BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Introduction.
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. According to the US Navy, the triangle does not exist, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the
incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later
authors. In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.
Triangle area
The first written boundaries date from an article by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 issue of the pulp magazine Argosy, where the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.
History
Origins
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950 article published in The Miami Herald by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger
bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out
the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19
alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert
wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering
white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water
is green, no white." He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of
inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars. "Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy,
Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that
Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange
events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizon
