The book tells the story, sworn to as true, of a young man, dedicated to flying, joining the Navy the day he was seventeen. Sent through the schools, he inadvertantly flies through a clandestine test cloud designed to make planes invisible to radar. He is caught up in a time warp and sent forward in time 47 years into the future, from 1944 to 1991. The time warp they wouldn't believe, Now it can be told.