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I am often asked what my personal theory or views are on the Bermuda Triangle. I think it really behooves me to address those here, plus add a little history.
So welcome to the great adventure!— for that is what it is to me. I’m no longer the 24 year old who set out to find the answer. I’ve become a geritol Jason still looking for more Argonauts to join him in his continuing quests. The Triangle is a sea of mystery on many levels, one that can only be assailed by adventure and exploration.
Obviously, I do not believe that the Bermuda Triangle is all make-believe or the result of media hype or “pseudo scientific” writers. Nor do I believe that there is some one all-encompassing theory, nor any supernatural explanation. However, I do not equate natural with conventional. Believing that there is a natural explanation is not the same as imploring some simplistic, conventional guess.
For example, airliners encountered unexplained forces over the Triangle in the 1990s that jolted the planes severely, causing a number of injuries and forcing the airliners to divert course and land at Bermuda, Miami, or New York. The cause is unknown. But unknown is not supernatural. Was wind shear supernatural before it was discovered? When a plane flew into the ground around a mountain in perfect weather, was it the mountain gods taking revenge? No. Did we just dismiss it and blame it on “nothing important?” No. Wind shear around mountains was discovered. I can give any number of analogies, but I don’t think they are necessary.
Angels, ghosts, and demons— those are a part of the supernatural world, are they not? What do they have to do with missing tons of ships and planes? Nothing. But these ships and planes and the people they carried are indeed missing, and some vanished in remarkable circumstances. And it is true that UFOs have been reported in the Triangle (and even in one disappearance), that a couple of official reports carry allusions to “Electronic Fog;” and there is evidence for transient magnetic vortices. None of these are supernatural. Nor are they conventional, but they carry potential that has to be explored.
The unexplained points us to where we must look, not from where we must flee. It is illogical and non-science to dismiss anything out-of-hand because there is no familiar cross reference for it in our catalog of answers. Nor should we allow people to worship the unexplained and let them go unchallenged when they use a mere thread of evidence to construct a whole cloth to justify their crackpot agendas and theories.
Unexplained electromagnetic anomalies and atmospheric aberrations in the Triangle have been known since the earliest writers of credibility in the 1960s, such as John Godwin, Vincent Gaddis, and Robert Burgess. Some of these can probably account for some of the missing planes. But no one still knows what causes these unexplained “turbulence,” “chops” and “pulses.” However, this theory cannot account for missing boats. Documentation is so poor for missing boats it is even difficult to get a ballpark figure on how many went missing and where. Perhaps rogue waves did them in, pirates, their skipper’s own mistakes, perhaps something else we know nothing about.
This is why the Triangle is so intriguing— and for a healthy reason. Most people are sincerely curious about the unknown and to what new discovery it may lead us. Documenting the existence, the genuine existence of mystery, is only the first step. Thereafter one steps off from the port of adventure to find the answer.
I spent years documenting the existence of the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle, but this was not for an end in itself. It was to be the guidepost to exploration to find the answer(s). Browsing this website and reading my books should give you an idea where this adventure leads.
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