was. Then, it dawned on me that perhaps it was one of those UFOs that I had read about in the past. I am still not sure what it was that I saw.

Reported Sighting? Yes
Reported To: WBNS-TV station/ Much later, to NUFORC
Name: David Noll
Location: Westerville, Ohio, USA