Bermuda Triangle Conspiracy

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Is the Bermuda Triangle mystery finally solved? The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western section of the North Atlantic Ocean, where is believed a number of aircraft and ships are said to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. Most sources deny that there is any mystery. The proximity of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world. There are constantly ships crossing through it for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean islands. Including, cruise ships and pleasure craft regularly sail through the region, and commercial and private aircraft routinely fly over it. Popular culture has connected many disappearances to paranormal activity by alien lifeforms. Documented evidence shows …show more content…

Reports of unexplained disappearances did not worry people until the twentieth century. An infamous incident occurred in March of 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a five-hundred and forty two foot-long Navy Cargo ship with over three-hundred men and ten-thousand tons of manganese ore onboard, sank between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out a distress call despite being equipped to do so. An extensive search found no wreckage of the cargo ship. In 1941, two of the Cyclops’ sister ships disappeared without a trace nearly along the same route. A pattern supposedly began forming in which vessels passing through the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. In December 1945, Navy bombers carrying fourteen men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida airfield. But, with his compasses malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, Flight 19, got severely lost. All of the planes flew hopelessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew vanished. After weeks of searching with no evidence, Navy reports declared it was as if “they had flown to

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