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In this video, we will explore the possible connection between the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle and the massive cloud formations that occur in the region. These clouds, known as hexagonal clouds or honeycomb clouds, can create powerful winds and waves that could pose a threat to any vessel or aircraft passing through them. How do these clouds form? What are their effects? And are they really responsible for the Bermuda Triangle mysteries? Join us as we investigate these monster clouds and their secrets.
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01:03 Where the term 'Bermuda Triangle" comes from
03:30 Testimony of a pilot who survived the triangle
09:04 Why Bermuda Triangle doesn't appear on any map
18:50 A pilot who time-traveled through the Bermuda Triangle
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TIMESTAMPS:
01:03 Where the term 'Bermuda Triangle" comes from
03:30 Testimony of a pilot who survived the triangle
09:04 Why Bermuda Triangle doesn't appear on any map
18:50 A pilot who time-traveled through the Bermuda Triangle
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00:00Hmm, can we estimate how many ships and airplanes were lost in the Bermuda Triangle?
00:05Have their disappearances resulted from human error or weather phenomena?
00:10Let's try to find out.
00:11We have a curious story of the SS Cotopaxi.
00:15This ship vanished in 1925, traveling from Charleston, South Carolina, to Havana, Cuba.
00:22It never reached its destination.
00:24Years later, in the 1980s, a wreck was found 40 miles off St. Augustine, Florida.
00:30Since specialists could not precisely determine what and where it came from, they nicknamed it Bear Wreck.
00:37It took many additional years of work, done mainly by marine biologists,
00:42to identify that this ship was indeed the missing SS Cotopaxi.
00:47This was confirmed in January 2020.
00:50How did the ship just reappear?
00:53And how did it get there, since this mysterious shipwreck isn't even in the Bermuda Triangle?
00:59Now, let's see who came up with this term, Bermuda Triangle.
01:03Can you actually pinpoint the triangle on a map?
01:06No, it's not an officially recognized location either.
01:10The Bermuda Triangle does not appear on any world map.
01:14Nobody has agreed on its exact boundaries.
01:16There are only assumptions with approximations of the entire area,
01:21ranging between 500,000 and 1.5 million square miles.
01:26By all approximations, the region has a vaguely triangular shape.
01:31In 1964, an American author named Vincent Hayes Gaddis
01:36first came up with the idea when writing an article for Argosy magazine.
01:40He used the Bermuda Triangle to describe a triangular region
01:45that has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace.
01:50It is pretty hard to get the number of lost ships and planes
01:53because some ships and aircraft have gone missing without leaving a trace.
01:57Their wreckage in the region has not been recovered.
02:01But the recorded story should help us.
02:04Legends about the Bermuda Triangle date back to the 15th century,
02:08like that of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
02:12When sailing through the Atlantic waters,
02:14he passed by this location in the late 1400s.
02:17In what we now know as the Bermuda Triangle,
02:20he saw a huge flame that seemed to just crash into the ocean.
02:25Later, he saw an unusual light flashing in the distance at the exact location.
02:29Like many other sailors since then, his compass had severe malfunctions.
02:35Flight 19, a Navy plane on a routine schedule back in 1945,
02:41also started the Bermuda Triangle legend.
02:43It was commanded by Lieutenant Charles Taylor,
02:46and it's recorded that he just got lost in the triangle for no reason.
02:51Since pilots had no GPS back then,
02:53they had to trust their compasses
02:55and keep track of how long they'd been flying in a specific direction and their speed.
03:01Shortly after completing the task,
03:03both of the compasses on board stopped working correctly.
03:06Records found after the plane's disappearance
03:09also indicate that Taylor didn't have a watch on that particular day.
03:14The initial report stated that pilot error was to blame for this unfortunate event.
03:19However, because people weren't satisfied with this outcome,
03:23it was changed to
03:24Causes or Reasons Unknown after several reviews.
03:29One surviving pilot named Bruce Guerin
03:32suggested he went through an electronic fog while passing above the triangle,
03:37making him travel through time.
03:39In 1970, when this incident happened,
03:42he was flying his aircraft
03:44when it was surrounded by two huge clouds
03:47that formed a whirlpool and spiraled.
03:49Like many others before him,
03:51he noticed that his navigation devices were malfunctioning.
03:54When he eventually made it out of those clouds,
03:57he discovered that his flight had only taken 35 minutes.
04:01It should have taken 75 in total.
04:04Since he had no other reasonable explanation for what he went through,
04:08he believed he must have been pushed forward in time.
