Very interesting - thanks for posting. I can’t believe this wasn’t as well known as any other mystery about planes..such as Amelia Earhart. Can’t say I’d ever heard of it..it wouldn’t be surprising if I had and just forgot..I’ve been pretty much in tune with anything to do with military/aviation...I was always interested in the Bermuda Triangle mysteries so I’m leaning in that direction on this...
“Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the film’s opening, the aircraft are discovered in the Sonoran Desert, in pristine condition with full fuel tanks, one of several mysterious events that imply extraterrestrial activity. In the film’s ending scene, a number of men in World War II-era US naval aviator uniforms are among the people who are returned to Earth from the alien mothership. It is implied that they are the crews of the planes of Flight 19 that turned up in the Sonora Desert at the beginning of the movie, seemingly the same age as at their disappearance. However, the names they give are not those of any of the missing crews of the historical Flight 19.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19
“I can’t believe this wasn’t as well known as any other mystery about planes”
It is a major incident to anyone who is curious about the Bermuda Triangle and aviation.