Gian J. Quasar - Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the Worlds Greatest Mystery

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Gian J. Quasar

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Contents

1 The Bermuda Triangle: A Riddle at a Nearby Shore 1 2 The Riddle of Missing Planes 14 3 The Riddle of Vanished Ships 51 4 Can It Be That Simple? 83 5 Those Who Lived to Tell 97 6 Space-Time Vortices, Zero-Point, and Sunken Worlds 118 7 Clues from a Shifting Paradigm 144 8 Atyantica 168 9 The Warnings of Lunar and Martian Anomalies 189 10 Interest from a Past World? 209 11 Let the Oceans Speak 230 12 A Vast Horizon: An Answer from Without, Within, and All Around Us 249 Notes 262 Bibliography 269 Acknowledgments 283 Index 285

Photos follow pages 82, 143, and 208

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The Bermuda Triangle : A Riddle at a Nearby Shor e

W ITHIN THE WESTERN North Atlantic Ocean there exists what might be called a triangle of sea extending southwest from the island of Bermuda to Miami and through southern Florida to Key West; then, encompassing the Bahamas, it extends southeast through Puerto Rico to as far as 15 North latitude, and then from there northward back to Bermuda. This is the area commonly called the Bermuda Triangle. For all intents and purposes it appears like any other temperate sea. Yet in the annals of sea mysteries there is no other place that challenges mankind with so many extraordi nary and incredible events, for this is where far more aircraft and ships have disappeared throughout recorded maritime history than in any other re gion of the worlds oceans. With few exceptions the disappearances have been in fair weather, sending out no distress messages and leaving no wreckage or bodies. In the last twenty-five years alone, some seventy-five aircraft and hundreds of pleasure yachts have inexplicably vanished despite the fact that GPS is now extensively used, that communication systems are powerful and reliable, and that searches are immediately launched.

Disturbing as these numbers may seem, the circumstances surround ing many of the disappearances are what really give rise to the greatest alarm. From the files of several federal investigating bureaus, eye-opening details emerge that continue to present difficult questions that as yet have no answers within the scope of our present knowledge of the sea, aero nautics, and navigation. One such disappearance illustrates this point.

It was Halloween 1991. Radar controllers checked and rechecked what they had just seen. The scope was blank in one spot now. Everywhere else within the scope seemed normal, and routine traffic was proceeding undis turbed, in their vectors, tracked and uninterrupted. But moments earlier radar had been tracking a Grumman Cougar jet. The pilot was John Verdi. He and trained copilot, Paul Lukaris, were heading toward Tallahassee,