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UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle
Monday, May 12, 2014 17:00
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123ocean.com Do UFOs Hide in the Ocean?
This is what we ask when strange, inexplicable things happen in the ocean. Our imaginations may swarm with legendary creatures and mythical civilizations on land, but our oceanic mythology (even though the ocean occupies two-thirds of the globe) seems pretty paltry in comparison. For centuries, the Atlantis described by Plato held front position in the marine scene, capturing the attention of researchers, historians, writers and scientists, and given rise to a myriad of books … But in the 20th century, a myth of a new genre, that of the Bermuda Triangle, held the starring role (with the inevitable references to Atlantis, all the same).
Bizarre disappearances and disturbances
The story began with a series of unexplained, spectacular disappearances, involving ships, boats and planes. The general public was struck with wonder, in particular when on December 5, 1945, “Flight 19,” a squadron of five U.S. fighter-bombers, disappeared without a trace in this area of the Atlantic. The hydroplane sent to their rescue also disappeared. In total, 27 men were lost. Many other vessels met the same fate over the years: warships, cargo ships, airliners …
From the 1960s on, extraordinary magnetic disturbances and the presence of UFOs were reported in one specific area of the North Atlantic of about 500,000 square miles, the “Bermuda Triangle,” described by points at Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Miami. Howard Rosenberg claims that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century. The journalist Vincent Gaddis was the first to use the term in “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle,” which appeared in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy magazine.
Theories abound but the mystery remains
All these events inspired various hypotheses, some scientific, some wacky. Some were supported by serious reports, including from the military. The Bermuda Triangle mystery gave rise to so many articles, books, movies, shows and TV series, it was popularized to the point of becoming a great modern myth, and one of the rare few linked to the sea. This fascination with the Bermuda Triangle culminated in the early 70s with the publication of numerous books, including the controversial bestseller The Bermuda Triangle: An Incredible Saga of Unexplained Disappearances by Charles Berlitz.
Los Angeles journalist Howard Rosenberg claimed that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle during the last century. Different theories have been advanced to explain the disappearance of merchant ships or military aircraft in the Triangle, but people also talked about abductions by “entities,” extraterrestrial submarine bases. The fact is that many UFO sightings took place in this area, and it became famous for that fact.
Even today,
the Bermuda Triangle fascinates people:
it is one of the most viewed articles on Wikipedia.
As methods of observation evolved, new explanations came forward: vortices, or “holes” in the ocean, or magnetic disturbances due to Atlantean crystals, or dissociation of matter by acoustic resonance. Prevailing scientific theory is that of giant bubbles. Methane hydrate is stable at depths below 1500 feet and with temperatures below 41°, but in the event of an earthquake or volcanic eruption, vast quantities of gas are released and rise to the surface, creating a boiling surface with bubbles large enough to swallow a supertanker. But that is not all, because this gas is lighter than air, and continues its ascension into the heavens, and could cause the engine of a jet in flight to explode. Which would explain the enigmatic disappearances of ships and aircraft both.
The Strange Project “Blue Book”
This modern-day myth drew attention to a possible extraterrestrial presence in the ocean that would constitute, if not a portal, at least the best hiding place in the world. On multiple occasions, luminous vessels have been observed there, moving around apparently at ease, in the sky or underwater.
Reports made by the U.S. Army shore up these accounts. Following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by the Japanese in December 1941, the Pentagon had given instructions to naval officers (military and merchant) as well as airplane pilots to better identify potential enemy aircraft or rockets in the air, day and night. An unexpected consequence: so many UFO sightings were documented, many of them at sea, that the army appointed a commission to investigate the UFO phenomenon: Project Blue Book. Between 1952 and 1969, this commission studied 12,618 cases of observations and finally admitted that there was no known explanation for 701 of them.
“USO” = Unidentified Submerged Object
Since then, the phenomenon of UFOs in the ocean has become so remarkable that it has almost eclipsed the good ol’ Bermuda Triangle. We’ve even had to create a new name for these saucers bursting up from the ocean or plunging directly into it: a “USO,” or Unidentified Submerged Object.
Some USO observations suggest a capacity of these vessels to divide into several units at the instant of diving or taking off. A report by the Argentine Navy in 1960 on the observation of two USOs dividing into several entities 650 miles off Buenos Aires, even reached the ears of Khrushchev, then First Secretary of the USSR, who sent an emissary to the site.
Perhaps we have here one of the new myths of the 21st century, and yet, the first observations are not at all recent…
Christopher Columbus and the first USOs
On October 11, 1492, shortly before midnight, Columbus was pacing the deck of the Santa Maria when he noticed curious lights off in the distance. He ordered royal officer Pedro Gutierrez up the mast, and he in turn confirmed the strange radiance on the nocturnal horizon. They were then sailing over one of the deepest zones of the Atlantic. Both of them distinctly saw sudden and intermittent rays of light appear and disappear, then travel up and down from the sea to the sky, “like the flame of a candle,” according to the ship’s log.
Since this bizarre sighting over 500 years ago, a lot of ink has flowed about the subject. The anecdote led to multiple interpretations before it ever reentered the journals of today’s many UFO specialists. Countless unidentified flying objects have been seen over the ocean, like these three famous observations in the 19th century (out of dozens), which strengthened the idea of a link between the celestial objects and the ocean:
The brigantine Victoria
- June 18, 1845. According to the newspaper Malta Times, the crew of the brigantine Victoria saw “three luminous objects rise out the sea into the sky. They remained visible for ten minutes and flew half a mile from the ship.” Each object was described as bigger than the full moon, and as bright.
