Over the years, people have speculated the disappearance was caused by anything from interference from the Earth’s magnetic fields, to parallel dimensions, to alien abductions. The 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind even depicted a flying saucer abducting the planes and crew and teleporting them to the Mexican desert.
Aficionados have also continued the search for the aircraft. In 1990, John Myhre believed he discovered one of the planes on the ocean floor, 390 ft. below the surface. A year later, Graham Hawkes claimed to have found all five aircraft. Both were mistaken. While they did find World War II-era bombers, they were unrelated to the disappearance of Flight 19. And considering how dangerous aviation was during this period, 1940’s plane wreckage off Florida’s coast isn’t surprising.
Over the years, people have speculated the disappearance was caused by anything from interference from the Earth’s magnetic fields, to parallel dimensions, to alien abductions. The 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind even depicted a flying saucer abducting the planes and crew and teleporting them to the Mexican desert.
Aficionados have also continued the search for the aircraft. In 1990, John Myhre believed he discovered one of the planes on the ocean floor, 390 ft. below the surface. A year later, Graham Hawkes claimed to have found all five aircraft. Both were mistaken. While they did find World War II-era bombers, they were unrelated to the disappearance of Flight 19. And considering how dangerous aviation was during this period, 1940’s plane wreckage off Florida’s coast isn’t surprising.