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Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery

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A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping his plane, then disappears; eleven hours after fuel starvation, as if calling out from a void, he is heard 600 miles away. He requests permission to land, then vanishes forever. A freighter steams along in placid seas and disappears without trace. A pleasure yacht ghosts past without a soul on board. A pilot calls for help because a "weird object" is harassing his plane. A jet collides with an "unknown" and is never found.

Are these events possible? Or are they a sideshow for the curious and gullible? Over the past twenty-five years alone, more than seventy-five airplanes and more than a thousand pleasure yachts and commercial vessels, along with their passengers and crews, have disappeared for no apparent reason and with no logical explanation. Believe it or not, they are all documented incidents that occurred within the Bermuda Triangle.

Within the pages of Into the Bermuda Triangle, Gian Quasar reawakens the subject with a battery of new and extraordinary cases--the collective results of his twelve-year investigation into phenomena that continue to baffle government officials, investigators, scientists, and the many witnesses to these bizarre disappearances. Drawing on official reports from the NTSB and other investigative agencies, as well as interviews with scientists, theorists, and survivors, this powerful book makes a strong case that the Bermuda Triangle is the most puzzling place on this planet. In this age of technological and scientific accomplishment, there are still things that transcend our understanding, and the Bermuda Triangle is one. In meticulous detail this unflinching account:


  • Documents confirmed disappearances of airplanes and ships in detail
  • Presents a chronological sequence of Triangle disappearances over the past twenty-five years
  • Examines testimony from eyewitnesses and survivors
  • Explores possible explanations, from zero-point energy to magnetic vortices
  • Challenges our assumptions with the sheer weight of accumulated evidence

Whether you?re fascinated by unexplained events or eager to learn the true story behind all the rumors you?ve heard, Into the Bermuda Triangle will shock you and make a case for even the firmest skeptic. It presents the reader with the fact that this earth--far from a conquered host--still has wonders in it that might be to our theories as E=mc2 would have been to mathematicians in the age of da Vinci.

Vanished without a trace!

"The disappearances have not been limited to small craft. A whole squadron of five Navy torpedo bombers, the famous Flight 19, vanished on a routine training flight off Florida on December 5, 1945, after the flight leader radioed, among other things, that both his compasses were no longer working. Although the airplanes had the latest navigational devices and sea survival equipment, the patrol never found their way back, nor was any trace found. Passenger aircraft have included DC-3 and DC-4 airliners, plus several other four-engine models. Military aircraft have even included an eight-engine B-52 bomber. Large ships have included the 504-foot tanker Marine Sulphur Queen, the 520-foot Poet, and the 590-foot Sylvia L. Ossa. In the case of the Ossa, before she vanished she had just signaled that she was near Bermuda--a dramatic reminder of the boundaries of the Triangle. Most of these vessels were carrying cargoes that are fairly safe to ship, such as coal and corn; some have even been in ballast--that is, empty and shipping no cargoes at all. None of these are as inexplicable as 'reappearances,' where a pilot's radio messages are captured receding hundreds of miles beyond where he vanished and hours after fuel exhaustion. In the case of a Grumman Cougar jet which vanished from radar while ascending to 29,000 feet (no part having been detected falling to Earth), the summation of one observer that 'there is just no logical explanation' seems to fit all of these incidents."--from Into the Bermuda Triangle

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Tenacious researcher Gian Quasar reveals the stunning results of his 12-year investigation into Bermuda Triangle phenomena that continue to baffle government officials, investigators, scientists, and the many witnesses to these bizarre disappearances.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-282) and index.

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Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery.

Table of Contents

The Bermuda Triangle : a riddle at a nearby shore — The riddle of missing planes — The riddle of vanished ships — Can it be that simple? — Those who lived to tell — Space-time vortices, zero-point, and sunken worlds — Clues from a shifting paradigm — Atyantica — The warnings of lunar and martian anomalies — Interest from a past world? — Let the oceans speak — A vast horizon : an answer from without, within, and all around us.

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apeksha, June 28, 2006 (view all comments by apeksha)
instead of '' into the bermuda triangle'' i think you should write ''the horror of the bermuda triangle'

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780071426404
Subtitle:
Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery
Publisher:
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Location:
Camden, Me.
Subject:
Maritime History
Subject:
Unexplained Phenomena
Subject:
Bermuda triangle
Subject:
Boating - General
Series Volume:
bk. 2
Publication Date:
20031006
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.33x6.21x1.17 in. 1.38 lbs.

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