04:12It's not only strange-looking clouds
04:14that have been seen above the Bermuda Triangle.
04:17In 2014, a pilot recalled almost colliding with a flying object
04:22that he could not identify whatsoever.
04:25Some of these strange encounters were even caught on tape.
04:28It's the case of an early 2015 flight
04:31whose passengers noticed a curious object just floating over the ocean.
04:36The pilots have yet to figure out what they actually saw back there.
04:41Okay, not all of the possible explanations have been this unusual.
04:45Oceanographers, for example,
04:47have also tried to explain why ships disappear around here.
04:51So, they recently came back to one of their old theories.
04:55Rogue waves.
04:56These are immense walls of water that just pop up suddenly.
05:00If multiple such waves rise simultaneously,
05:03they overlap like a wave sandwich.
05:06If one single wave can reach over 30 feet tall
05:09and happen simultaneously,
05:11it can create a rogue wave that can surpass 100 feet high.
05:16These types of waves can quickly overtake even the biggest of ships.
05:21Meteorologists came up with their own explanation, too.
05:24Hexagonal clouds.
05:25These unusual types of clouds can generate winds
05:29of up to 170 miles per hour.
05:31And they're pretty significant, too.
05:33Some reaching 20 to 55 miles across.
05:37As such, waves inside these wind giants
05:40can go as high as 45 feet.
05:43The Earth's own magnetic force
05:45might also have something to do with it.
05:48Within the Bermuda Triangle,
05:50compasses point to true north,
05:52the geographic north pole,
05:53rather than magnetic north,
05:55the shifting magnetic north pole.
05:57Some have even explained that
05:59since these two perfectly overlap in the Bermuda Triangle,
06:03it can cause a magnetic phenomenon
06:05that could make navigational devices malfunction.
06:09It's called the agonic line.
06:11The problem is that scientists have discovered
06:14that this line moves each year.
06:16It might have passed through the Bermuda Triangle at one point,
06:19but it's now through the Gulf of Mexico.
06:22Other strange natural phenomenon
06:24found along the coast of Norway
06:26could help explain why the Bermuda Triangle
06:29has claimed so many ships.
06:31There are some deep craters there,
06:33measuring up to half a mile wide
06:35and are 150 feet deep.
06:38Scientists believe they were created
06:39by methane gas bubbles.
06:41This gas seems to be leaking
06:43from deposits hidden deep in the seabed.
06:46Once the gas reaches a certain quantity,
06:48it bursts to the surface
06:50and causes eruptions.
06:52So, do pilots and ship captains
06:55actually avoid this area today?
06:58Could this explain why there are fewer ships
07:00that get lost there nowadays?
07:02But, if you've ever flown from Miami
07:04to San Juan, Puerto Rico,
07:06you probably know that's not true.
07:08As for ships,
07:10if people would avoid the Bermuda Triangle,
07:13nearly all Caribbean vacations would be spoiled.
07:16To this day,
07:17there are a lot of flights
07:19that go over the Bermuda Triangle,
07:20so it's clear nobody is avoiding it.
07:23This place is one of the most heavily traveled
07:26shipping lanes in the world.
07:27Nowadays,
07:28the Bermuda Triangle has heavy daily traffic,
07:31both by sea and air.
07:33But, the Bermuda Triangle
07:35is indeed subject to tropical storms
07:37and hurricanes
07:38that happen very often.
07:40Let's also keep in mind
07:41that the Gulf Stream,
07:43a strong ocean current
07:44that causes sharp changes in local weather,
07:47passes through the Bermuda Triangle.
07:49Besides,
07:50the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean,
07:52the Milwaukee Depth,
07:54is also located in the Bermuda Triangle.
07:57The Puerto Rico Trench
07:58reaches almost 27,500 feet
08:01at the Milwaukee Depth.
08:03So, if you think about it,
08:05the whole mystery
08:06is a perfect combination
08:08of human error,
08:09bad weather,
08:10and a lot of ship traffic.
08:11This was confirmed by data
08:13provided by the U.S. Coast Guard.
08:15If you look at percentages,
08:17the number of ships or planes
08:19that go missing
08:20in the Bermuda Triangle
08:21isn't different from anywhere else.
08:24Disappearances do not happen more often
08:26than in any comparable region
08:28of the Atlantic Ocean.
08:29Official statistics say
08:31around 50 ships and 20 airplanes
08:34have vanished
08:35while traveling through this region.
08:36So, that's another reason
08:38why the total number
08:39is so hard to pinpoint.
