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Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and watercraft are believed to have mysteriously disappeared. It is also referred to as the “Devil’s Triangle.”

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Which episode of men behaving badly does tony sing Bermuda triangle?

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S5E6 - Rich and Fat. about 13 minutes in

Is Bermuda a real place?

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Yes. Bermuda triangle is a real place

What is going on in the Bermuda triangle?

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Life goes on; see the link below.

What is new at Area 51?

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The quick answer: Nobody really knows for sure...however, there probably aren’t any aliens there. Nonetheless, we’ve got some information on the legendary site’s secrets.

First, a quick primer: Area 51 is about 150 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, and it’s a military testing facility shrouded in secrecy. You won't hear the government call it Area 51—publicly, they use names like Groom Lake, Homey Airport, or the Nevada Test and Training Range.

The United States government didn’t officially acknowledge Area 51’s existence until 2013, when the CIA responded to Freedom of Information Act requests by declassifying a secret report.

Thanks to that document, we can address a few of the rumors and myths surrounding the facility:

First, that it’s an aircraft testing facility. This is the only rumor confirmed by the U.S. government. The Armed Forces tested various experimental aircraft, including the Lockheed U-2 and A-12. The latter was tested under the project name OXCART, and early versions of the craft looked completely...well, alien. More on that in a moment.

As the CIA classifies the site as a “black project,” nobody is allowed to discuss what happens there—or, at least, not until many years later.

The site’s secrecy is serious business. One Area 51 veteran told The Seattle Times that he was tasked with clearing the debris from a crashed A-12; when he arrived on scene, a local deputy had already arrived, along with a vacationing family. The family was taking pictures.

“We confiscated the camera, took the film out,” the veteran told the paper. “We just said we worked for the government. ...We told them there would be dire consequences [for discussing the crash].”

Next, that it’s where the government keeps the aliens. Obviously, the 2013 report didn’t go into Area 51’s alien myth, but since we know that the government was testing experimental aircraft at the facility, it’s reasonable to conclude that those aircraft were responsible for the numerous UFO sightings in the immediate area.

In fact, the previous anecdote might help explain where the alien myths started. Picture this: You see a strange aircraft fall to the ground, then people from the government show up and warn you not to say anything. If you're an imaginative person, you might assume that aliens were involved.

Those who worked at Area 51 in the 1960s say they never saw anything related to aliens, but that the CIA probably doesn’t mind the stories about extraterrestrials—those stories helped prevent real information about top-secret aircraft from getting out.

Of course, conspiracy theorists claim this is all part of the coverup.

Finally, that it’s where the government researches time travel and weather control. Again, the report doesn’t address these conspiracies, but people who worked at the facility say Area 51’s activities were largely confined to the development of aircraft and advanced training for highly qualified pilots.

All of the declassified Area 51 information is fairly old, and it’s quite possible that the Armed Forces are using the area for something else by now. We can’t really say—that’s the entire point of a top-secret military facility.

In any case, no amount of transparency will stop the conspiracy theories. The mysterious contents of Area 51 have been parodied in the media for decades, from the facility’s appearance in Independence Day (which reportedly caused the U.S. government to stop cooperating with the film’s producers) to a recent social media campaign to “storm Area 51.”

That campaign, by the way, has attracted some serious attention. More than a million people have indicated that they’re going to the “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop Us All" event, which will supposedly take place on Sept. 20 at 3 a.m.

The meme has gotten large enough to prompt a response from the United States government.

"The U.S. Air Force is aware of the Facebook event encouraging people to 'Storm Area 51,'" an Air Force spokesperson said. "The Nevada Test and Training Range provides flexible, realistic and multidimensional battlespace to test and develop tactics as well as conduct advanced training in support of U.S. national interests. Any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged."

For the most part, the event is a joke (and there are plenty of memes to prove it), but some people seem to be taking it seriously. The New York Times reports that the Little A'Le’Inn hotel in Rachel, Nevada has received an “unusually high number of reservations" for Sept. 20.

“They’re pretty serious,” Connie West, a co-owner of the inn, told the paper. “They’re coming. People are coming.”

If you’re one of the people considering “storming Area 51,” reconsider; signs in the area warn intruders that they face prison time or deadly force. Besides, if you manage to get past the base’s considerable defenses, you probably won’t see anything other than some experimental aircraft—no aliens.

What was the first ship to sink in the bermuda triangle?

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Flight l9, a training squadron of USN (Avenger) torpedo bombers. planes of this type successfully sunk Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway, so were a combat-ready craft.

Did Amelia Earhart's plane crash in the Bermuda triangle?

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It is believed so: when Earhart's plane disappeared, she had last been heard about 100 miles off Howland Island in the Pacific, on 2 July 1937. As to her fate: Speculation has been rife over the years regarding what happened to Amelia Earhart. The usual conspiracy theories and alien abduction theories have abounded. Some have claimed Earhart was captured in the South Pacific Mandate area by the Japanese and interned for a number of years before either perishing or being executed. This originated when a man, then 15, claimed he had been toying with his radio and a woman came upon the speaker, claiming to be Amelia Earhart. There was then a scream and the woman said Japanese soldiers had entered the plane, she begging them not to hurt her. Then the transmission went dead. Regardless of the rumours, no evidence has ever been found to substantiate them, and the circumstances surrounding Earhart's disappearance remain a mystery.

What were the dates of when the ships went missing in the Bermuda triangle?

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Monday, June 1st, I read a story of a mysterious plane dissapearence in the Atlantic. The Flight was coming from Rio de Junero and going to Paris, France. The plane was carrying over 250 passangers and the suspected area of its dissapearence is just south of the triangle. Is it possible that the triangle may be growing to claim more victims?

Who found the Bermuda Triangle?

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Anyone who has visited Bermuda, Peurto Rico, Nassau and the Bahamas.

How did the Bermuda triangle come to be a mystery?

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The first record that suggested that there was something unusual about disappearances in the area of Bermuda was an Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones in 1950.

The first use of the term was in a 1964 article with a similar theme that was published in 'Argosy' by Vincent Gaddis called 'The Deadly Bermuda Triangle'.

Then in 1974, two books were published, 'The Bermuda Triangle' by Charles Berlits and 'The Devil's Triangle' by Richard Winer. These books turned out to be very popular and the idea caught on, making this an excellent subject to sell books and magazines. These two books were the source for the popular terms.

Who first discovered the Bermuda triange?

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The term was first popularized by of all people, the Fishing columnist ( and once very popular on TV and radio) Vincent (Gadabout) Gaddis. He wrote a book called evasive horizons or a similar- maybe invisible Horizons- about the Bermuda Triangle, numerous lost ships and aircraft in the area and so on. Mr. Gaddis in a sense popularized the Bermuda Triangle. He is better known for his radio and tv fishing programs.

What is Bermuda's State?

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Bermuda is for all intents and purposes a British Colony. Capital city is Hamilton ( time honored, pun intended)

Is it illegal to fly or sail over the bremeauda triangle?

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There are all sorts of laws and traffic restrictions which apply to commercial and military air travel. Many are not known to the General public. For example there is what amounts to a 250 M.P.H. speed limit below l0,000 feet. Objects tracking this fast in civil airspace ( at this level altitude) are violating traffic rules and may be UFO"s

Is the Bermuda Triangle in the Indian Ocean?

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Yes, the Island of Bermuda is the northern point of the triangle.

Is Bermuda Triangle a superstition?

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it is a superstition coz if we luk from d point of view of SCIENCE dere are no monsters or any other supernatural forces in that sea. Studies have found that if you draw a triangle of similar area in any area of the ocean, there are, on average, the same number of wrecks and accidents.

How did the Bermuda triangle affect people?

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people don't travel across the Bermuda triangle. but i have a suspicion that may the Bermuda triangle has a connection with area 5.

Is Bermuda in North or South America?

