Sept-Îles, Quebec: BOAC crew sees shape-changing object and six small companions

Around 11:30 p.m., while crossing at 19,000 feet near Sept-Îles, Quebec, Capt. James R. Howard, copilot Lee Boyd and navigator H. McDonnell saw a large cigar-shaped object and six smaller black ovals moving at the airliner's speed of 265 mph on a parallel course; the large object continually changed shape. Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, vectored an F-94 toward the location; the small objects disappeared, according to McDonnell into the large object, which then dwindled and vanished as the jet approached. Howard was questioned by RCAF and USAF officials at Goose Bay and by the Air Ministry in London, which told the pilots they had seen a solar eclipse. Gordon Thayer of the Colorado project later identified the objects as superior mirages, James McDonald disagreed, and in 2010 Martin Shough concluded the object might well have been an unusual mirage. 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.