In Popular Culture
The pulp magazine Argosy published an account of the incident in 1974 which also featured in the 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In The Invincible Iron Man #504 (July 2011), Bethany Cabe finds a plane on the ocean floor while diving, a find she referred to as "Flight 19".
The disappearance of Flight 19 and its connection to the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most well known urban myths of the 20th century. Many alternate theories have been proposed, such as: time warps, ufos, Atlantis and other pseudoscientific explanations. These explanations have become a cottage industry for many authors.
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