Media1986

Flight of the Navigator released

When: 1986
Sources: 1 public source

Joey Cramer, who played the 12-year-old navigator David Almagordo; derivative work by Keraunoscopia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Disney released Randal Kleiser's Flight of the Navigator, in which a 12-year-old returns home to find eight years have passed while he has not aged. He learns he was aboard an alien craft, a missing-time premise familiar from abduction accounts.

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OtherFlight of the Navigator (opens in a new tab)The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Langford) / 2017-01-18

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