![]() To my knowledge we did not report our observations but there were reports from other witnesses in the Boston area as reported by the Boston Daily Globe newspaper on 22 October 1957. Suddenly to the south two USAF single engine propeller planes appeared in close formation obviously to us in pursuit of the object which was no longer visible. The object disappeared behind some tall buildings in the Cambridge area. The object was now closer to us but while it was still impossible to judge its distance (perhaps over Harvard University?), one could clearly discern that the pencil-shaped object was indeed solid and metallic looking with a slight golden tinge. As we stared mesmerized over a period of 5-10 or minutes the object suddenly again flipped 90 degrees at such a speed that the eye could not follow the movement and it started to move more rapidly towards the north. It was difficult to judge the distance of the object since we could not tell its size but if it was 200-300 meters in length then it may have been over Brookline Ma or perhaps further west at an altitude of 30 to 40 degrees above the horizon. In effect, as I stared at the object it suddenly flipped 90 degrees and it started to slowly move in our direction. I mentioned to others that it could be a vapor trail from a jet plane but I was told that this was not possible as the object changed directions very rapidly and it was clearly solid. The sky was clear except for some clouds in the western horizon which were slightly reddish as it was near sunset. I stopped to ask what they were staring at and one pointed at an object which to me looked like a long vapor trail. It was 21 October 1957 (about 17:00 to 17:30) and I was walking from class to my dorm (Baker House) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when I saw a large group (20 or 30) MIT students standing next to the Kresge Auditorium staring mesmerized at the western sky. Flying into West South West headwinds at 200 mph, they concluded it could not be a balloon, and radioed Boston's Logan Airport control tower. The control tower said that jets were scrambled and then they saw the object at about 10,000 ft higher than their flying altitude of 10,00o ft, but could not get closer to it. They spotted " a large, white colored disc like object" overhead, which they occasionally would lose sight of as it moved behind overlying clouds. Davis and flight engineer Harold Raney were over the Boston area on a Paris-New York TWA Constellation heading South West at 9:30am. They continued on there track and disappeared from sight in the North East direction. The lights then changed color to white and then changed to a cherry red color and increased to a 45 degree elevation. The object changed to a lighter blue and then split into 2 separate blue lights which each revolved around each other then separated. Watch Supervisor Connelly and 3 other CAA controllers saw a deep blue ellipsoid object in the West at 15 degree elevation moving South West to North East opposite the winds. The pilot gave chase to the object but was unable to close and lost the object. USAF pilot Kirschbaum was flying a T-6 20 miles South West of Boston Ma when he spotted a white tubular 100 ft. Immigration Inspector Hoe, of Boston, had reported having seen, at one o'clock in the morning of December 20, "a bright light passing over the harbor" and had concluded that he had seen an airship of some kind. ![]()
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