08:41Nobody could describe its rescue
08:43in official records
08:44if a boat was reported missing.
08:47There were also some events
08:48that, it turns out,
08:50didn't happen at all,
08:52adding to those false reports.
08:54Like that of a plane crash
08:55back in 1937
08:57off Daytona Beach, Florida
08:58that local papers
09:00surprisingly revealed
09:01nothing about.
09:03On his very first voyage
09:04to the New World in 1492,
09:07Christopher Columbus
09:08sailed through
09:09the Bermuda Triangle.
09:10Columbus reported that
09:12one night,
09:12when he was on the deck
09:14of the ship,
09:14he noticed a giant light
09:16appear in the distance,
09:17unlike anything
09:18he had ever seen before.
09:20Columbus looked at his compass
09:22for direction,
09:22and it gave off
09:23erratic readings.
09:24You might have noticed
09:26that the Bermuda Triangle
09:27doesn't appear
09:28on any world map.
09:29This is because
09:30official institutions
09:32refuse to acknowledge
09:33that the area
09:34actually exists.
09:36As you probably know,
09:37the Bermuda Triangle
09:38is situated near
09:40the Bahama Islands.
09:41There's a strange structure
09:42around the bottom
09:43of the islands.
09:44The bottom of the ocean
09:45here is inconsistent.
09:47Every now and then,
09:48some otherwise sandy floor
09:50is replaced
09:51by giant dark holes,
09:53like a living place
09:54for some giant eel.
09:56The most common problem
09:57with those caverns,
09:58named blue holes,
10:00is that sometimes
10:01tidal waves
10:02can make them produce
10:03vortices and whirlpools.
10:05Experienced divers say
10:06that they're like waterfalls
10:07in the middle of the sea.
10:09In March 1918,
10:12carrying a crew
10:13of 306 people,
10:14the USS Cyclops
10:16left Barbados
10:17and headed home
10:18to Baltimore.
10:19The ship passed
10:20through the Bermuda Triangle
10:22on its journey
10:22and was never
10:23seen again.
10:25The Cyclops
10:26never issued
10:26any distress signal
10:28and disappeared
10:29without any explanation,
10:31making it
10:31the largest ship
10:32to go missing
10:33in the Bermuda Triangle.
10:34No wreckage
10:35has ever been found.
10:37No one exactly knows
10:39how many ships
10:40and planes
10:40have disappeared
10:41in the Bermuda Triangle.
10:43The rough estimate
10:43is 50 ships
10:45and 20 planes.
10:46Most of the time,
10:47the disappearances
10:48had no explanation
10:49and no wreckage
10:51has ever been left behind.
10:53A lot of Bermuda Triangle
10:54stories feature reports
10:56allegedly received
10:57from missing aircraft
10:59and ships.
10:59There are reports
11:00about strange
11:01cloud formations,
11:03tunnels in the air
11:04or above water
11:05or the sudden appearance
11:07of thick fog
11:08sparkling with electric lights.
11:10As legend suggests,
11:12some of these anomalies
11:13are not only capable
11:14of completely disorienting
11:16any vessel,
11:16but also removing them
11:18from where they were
11:19altogether.
11:21Some enthusiasts
11:22of this theory
11:23draw a line
11:24between it
11:25and the experimentations
11:26of Joseph Hutchinson,
11:28who is trying to prove
11:29that electromagnetic fields
11:30can collide with each other
11:32and produce all kinds
11:33of disturbances
11:34to reality itself.
11:36He's done
11:36countless experiments
11:38in which electromagnetic fields
11:40were able to make objects
11:41levitate,
11:42fly out of the water
11:43and begin to illuminate.
11:45Hutchinson himself
11:46thinks that similar things
11:47may have their place
11:48in special places
11:50like the Bermuda Triangle.
11:52There are some strange structures
11:54lying at the bottom
11:55of this eerie area.
11:56Some even reported
11:58the presence
11:58of giant pyramids here.
12:00In reality,
12:01the only giant things here
12:02are overstatements.
12:04The structures
12:05don't look like pyramids
12:06at all.
12:06They are called
12:07the Bimini Road.
12:09It lies northwest
12:10of the shore
12:11of North Bimini Island.
12:12In fact,
12:13it consists of two
12:14strange rock formations.
12:16Both look suspiciously
12:17like building blocks.
12:19Research showed
12:20that underlying
12:21ground layers
12:22beneath the Bimini Road
12:23feature nothing
12:24but bedrock
12:25with no possible
12:26cavities in it.
