This page will give you a good handle on the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.  The Triangle is two things. One, it is a geographic area of the Earth located off the SouthEast coast of the United States. It generally lies in and around three nodal points: the island of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Two, when most people think of the “Bermuda Triangle” they are really thinking of the enigma of the Bermuda Triangle.  And this enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area in fair weather for no readily explainable reason. 

   No doubt you have wondered about this area and its enigma. It is different from all the other mysteries and phenomena that have gained worldwide popularity.  It is not a subjective mystery, such as in sightings of UFOs or Bigfoot. It is not a mystery that must be taken at somebody’s word. These ships and aircraft existed, they had people aboard, and now they are missing. They exist by registration number in archives and official registers, and investigations were made of most of the cases, so that it is possible to go back centuries and find records where an investigator puzzled over why a ship disappeared.

     In the aviation age, however, mystery intensified.  Aircraft travel relatively quickly compared to ships. Their flight paths are carefully vectored. Their  ETAs are known. Yet they disappeared as often as ships. They present many more mysteries than ship disappearances. They are not subject to piracy in mid-air. Radar has captured them vanishing. Many vanished over shallow water and left no trace. And, most of all, rescuers come quickly to the suspected scene and yet, even minutes later, find nothing.  

   The purpose of Bermuda-Triangle.Org is to provide a sober look at this phenomenon.  It is not a site based on synthesizing hearsay, tabloid news or 30 year old books. What you will see on this website is based on official documentation gleaned over the last 2 decades. I began this as an innocent hobby before it escalated into a vast project, a project to get almost every report possible, to track down every clue, to verify every claim. . . and often to get the figurative door slammed in my face. These official reports form the bulk of the evidence used herein and in Into the Bermuda Triangle.  Carefully sifting through these, with lines censored, pages cut out and paragraphs deleted, has brought to light a pattern interwoven with mystery and tragedy, as one disappearance illustrates.

     One well known case in 1962 vividly brings home the need for careful behind-the-scenes probing. Once again, it involves an aircraft.

   With almost every case the same thing has happened. By the time concrete information is obtained, the story has lost its appeal, and no follow-ups ever find their way into the papers. I have tried to stay away, therefore, from relying on any newspaper accounts. These, unfortunately, have almost always been the exclusive source for any popular account of an incident, whether in a magazine or book, previous to this web site. Approaching the subject from the back door, so to speak, free of the hype and public forum, has yielded more startling information. For instance, no more than a few disappearances of airplanes have been reported in the last 2 decades, yet mystery has struck with skillful hands. Searches of the database of National Transportation Safety Board reveal some 75 aircraft have gone missing. Projecting Coast Guard statistics on missing boats is truly mind boggling, perhaps reaching over 2,000.
   Often when faced with what these reports contain, I have come away badly jolted. It has caused me to revise several well-known cases,  and has made it possible to present accurate accounts of what has transpired in the last 20 years. These last,  I must presume, are here (and in my book Into the Bermuda Triangle) to the public presented for the first time since I know of no other research done in this period.

   By the late 1970s the Bermuda Triangle enigma all but went into the deep freezer. In 1975 Harper & Row published the book of an Arizona librarian named Larry Kusche which purported to solve the entire mystery. Kusche did this using selective case studies. After each case was presented according to its popular rendition The mystery was then countered by the author reproducing newspaper articles which stated things that he used to write away the mystery or said things which contradicted the popular accounts. His summation of the topic was that he had solved it. Although I prefer to believe that Kusche innocently started out to examine the topic, I believe he fell victim to corporate pressure and sales and marketing people at Harper & Row, who preferred the sales of a book that claimed to have solved it all.  It is certain that Kusche was offered a write-for-hire contract, which means he was not in control of the project.

     The result in the public forum was not good. People believed the mystery of the Triangle was all sensationalism and hype. The topic went sailing down the plumbing until I started my own research in 1990. 

     Some twenty years later the concept of the Bermuda Triangle as a serious world mystery has come back, largely under the aegis of this website and my book.

     Therefore I invite you to delve into this famous world mystery. To me it is not supernatural. It is a phenomenon of nature. It is a mystery that still needs to be solved. But I do believe that I have helped toward cracking that mystery, and this website and my book have brought the topic back to a new generation. 

     If you are interested in reading about all this, this web site provides dozens of pages to whet your appetite. Case Studies will give you detailed investigations into some of the more interesting and provocative cases.

   Theories recalls all the conjecture on the Triangle, both old and new, some startling possibilities and some basic concepts, plus exposing some outright mistakes.

     At Site News I’ll keep you posted on anything relevant to the site.

     If you are interested in my personal behind-the-scenes quest in researching this data, you can go here: About Me Many of my sources are discussed, plus there are some tips on researching.

The potential of nature around us, of discovered and undiscovered elements in our world, is too great for us to shrink from probing into some of her mysteries and what they may tell us. Prepare yourself then for a true odyssey, not only one on the Web, but one of the Earth around us.

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