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Bermuda is not in the Americas at all. Look at a topographical map of the ocean floor. The Americas and the Old World have been (and continue to be) driven apart by a line of volcanism stretching North to South on the floor of the Atlantic. This same process created the Atlantic Ocean, and continues to widen it. The volcanic material that wells up solidifies, creating an ever widening ocean floor...the materiel has welled up at varying rates. When it has welled up too quickly, it has not simply created a flat floor, but has built up mountains. The mid-Atlantic ridge is the sub-oceanic mountain ridge that currently stretches down the length of the fissure. The important detail is that all parts of the Oceanic plate under the Atlantic floor were formed at that fissure, and this includes the seamount that forms Bermuda....a very long time ago, when the Atlantic was far narrower, Bermuda was the mid-Atlantic ridge. There are a number of other oceanic islands in the Atlantic formed by the same process, and these are the only other landmasses that Bermuda can truthfully be described as composing a common geographical unit with.

Cartographers, civil servants and the generally ignorant, however, find it easier to group by proximity, or by the imagined cultural or racial commonality of separate populations.

Consequently, Bermuda, settled politically as an extension of Virginia, and nearest to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, is typically described as being part of North America.

At other times it is described as being part of the Caribbean or the West Indies. The latter term covers a larger area than the Caribbean, allowing the inclusion of the Gulf of Mexico and islands like the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos. Bermuda, a thousand miles from the Caribbean, and nearer to Halifax, Nova Scotia than to Miami, Florida, is obviously not part of either geographic area. As it is an island with a Spanish name, in the vague area of the New World, and is often presumed by non-Bermudians to have an overwhelmingly African racial makeup and culture (as is also assumed for the West Indies), and to have identical climate, society, and culture to the West Indies (none of which is true), it is often erroneously grouped with the West Indies. As some organisations prefer to group the West Indies with Central America, Bermuda can be found listed as part of Central America.

The islands stretching down the East side of the Caribbean were once hilltops on an isthmus that joined North and South America, before vulcanism created the current isthmus of Central America. For a geological time period, the two continents were isolated, with no land bridge. The shallow sea between, the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the near shore Atlantic, are all over the continental shelf. That is to say that the islands of the Caribbean/West Indies, unlike Bermuda, are part of the same continental landmass as the Americas, and are not oceanic islands formed by the same processes as Bermuda.

How is maths and Bermuda triangle related?

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The Bermuda triangle is imaginary lines drawn from Miami, to Puerto Rico, to Bermuda, and passes over part of the Bahamas. All of these inclusive countries teach math in their schools.

Why is the Bermuda triangle knows as the devils triangle?

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The first known use of the term "Bermuda Triangle" or "Devil's Triangle" was in a magazine article in a 1964 article that was published in 'Argosy' by Vincent Gaddis called 'The Deadly Bermuda Triangle'. Then in 1974, two books were published, 'The Bermuda Triangle' by Charles Berlits and 'The Devil's Triangle' by Richard Winer. These publications were based on speculation, not science.

Alcohol related crashes?

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Yes...

About 8% of all vehicle crashes.

About 40% of all fatal vehicle crashes.

(According to NHTSA)

Why can a ship pass Bermuda triangle?

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No, there is no point of sailing in that area because it makes the objects disappear.

Anyone who sails out of Miami, Bermuda, or Puerto Rico are sailing into the 'Bermuda triangle'. That includes the major cruise lines and airlines and hundreds of thousands of private boats and planes. The Bermuda triangle area is actually a leading vacation area.

Actually, many ships travel through the Bermuda Triangle. Many people believe that because it is so busy, that it is the reason for all the disappearances. For example, the more ships that travel there, there is a bigger probability for ships to disapear.

Does the Bermuda triangle really eat people up?

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The Bermuda Triangle is a lot of nonsense. Most of the disappearances can be explained with investigations. NOVA, the PBS science show, looked into the Bermuda Triangles and proved it was much ado about nothing. The main reason people talk about the Bermuda Triangle is make money from gullible individuals.

Can you fish in the Bermuda triangle?

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Many would say no, it is too dangerous. Others would say it is perfectly safe to do so.