Media1974

NBC airs TV film The Disappearance of Flight 412

When: Oct 1974
Sources: 2 public sources

Glenn Ford, star of The Disappearance of Flight 412, in 1979 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

NBC aired the TV movie The Disappearance of Flight 412, starring Glenn Ford. Two Air Force fighters vanish while intercepting radar UFOs, and the surviving crew is held at a remote base and pressed to deny what they saw. It dramatized the idea of an official UFO cover-up.

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OtherDisappearance of Flight 412, The (opens in a new tab)The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Langford)
OtherThe Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974) (opens in a new tab)Bands About Movies / 2020-12-27

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