OMNI September 1987 - UFO UPDATE by Sherry Baker Five TBM
Avenger torpedo bombers left the Naval Air Station in Fort Laud-
erdale, Florida, on December 5, 1945, for a routine training
mission. But less than three hours later, all five planes and
their crews of 14 were missing. A Martin flying boat (a plane
that can land on water) was immediately sent to the rescue; but
that craft, along with 13 crew members, also disappeared.
Cryptic messages attributed to the flight instructor, including
the cry "Don't come after me; they look like they're from outer
space," have long fuel- ed speculation that aliens were involved
in the planes' mysterious disappear- ance. And now a Poway,
California, man named Wesley Bateman claims he has evidence that
extraterrestrials hurled the planes into space. In fact, Bateman
asserts, at least one of the Avengers is entombed in ice about
6,000 miles above the earth, just over the Bermuda Triange.
Bateman, who says he conducts privately funded UFO research "for
a group of people who w