Incident #991378
Atwater, Portage Cty, Ohio
Oct 1988
Account
Unnamed boy told Paul Rozich's son he was playing ball in his back yard when the ball went into the woods. Retrieving it he saw an apple tree that had all the apples taken off it, then saw beside a tree a big tan-coloured creature looking at him. He ran.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1988
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Portage Cty
- Nearest Town
- Atwater
- Latitude
- 4102
- Longitude
- 8105
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- yard
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, The Eastern Ohio Sasquatch, quoting the son of Paul Rozich, Tri-County UFO Study Group, quoting a friend.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- light brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- stopped still
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- playing outside
- Action on sighting
- fled