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Even before its publication They Flew into Oblivion attracted the national spotlight. Having an early and still-unfinished copy of the manuscript, Larry Landsman, SCI-FI Channel’s Special Projects Director, pushed for a special documentary to be produced by NBC News Productions and then lobbied Congress through Podesta-Matoon, the nation’s third largest lobbyist, for formal recognition of the subject of this book in Congress. This culminated in a Resolution in Congress sponsored by Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida, which passed overwhelmingly on November 17 at 420-2 votes. This recognition was unique in that it honored 14 US Navy airmen who had vanished 60 years before. They were the men of Flight 19, those 5 Navy torpedo bombers that disappeared in mysterious circumstances off Florida on December 5, 1945. Gian J. Quasar, the man considered the leading expert in the world on the Bermuda Triangle, paradoxically pulls the flight from the Triangle’s clutches to reveal it as...