12:27That totally excludes
12:28any possibility
12:29of these rocks
12:30being part of a building.
12:32In the year 1800,
12:34a large sailing vessel
12:36called the USS Pickering
12:37departed from the U.S.
12:39on its way
12:39to the West Indies.
12:41The ship sailed
12:42into the Bermuda Triangle
12:43along with its 90-man crew
12:45and was never
12:46heard from again.
12:47The USS Pickering
12:48was the first ever
12:49confirmed ship
12:50to vanish
12:51in the Bermuda Triangle.
12:52It's believed
12:53that the ship
12:54was taken out
12:54by a storm,
12:55but because no wreckage
12:57was ever found
12:58we'll never know
12:59for sure.
13:00William Shakespeare's
13:02famous play
13:03The Tempest
13:03was inspired
13:04by the Bermuda Triangle.
13:06Sailors returned
13:07home to England
13:08to tell stories
13:09of treacherous waters
13:10near the Bahamas
13:11where ships
13:12mysteriously disappeared.
13:14These stories
13:15made it back
13:15to the bard himself
13:17and inspired
13:18his final play
13:19about a storm at sea
13:20transporting a ship
13:21to a mysterious land.
13:23The shipwreck
13:24in Shakespeare's play
13:25is based on
13:26the 17th century
13:27ship Sea Venture.
13:29The ship
13:29was carrying supplies
13:30from England
13:31to Virginia
13:32when it was struck
13:33by a massive storm
13:34in the Bermuda Triangle.
13:35Sea Venture
13:36was battered
13:37by the storm
13:38for three days
13:39and barely made it
13:40to the shore.
13:41Survivors of the wreck
13:42were stranded
13:43on a desolate stretch
13:44of Bermuda
13:44for nine months.
13:46The floor of the ocean
13:48in the area
13:48is littered
13:49with shipwrecks
13:50from all over the world
13:51and of all ages.
13:53And, as you can imagine,
13:55this is a sweet spot
13:56for treasure hunters
13:57brave enough
13:58to challenge
13:58the mysterious waters
13:59of this place.
14:00One of these treasure hunters
14:02was lucky enough
14:03to come across
14:04a secret map
14:05made from the orbit
14:06of the planet
14:07in the 60s
14:08during one of the first
14:09flights into space.
14:10This map reveals
14:12a lot of shipwreck
14:13coordinates
14:13in the Caribbean area.
14:15The luckiest
14:16treasure hunter
14:17in the world
14:17believed that
14:18these coordinates
14:19should lead
14:19to the remains
14:20of the ship
14:20that was part
14:21of Christopher Columbus's
14:22expedition.
14:23What he found there
14:24was a huge,
14:26unidentifiable object
14:27plastered with layers
14:28and layers of coral.
14:30It had long protrusions
14:32sticking out of it
14:33in bunches of five
14:34in different directions.
14:35Two more identical objects
14:37were found nearby.
14:39Just off the coast
14:40of Japan,
14:41you'll find
14:42the Bermuda Triangle
14:43of the Pacific Ocean.
14:45Between 1950
14:46and 1954,
14:48nine ships
14:49disappeared in this area
14:50without leaving a trace.
14:51The ship
14:52Kayo Maru 5
14:53was sent to investigate
14:55these unexplained
14:56disappearances
14:56when it also vanished.
14:58After this incident,
15:00the Japanese authorities
15:01labeled the area
15:02a danger zone
15:03and sailors
15:04are encouraged
15:05to avoid it.
15:07The local people
15:08of Andros Island,
15:09part of the Bahamas,
15:10have a legend
15:11in their folklore
15:12about a giant,
15:13vile,
15:14octopus-like creature
15:15named Luska.
15:16Nobody knows
15:17how big
15:18this creature could be,
15:19but they believe
15:20it is responsible
15:21for the disappearance
15:22of vessels in the area.
15:24Strangely enough,
15:25some giant octopuses
15:26were seen
15:27and even caught nearby,
15:29though they weren't
15:30nearly as big
15:31as the legendary creature.
15:32On the other hand,
15:34a giant octopus
15:35capable of dragging
15:36ships to rock bottom?
15:38Hmm,
15:39none have grown
15:39to a size this big
15:40as far as we know,
15:41so this version
15:42doesn't seem
15:43too concerning.
15:45The Bermuda Triangle
15:46is one of the rare places
15:48on the planet
15:48where true north
15:50and the magnetic one
15:51are in the exact
15:52same direction.
