The Bermuda Triangle

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It is a legend that has terrified sailors since Columbus first sailed towards America. Its name is not on any official map, but a quick Google search turns up 10,400,000 web pages, and 101,000 books. What legend is this? It is the legend of the Bermuda triangle. A host of theories attempts to explain the supposedly abnormal events in the Bermuda triangle in a supernatural or physically impossible way. These theories attract the most attention, and are what have promoted the Bermuda triangle to the status of “Legend”. Now, let us explore some of the more prominent ones, namely the Electronic Fog theory, the Hutchinson effect , and government experiments with advanced radar at AUTEC naval base.
Electronic Fog will be the first theory discussed in this paper. Electronic fog is a theory first publicized by Bruce Gernon, and several others have claimed to witness the fog, as they call it. Generally, it is described a gray fog which causes instruments to go crazy, pilots and passengers become dizzy or unconscious, and in some cases, time warps. This is the main theory analyzed in the book Gernon co-authored with MacGregor, and in it, he recounts the descriptions of the fog as given by different people. He recounts that he had flown through a tunnel in a strange cloud that had formed a large ring around his plane, and as he exited, he felt disoriented, so he asked his father who was a good navigator to check their position. Then he saw that all the instruments were malfunctioning and the compass was slowly rotating. They exited the tunnel into a dark fog, and flew through it until it dissipated while they were over Miami Beach . He claims that apart from the instrument malfunction, and the strange doughnut cloud, the flight would have ...

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