- UFO SIGHTING When: Monday evening, Sept. 22, 2003 - Around
7:30 pm Where: Gahanna, OH (Franklin County, suburb of Columbus)
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- SUMMARY
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- 32-year old Daryl from Gahanna, OH (name changed, phone
number on file) husband and father of two children, called to report sighting
a massive UFO Monday evening.
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- "This was not just a light in the sky," he
said, "it was a huge black 'thing' shaped like a disc,"
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- There were four persons who reportedly saw the object.
Along with the 32-year old primary claimant, other witnesses were his 31-year
old wife, his 13-year old daughter and 9-year old son. All agree the object
was something strange.
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- The four were driving north on Beaverbrook Drive around
7:30 p.m. as dusk was setting in. There was still residual daylight visible
when a massive aerial object became apparent to them. The disc-shaped object
was in front of their car and slowly heading west, almost seeming to float
silently.
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- "At first I thought it was a shadow but then I understood
it was in the sky, and I'm still trying to comprehend what it was I saw,"
the witness said. "I've never been a UFO believer but I can't deny
what I saw. It was massive."
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- "This thing was so large you could have put 3 or
4 "747 jetliners" inside of this thing," the witness alleged.
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- The immense object appeared directly in front of them
and occupied a space, from their perspective, that filled the entire windshield
of their 1994 Honda.
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- "The first thing I started looking for were wings.
I Kept trying to see wings," he said. "But there weren't any.
The object looked like it was just floating, really low, just above treetops."
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- The witness discounts any possibility that the object
was a blimp. "No, this could not have been a blimp, there were no
markings at all."
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- When first seen by the family, there were lights around
the object. There was some disagreement about the color of the lights;
the daughter thought they were orange while the wife said there were multiple
colored lights.
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- The lights that were surrounding the disc-shaped object
were non flashing, according to the witness, but more or less changed color
"in unison."
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- "What was very strange was when the lights went
out and the object went totally black," the witness said.
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- The witness reports trying follow the soundless object
in his car, and notes that it seemed to fly over an area that was not particularly
isolated.
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- "The object looked like it was going over the high
school area," the witness reported, while also noting that he did
not see any people or traffic in the area at the time.
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- "It was just so huge, I still can't believe it,"
the claimant asserts. "At one point it blocked out the sun and we
were in its shadow."
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- "It was so low that the trees were blocking it,
it seemed like it took forever for the object to pass by because it was
so slow."
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- "I could not discern any surface material, structure
or color," he said. "This thing was pitch black after the lights
went out, you couldn't see any surface detail."
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- The witness seemed awestruck even discussing the sighting.
"It was a monster," he said.
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- "I didn't know what to think, it was bigger than
anything I've ever seen."
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- The witness could not tell how far away the UFO was because
of its tremendous size, but it looked as if it was just behind the immediate
treetops. It continued traveling until it was no longer visible behind
the treetops, but their impression was that the object was incredibly low.
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- The object was reportedly visible over Gahanna, Ohio
and the witness is certain that is should have been seen by others.
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- The witness informs that he heard nothing in the news
about this object and found it very strange that there's been nothing on
TV or radio since the sighting.
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- "I thought about calling the police, but they would
just say we're nuts," the witness said.
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- The weather conditions at the time of the sighting were
clear to partly cloudy.
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- INVESTIGATION
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- The Gahanna police department was contacted at 614-471-8080
and the dispatcher taking the call said that she was not on duty yesterday
and that there was no
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- logbook available for her to check, but that Officer
Jenkinson was the dispatcher on duty at the time. She was not familiar
with any reports, however.
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- COMMENT
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- The witness said that his daughter and son have drawn
sketches of the object and that their drawings were very similar. He said
that he will hook up his scanner and try to get the sketches to me through
E-mail. I also furnished him the phone number of Roger Pinson, investigator
with N.I.D.S. (National Institute for Discovery Science) in Las Vegas,
Nevada and encouraged the witness to report the sighting with N.I.D.S.
also.
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- The witness sounded cogent and sincere. Clearly, this
is an amazing sighting report to take, the sheer size of this object is
absolutely phenomenal. The witness, who characterized this object as a
"monster" due to its immense size, seemed to be clear thinking
and certain this could not have been a blimp or other explainable object.
In a case such as this, it is reasonable to assume there were other witnesses
to the event. As an investigator taking this report, I acknowledge that
it is an incredible account to relate but I choose to believe the witness
in his sincerity.
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- Filed, September 23, 2003 KENNY YOUNG
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