The English corvette Lady of the Lake
- March 22, 1870. The English corvette Lady of the Lake was sailing in equatorial waters of the Atlantic, when sailors observed a glowing, lens-shaped object moving above the horizon and against the wind, as recorded in Captain F.W. Banner’s logbook: “It was like a cloud of circular form, including a semi-circle divided into four, the central axis of division starting in the center to extend far to the outside and curving toward the rear. The thing traveled from a point 20 degrees above the horizon to a point about 80 degrees above. It then settled in the NE after having appeared in the SSE. It faced an oblique headwind and finally settled in the eye of the wind. For half an hour its form remained visible, then it finally disappeared.”
The HMS Bacchante
- July 11, 1881. King George V and his brother, Prince Albert Victor, sailing on the HMS Bacchante from Sydney to Victoria, Australia, reported: “At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up. The lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her… Thirteen persons altogether saw her. The Tourmaline and Cleopatra, who were sailing on our starboard bow, flashed to ask whether we had seen the strange red light…”
It’s difficult, of course, to separate fantasy and reality, but the fact remains that USO observations in the 20th century number in the thousands. Like the incident of March 1963 reported to CINCLANT (Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command) that several submarines, during training exercises, had observed an object moving at over 150 knots at a depth of over 21,000 feet!
Dark Object
by Chris Styles
One of the most famous incidents regarding USOs took place on October 4, 1967 in Shag Harbour, a Canadian port of Newfoundland. It is indeed one of the most watertight cases ever recorded, with many eyewitnesses, including police, military, divers and official reports relayed by the press.
The whole story became the subject of a well-documented book, Dark Object, written by one of the witnesses, Chris Styles.
That evening, many passersby saw an object descend from the sky, touch down on the water, and disappear into the sea. Thinking it was a plane crash, rescue workers, police and the army were alerted, and a search was undertaken. But many witnesses stated it was not any kind of vessel from this planet, and Canadian police certified they saw the object moving underwater at high speed, leaving behind a clearly visible trail.
Then, a second object was seen, similar to the first, which appeared to be searching for the first object. Later, the two objects were seen bursting out of the water into the sky toward the Gulf of Maine.
Norwegian navy fires on USO
A similar case occurred in the Norwegian fjord of Sognefjord on November 11, 1972. Again, a fleet of ships and helicopters was launched in pursuit of a strange vessel that had come down from the sky and continued its journey underwater. On November 20, it was seen again emerging from the black water, but they opened fire on it and the USO disappeared once more into the sea.
Recent USO sightings
Reports come in from around the globe, in the thousands. Hoaxes all, or are there some true accounts mixed in?
Puerto Rico’s “ET Highway”
One place is now labeled as a hotbed of USO appearances: the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, and notably Route 303, scene of so many observations that it is now called “The Extraterrestrial Highway.” For example, on October 8, 2002, police officer Carlos Torres and a resident saw a luminous object jet out of the water, fly around in the sky, then go back under the water. Crazy rumors circulate: one talks about an alien base, located in huge underwater caverns in the deep water off Cabo Rojo. Unless it’s just experiments conducted by a U.S. military submarine base?
In January 2005, the India Daily published an article reporting sightings of USOs in the Nicobar Islands, Andaman, Maldives and Sri Lanka and on the shores of India shortly before the December 26, 2004 ocean tsunami disaster. But what could be the link? Again, the article mentions underwater bases, experiments on plate tectonics by “entities,” whether military or alien, who had triggered the tidal wave…
And the Los Roques archipelago (off Venezuela) is being called “the new Bermuda Triangle.” There have been at least 15 unexplained ‘disappearances’ including a plane in early January, 2013, carrying crew and six passengers, one of them fashion mogul Vittorio Missoni…
Dr. Michael Preisinger and “underwater wormholes”
But the most exciting story comes from a German scientist, who holds a doctorate in history and sociology from the University of Cologne and is an amateur diver. While working in the Bahamas, Michael Preisinger decided to organize diving expeditions to places where many sailors complained their compasses went haywire. Underwater soundings quickly confirmed significant magnetic deviations. At first, Dr. Preisinger wondered if this could be related to the U.S. Army marine and underwater research base located nearby, on AndrosIsland. AUTEC (Atlantic Undersea Test and EvaluationCenter) is a place that ignites the imagination, with rumors of underwater weapons being tested there, and very secret acoustic experiments, and even research on USOs…
But to the researcher’s surprise, when he sent his data to high-level physicists, it was repeatedly explained to him that these disturbances were not unlike those caused by the presence of “wormholes,” spatio-temporal phenomena described by Einstein! A wormhole is in theory a shortcut in space-time between two dimensions. Sketched out by Einstein and Rosen, then defined by John Wheeler in 1956, these “wormholes” (or “Einstein-Rosen bridges”) would be “virtual matter” or ephemeral “transit tunnels,” real doors, ajar, to other universes.
Could the magnetic disturbances
found in Bahamian waters
correspond to the brief appearance
of an “underwater wormhole”
allowing access to other worlds?
This is an area of research that confirms, once again, the strong link between space and the ocean. Many explorers and scientists insist that such a link exists between the deep sea and outer space. In our imaginations too, the abyss joins the Milky Way, making the ocean a sort of airlock, a portal to another dimension, a veritable Stargate of the sea. It could become a highly-original entry to space for us someday. Meanwhile, the mystery remains…
Source: http://www.ascensionearth2012.org/2014/05/ufos-and-bermuda-triangle.html
