Gaddis also added older mysteries, like the USS Cyclops and Carroll A. Gaddis is generally credited with coining the phrase "Bermuda Triangle," later expanding upon his arguments in the book Invisible Horizons. In 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote an article in Argosy which attached unspecified paranormal causes to the disappearances. Generally, these early accounts merely recount the disappearances without positing supernatural explanations. Eckert wrote an American Legion article in 1962 focusing on Flight 19. In 1952, George X Sands wrote an article in Fate magazine about the phenomenon. Far out.Īs early as 1950, people began to notice an unusually high frequency of tragedy in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. The Vile Vortices, according to Ivan Sanderson. The Navy originally reported that the squadron was lost due to pilot error, but following protests from the commander’s family, this was changed to “causes unknown.” The secondary tragedy of the search plane was reported as if “it too never returned,” creating a sense of profound mystery where there was none. In the following days, one of the search planes suffered a fatal fuel-tank explosion en route to the search area. The weather also turned bad, and darkness fell. As the planes continued to stray, radio contact was eventually lost, and the planes likely ran out of fuel. Compounding this error, he assumed that the aircraft instrumentation was faulty, and continued heading out to sea. It is believed that the commander of the flight misidentified a group of islands, causing him to erroneously believe that he was over the Florida Keys, rather than well out into the Atlantic Ocean. The planes and their 14 crewmen never returned, and no wreckage has ever been located. The most famous event associated with the Bermuda Triangle was the ill-fated “Flight 19,” a training mission of US Navy bombers on December 5, 1945. See the main article on this topic: Flight 19 This is despite the fact that these events happened on the other side of the ocean. Sometimes the area covered by the Bermuda Triangle is expanded to include other mysteries, such as the "ghost ship" Mary Celeste and the disappearance of the submarine USS Scorpion.