Glen Ford is Colonel Pete Moore who is in charge of the
Whitney Radar Test Group in THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FLIGHT 412 (1974). During a routine flight exercise to fix bugs
in their program his men of top pilots encounter something in the sky that they
cannot identify or clarify. When two
fighter jets that were scrambled to deal with the situation go missing, the men
of Flight 412 are transferred to a secluded military base where they are
questioned by the CIA.
As Colonel Moore searches for the whereabouts of his three
missing men, the missing men come to the slow realization that the sole purpose
of the CIA’s intrusion in this government exercise is to psychologically force
people who have claimed to have seen a UFO to dismiss their claims (or
beliefs). Now it is only a matter of
time for Colonel Moore to find his men and discover the truth before the
government has the time to cover up the whole incident as nothing more than a simple
accident during a routine training exercise.
The psychological thriller is actually quite well done even
by ’74 standards as it is more concerned with the psychology of the soldiers
than with actually discovering the alien menace. This is a film about the government’s methods
in regard to UFO sightings within their own ranks. The film is written by George Simpson and
Neal R. Burger and directed by Jud Taylor. Taylor is a regular of TV movies
such as BROKEN VOWS (1987), THE OLD MAN & THE SEA (1990), FOXFIRE (1987),
LICENSE TO KILL (1984), MURDER TIMES SEVEN (1990), KALEIDOSCOPE (1990), and
WEEKEND OF TERROR (1970), to name a few, and this fits right in there with
them. The film is a competently made
thriller which forces the audience to ask themselves a lot of questions about
the way our government policies are implemented within their own ranks.
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