The Bermuda Triangle Portal To Another World

Perhaps the most famous and intriguing vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle is the case of Flight 19. On December 5th 1945, Flight 19 took off for a routine navigation exercise from Ft. Lauderdale. The mission consisted of 5 TBF avenger planes, all of which were lost with 14 airmen. The flight plan was supposed to lead them due east for 120 miles, north 73 miles and back over the 120 miles.

All 14 pilots and all 5 planes were never recovered. The Navy Investigators could not determine the cause of the disappearance and could only speculate they must have gotten lost and were forced to ditch the planes after running out of fuel or perhaps crashed due to a mechanical failure. The investigation board believed the subordinate officers of the flight didn't know their position. Charles Taylor, one of the missing pilots, was blamed for the incident. Taylor was said to be an excellent pilot but to often "fly by the seat of his pants" as he twice had to abandon his plane and be rescued in the Pacific. Later, the record was amended because of Taylors mother complaining her son was being unfairly blamed.

The record states, "cause unknown." The PBM Mariner ship sent out with 13 crewmembers to recover and rescue the crew also vanished. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing a large explosion right around the time the Mariner would have been patrolling the area. The rescue crewmen may have been lost due to an explosion, but what happened to Flight 19?

Steven Spielberg attempted to answer the question in his sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The crew of Flight 19 suddenly appears in the Mojave Desert with a bright object nearby. The U.S. government hears of the alien abduction and tries to determine if the aliens plan to land and create an elaborate cover up to keep people from knowing. While the 1977 film had a widely successful reception it is still only a hypothetical explanation. I wish there was some way to know for sure.

The weather had become stormy during the flight but naval records did not show any magnetic difficulties. In 1968, the aviation archeologist John Myhre raised a plane he thought was from Flight 19 but a positive ID could not be made. In 1991, 5 avenger planes were raised off the Florida coast but their serial numbers did not match with those of Flight 19. The planes were later found to have crashed on 5 different days within a mile and a half of each other (2.4 km) From 1942-46 training accidents accounted for the loss of 94 aviation crewmembers from NAS Ft. Lauderdale. In 1992 another expedition found scattered debris but nothing could be identified. Those still searching for what happened have expanded their hunt farther East into the Atlantic. No physical evidence was left behind, only a cryptic message.

It is said the last words heard from the pilots were "we are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, water is green, not white." Officials at the Navy Board of Inquiry stated the planes "flew off to Mars."

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