Mystery in the Alaskan Skies: The Disappearance of Charles Middleton III

A Vanishing Over the Anchorage Skyline

On September 27, 1984, 37-year-old Charles Putnam Middleton III climbed into a small yellow floatplane in Anchorage, Alaska, alongside his friend Roy Pedersen, for what was supposed to be a brief outing to spot moose in the surrounding wilderness. They departed without a specific filed flight plan, a detail that would later loom large in the mystery of what happened next. The yellow Piper A-12 with floats, registered under tail number N3751M, lifted off and vanished into Alaska’s vast sky. The plane, its two occupants, and any trace of their journey have never been found, and both men are now presumed to have perished in a crash somewhere in the remote terrain beyond Anchorage.

The Man Behind the Case: Charles Putnam Middleton III

Public records and missing-person databases paint only a sparse but poignant portrait of Charles. Born on April 25, 1947, he was 37 years old when he disappeared. He stood about 5'10" tall, weighed around 185 pounds, and had brown hair and brown eyes. One especially distinctive detail, preserved in those records, is a four-inch scar on his forehead, a small biographical fact that now serves as one of the only personal identifiers remembered in official summaries. The main photo circulated for his case shows him circa 1965—nearly two decades before his disappearance—underscoring just how limited the visual documentation of his life has been made publicly available....Read More

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