Boston, Massachusetts: TWA crew sees large white disc above airliner, jets scrambled
Between 9:30 and 9:40 a.m. on June 1, 1954, the crew of a TWA Constellation from Paris to New York saw a large white disc-like object above them near Boston; the tower said jets had been scrambled.
Background
Between 9:30 and 9:40 a.m. TWA pilot Capt. Charles J. Kratovil, copilot W. R. Davis and flight engineer Harold Raney, on a Paris to New York Constellation heading southwest, spotted "a large, white-colored disc-like object" overhead near Boston, Massachusetts, occasionally losing it behind clouds. Flying into west-southwest headwinds at 300 mph, they concluded it could not be a balloon and radioed the Boston airport control tower, which told them jets had been scrambled. They then saw the object about 10,000 feet above their own altitude of 10,000 feet but could not close with it. The case appears in Brad Sparks's list of Blue Book unknowns and in James E. McDonald's 1968 statement to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.