In the late spring of 1950 my wife and I were going to Dayton to watch the races at Triangle Park. We were riding with some friends and traveling south on State Route 4. We were passing an area between what is now [1998] Area A and Area C of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB). At that time there was a large field between the two Areas. We saw a small round red light about 8" in diameter approaching the highway from our right moving at about 30 to 40 miles per hour. It was about 4 feet above the surface and when it was about 50 feet from the fence along the base it elevated in a straight vertical motion to about 20 feet and cleared the fence and the highway.

There was a railway embankment on the left side of the roadway and the object made another vertical maneuver and cleared the embankment. It then made a vertical drop on the other side of the railway and disappeared from view.

Our friends both worked at WPAFB and decided it was something they were working with on the base. We continued to the races and did not discuss the event any further.