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It was also claimed 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's 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 Horizons
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However, a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared in the triangle under unknown circumstances

Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974);Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert

Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees

and In various oceans around the world, rogue waves have caused ships to sink and oil platforms to topple. These waves, until 1995, were considered to be a mystery and/or a myth




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Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beingsDocumented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors

Contrary to popular belief, insurance companies do not charge higher premiums for shipping in this area.

The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands

Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article 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. It was claimed by whom? 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