Are the many unidentified flying objects that have been sighted in the area hijacking boats and aircraft as part of some extraterrestrial survey of human activity?
Are electromagnetic impulses from power sources of vanished ancient--and highly advanced--civilizations causing space time warps that wrench planes and ships into other worlds or dimensions?
Are the disappearances somehow connected with the lost continent of Atlantis?
Just few lines imprinted on the back cover of the book I kind of ran myself into.? The Bermuda triangle, the greatest mystery of all time?, sounded conclusive enough to give it a Reading. And with few brief shuffling through the introduction pages I spend a whole night reading a title I would rather not indulge in.
The first few pages had brief introduction to the author?s background and some details in his research work, so it be better I begin with introducing a little about the author himself.
About the author
Charles Frambach Berlitz, linguist in his own right credited with internationally popularizing the phenomena known today as ’’The Bermuda Triangle, ’’Berlitz became fascinated in mysteries in his writing of The Bermuda Triangle. Although his first book would be The Mystery of Atlantis he enjoyed an extremely popular following with his book on Bermuda triangle come 1974 with sales crossing a whopping 5 million mark.
His other works on same line are --
The Mystery of Atlantis (1969)
Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds (1970)
The Bermuda Triangle (1974)
Without a Trace: New Information from the Triangle (1977)
The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility (1979)
The Roswell Incident (1980)
World of Strange Phenomena (1988)
The Dragon’s Triangle (1989)
Charles Berlitz’s World of the Incredible But True (1991)
Charles Berlitz’s World of the Odd and the Awesome (1991)
Charles Berlitz’s World of Strange Phenomena (1995)
The Plot
Bermuda triangle or Devil’s triangle is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, which is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats and aircraft. The apexes of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Charles starts his book with placing the accounts of mysteries disappearance of missing Navy Flight 19 of five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers and 14 men of December 15, 1945, and other reports of disappeared ships as his examples in exhausting details. At this point I was more interested in skipping the pages and get on with some conclusive reasoning but he keeps on pouring on the details of ships going missing and details of the distress calls and radio interceptions and excerpts of interviews of some men who had their experiences to tell, so far so good.
It’s not until chapter 5 he starts with giving his outlandish and sometime laughable explanations to the whole hyped phenomena. He goes in length discussing Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies, and vile vortices from the fourth dimension.
The audacity with which the explanations is given for the UFO sighted by DR Valentine who happens to be a man of multiple credentials is the height of skeptical investigators going totally paranoid in reasoning. A detail interview with Dr Valentine states his sighting of a UFO in Orlando Florida on august 1963 hovering above a lake sucking the water into it from a height of 100 meters above.
Explanations of how UFO possessing cathode ray generators which would ionize the air in front of the vehicle to create a vacuum in front for the craft to move in that direction desired in incredible speeds. Jet propulsion theories and magnetic charges made from huge coiled generators as in Philadelphia experiment are talked off shamelessly as if the truth is in them. So much for the alien abduction theories.
A whole chapter is devoted on giving explanations for fourth dimension theory and space time warps which are full of such nonsense I can’t believe a person of his credentials can lower him in indulging in such b.s.
What I thought
I found the book highly amusing and unconcerned. Although the book remained committed to an open minded inquiry of the phenomena I could find hardly any relevance to me or to any one, leave aside the skeptics they would relish this surely. It was just a paranoid reinforcement of a man who has done a superficial research on hyped phenomena.