15:53True north
15:54is the geographical
15:55north pole
15:56of our planet.
15:57Magnetic north
15:58directs to the north
15:59magnetic pole,
16:00which constantly
16:01wanders around the Earth.
16:02Sometimes,
16:03these poles coincide,
16:05and the straight line
16:06that connects
16:06north and south
16:07is called
16:08the agonic line.
16:09If you fall
16:10into this line,
16:11your compass
16:12will behave strangely.
16:13It won't point
16:14exactly to the north.
16:17Astronauts
16:17of the International
16:18Space Station
16:19notice the Earth's
16:20magnetic field
16:21is weakened
16:22in the Bermuda Triangle
16:23area.
16:23This field
16:24is a shield
16:25that protects us
16:26from solar radiation.
16:28Above the triangle,
16:29the particles
16:30of the sun's rays
16:31move faster
16:31than in any other
16:32part of the planet.
16:34This causes
16:35unstable work
16:36of electronics
16:36of satellites
16:37flying in the
16:38atmosphere of Earth.
16:39It doesn't apply
16:40to ships and planes,
16:41though.
16:42The Bermuda Triangle
16:43is one of the most
16:45heavily traveled
16:45shipping routes
16:46in the world.
16:47Some skeptics
16:48believe that
16:49this fact
16:49solves the
16:50Bermuda Triangle
16:51mystery.
16:52Statistically,
16:53the busier
16:53the area,
16:54the higher
16:55the frequency
16:55of accidents
16:56and disappearances.
16:57While this
16:58makes sense,
16:59it's not the
17:00frequency of
17:00disappearances
17:01that's responsible
17:02for the mystery
17:03of the Bermuda Triangle.
17:04It's the lack
17:05of explanation
17:06or wreckage found.
17:08A popular theory
17:10suggests that
17:10rogue waves
17:11are responsible
17:12for the many
17:13disappearances.
17:13rogue waves
17:15are called
17:15extreme storm waves
17:16by scientists.
17:18They occur
17:18when different
17:19weather patterns
17:20take place
17:20at the same time
17:21and cause
17:22large,
17:23unexpected waves
17:24that reach up
17:24to 100 feet tall.
17:26Witnesses say
17:27that the waves
17:28look like
17:28giant walls
17:29of water.
17:30These waves
17:31could explain
17:32why ships
17:32go down fast
17:33and without
17:34leaving any trace.
17:36Alaska
17:37has its own triangle.
17:38Since the late 80s,
17:4016,000 people
17:41have disappeared there.
17:43Eyewitnesses
17:44to the Bermuda Triangle
17:45anomaly
17:45talk about
17:46thick fog,
17:47lightning,
17:48balls of light,
17:49and hallucinations.
17:50In Alaska,
17:51everything's a bit
17:52more complicated.
17:54People,
17:54planes,
17:55ships,
17:56they just
17:56disappear
17:57without a trace.
17:58There's no one
17:59around to tell us
18:00what it felt like.
18:01In 1950,
18:03a plane took off
18:04from Anchorage,
18:04Alaska,
18:05headed for
18:05Great Falls
18:06in Montana.
18:07It was carrying
18:08eight crew members
18:09and 36 passengers.
18:10Two hours
18:11after the start
18:12of the flight,
18:13the captain
18:13radioed that
18:14everything was fine.
18:16And then,
18:17silence.
18:18The 100-foot-long
18:20plane seemed
18:20to evaporate
18:21into thin air.
18:2385 aircraft
18:24and around
18:257,000 people
18:26searched for the plane.
18:27No trace.
18:29Not even a screw,
18:30bolt,
18:31nothing.
18:31That plane mystery
18:33made the Alaskan
18:34Triangle famous.
18:35If you look on a map,
18:36it's a wild
18:37and mostly
18:38unpopulated zone
18:39that passes
18:40near Anchorage,
18:41Barrow,
18:41and Juneau.
18:42Hey,
18:43I didn't know
18:43about the Alaskan
18:44Triangle.
18:45Juneau?
18:46Yeah,
18:46that must be
18:47an old joke.
18:49December 4,
18:501970.
18:51Pilot Bruce Gernand
18:53had two passengers
18:54on board his
18:54Beechcraft Bonanza
18:55single-engine aircraft,
18:57his father
18:57and business partner.
18:59They took off
18:59from Andros Island
19:00in the Bahamas
19:01and headed northwest
19:02for the Florida coast.
