  Electroproduction of the omega meson was investigated in the p(e,e'p)omega
reaction. The measurement was performed at a 4-momentum transfer Q2 ~ 0.5 GeV2.
Angular distributions of the virtual photon-proton center-of-momentum cross
sections have been extracted over the full angular range. These distributions
exhibit a strong enhancement over t-channel parity exchange processes in the
backward direction. According to a newly developed electroproduction model,
this enhancement provides significant evidence of resonance formation in the
gamma* p -> omega p reaction channel.
