
This film is not really about the UFO encounter as it is about the secret debriefing and interrogation of the crew. Moore knows that the plane was diverted -- what he doesn't know is where or why. The crew are subjected to a brutal questioning, while Moore bucks the bureaucracy to find his men.
Directed by Jud Taylor, who's had a long career in tv including directing five original Star Trek episodes, this film is an adequate, if standard movie. Interestingly, Edward Winter (Colonel Flagg from M*A*S*H) briefly plays an Air Force officer investigating the UFO incident. He will later star in the second season of Project UFO, playing an Air Force officer investigating UFO incidents.
The title is misleading, of course. Flight 412 never really disappears. And Flight 412 was a small Lear-type jet, not the wide-body passenger jet as seen in the poster
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