19:04Sure,
19:05they were in
19:05the infamous
19:06Bermuda Triangle's
19:07airspace.
19:08But this was
19:08a typical flight
19:09Bruce had made
19:10dozens of times before.
19:12The trip usually
19:13took about an hour
19:13and a half
19:14with no hiccups
19:15whatsoever.
19:19Bruce took off
19:20and started gaining
19:21altitude.
19:22Strange things
19:23started happening
19:24right from the get-go.
19:25At first,
19:26he noticed
19:26a small cloud
19:27up ahead.
19:28But it kept growing.
19:30Not from the plane
19:31getting closer,
19:32this thing was
19:33actually getting
19:34bigger in size.
19:35Bruce had to
19:36fly through it
19:36and he came out
19:37the other end
19:38just fine.
19:39He gained altitude
19:40and yet another
19:42mysterious cloud
19:43appeared.
19:43This one was massive
19:45and Bruce had
19:45no other choice
19:46but to fly through
19:47it too.
19:48At that moment,
19:49it got dark as night
19:51all around the aircraft.
19:52But this wasn't
19:53a storm cloud
19:54and it wasn't raining.
19:56Bruce was starting
19:57to get worried
19:57and then...
19:58BAM!
19:59He saw flashes
20:00of white light.
20:02Bruce kept flying
20:02for another 30 minutes
20:04when he realized
20:05this was the same cloud
20:06he had gone through
20:07earlier when he started
20:08to climb.
20:09But now the cloud
20:10was cylindrical
20:11and the plane was flying
20:12through its center.
20:13It was wide
20:14and seemed endless.
20:16Bruce thought
20:17he could never get
20:17out of that trap.
20:19But a minute later,
20:20he saw light
20:21at the end of the tunnel.
20:22But all of a sudden,
20:24the walls of the cloud tunnel
20:25began to narrow.
20:26They were closing in
20:27on the plane.
20:28The navigational instruments
20:29started wigging out.
20:31The compass was spinning
20:32by itself,
20:33counterclockwise.
20:34The walls kept narrowing,
20:36smaller and smaller,
20:37wrapping like a vortex.
20:38The electrical instruments
20:40still going haywire.
20:41Bruce was running
20:42out of time.
20:43He had to get out
20:44of this place fast.
20:45A grueling 20 seconds later,
20:47he burst out
20:48of this foggy trap.
20:50As Bruce described later,
20:52he felt weightless
20:53for five seconds
20:54as his plane
20:55left the tunnel.
20:56The clouds dispersed
20:57and now the aircraft
20:59was in a grayish haze.
21:00The men let out
21:02a big sigh of relief.
21:03He immediately grabbed
21:05the radio
21:05and contacted ground control
21:07to determine his location.
21:08But when the dispatcher
21:10looked at the green screen,
21:11his face became contorted
21:13with confusion.
21:14Bruce's plane
21:15wasn't on the radar.
21:17It was as if the thing
21:18was invisible.
21:19But then the dispatcher
21:21said the aircraft
21:21was already
21:22in Miami airspace.
21:24Bruce was utterly shocked.
21:26It just couldn't be true.
21:27Remember,
21:28the whole trip
21:29usually took
21:30around 90 minutes.
21:31But this time,
21:32it took just 47 minutes
21:34to get to the destination.
21:35His plane
21:36didn't magically gain
21:38some supersonic speed
21:39beyond the model's
21:40limited max cruising speed.
21:42This was physically impossible.
21:44The dispatcher
21:45must have made a mistake.
21:46But when the clouds parted,
21:48Bruce saw
21:49that he really was
21:50over Miami.
21:51The plane landed safely
21:52and it was time
21:53to try and solve
21:54this mystery.
21:55Bruce checked
21:56the remaining fuel
21:57and his watch.
21:59After a short calculation,
22:00he was only
22:01more confused.
22:02The plane hadn't gone
22:04through the amount of fuel
22:05it should have.
22:06Archive records
22:07show that 84 sunspots
22:09were recorded that day,
22:11as well as
22:11a huge solar wind.
22:13This would cause
22:14disturbances
22:15in the Earth's
22:15magnetosphere
22:16that could throw off
22:17the plane's instruments
22:18and radars.
22:19But so far,
22:20no one has been able
22:21to explain
22:22how the plane
22:23got to Miami
22:24so fast.
22:25Maybe in the future,
22:26the truth will be revealed.
22:28In the meantime,
22:29it remains
22:30another mysterious riddle
22:31of the Bermuda Triangle.
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