Perhaps the most famous or infamous of all the world's

mysterious places is the Bermuda Triangle.

For decades, this stretch of ocean, covering over 500,000

square miles, located between Miami, Puerto Rico,

and Bermuda, has baffled scientists,

experienced sailors, and even military investigators.

Planes disappearing, various kinds of strange lights

being seen, a whole bunch of weirdness, all conglomerating

into this very tight corner of the Atlantic.

Ships that have shown up absolutely empty.

No sign of any struggle, yet the crew has just vanished.

GIAN QUASAR: This is something that's very real.

They exist in records.

And now that they're all gone, in fair weather,

that is not supernatural phenomenon to me.

That is something unexplained.

NARRATOR: What caused ships and planes

to disappear without a trace?

Why has aeronautical and navigational equipment

stopped working or changed course by itself?

Historical shipping records show that the mysteries

of the Bermuda Triangle are much older than many people realize.

Ever since the earliest days of oceanic exploration,

sailors have witnessed strange sights.

JASON MARTELL: Really, the awareness

of the Bermuda Triangle started with Christopher Columbus being

such an esoteric navigator and a well-respected sailor.

His log traversing to the New World is very accurate.

And it turns out, just as Columbus

got into the area known as the Bermuda Triangle,

he recorded having compass malfunctions.

The following night, he saw a large fireball hit the ocean.

He saw strange lights.

He saw strange wet phenomena happening there.

So it's definitely a case that the story of the Bermuda

Triangle is not just some modern awesome urban myth

at the threshold of the 21st century.

It is as old as there are accounts

of people going into that area.

NARRATOR: About 450 years after Columbus, on December 5, 1945,

the US military experienced the Bermuda Triangle's

most perplexing mystery.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, five US Navy torpedo bombers

flew from a Naval base in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

on a routine training exercise.

But not long into the two-hour mission,

all five planes were suddenly gone.

The mystery was compounded when the navy sent out a rescue

plane, and it too disappeared.

Six planes, all flown by skilled pilots,

had vanished into oblivion.

That struck everybody as very odd.

This was now the modern era.

We have radar.

We have radio.

Still, five aircraft vanished.

Now, the question is where have all of them gone.

It really is as if they have been snapped out of our reality

into something else.

And of course what that something else is,

that's the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

NARRATOR: Over the years, few have

lived to tell of any strange anomalies that have occurred

to them in the Bermuda Triangle.

But American pilot Bruce Gernon is an exception.

In 1970, Gernon, his father, and a business associate

were flying from the Bahamas to Florida when Gernon reported

seeing a strange cloud directly out in front of their plane.

Then, as he approached, Gernon claims the cloud formed

a donut-shaped hole or vortex.

BRUCE GERNON: That tunnel was huge at first,

but then it started getting smaller, rapidly.

But when I penetrated into the tunnel,

an incredible thing happened.

These lines instantly formed.

It was like looking down a rifle barrel,

because the lines were swirling, slowly, counterclockwise.

I had encountered some intense electricity.

There were, like, flashes going on and off.

And all I could see was this strange, grayish-yellowish fog.

I call it electronic fog.

I noticed that my instruments were malfunctioning.

And at the same time, I'm feeling

this unbelievable sensation.

NARRATOR: Gernon says when he finally exited the tunnel,

he radioed Miami Air traffic control,

but they couldn't find his plane on their radar screen.

BRUCE GERNON: And then about three minutes later,

the radar controller came back on the radio.

And he's all excited.

He had identified me over Miami.

And I couldn't believe it, because I had only

been flying for 33 minutes.

It should have been more like an hour and three minutes.

NARRATOR: Could such a discrepancy in

time and location really happen?

And could extraterrestrials be using this kind of gateway

to travel to Earth?

According to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity,

it is possible.

JASON MARTELL: Through Einstein's principles

of being able to bend space using a gravitational pull,

it's very possible that extraterrestrial craft could

somehow get a higher charge of energy

from these locations like the Bermuda Triangle, which allow

them to do a burst of energy, if you will, a warp speed,

and harness some type of extra particles or energies

from these locations to get them where they're trying to go.

NARRATOR: At the North Palm Beach County Airport,

located 20 miles outside of West Palm Beach, Florida,

author and researcher David Childress

and professional pilot Bruce Gernon are about

to retrace the exact path of a mysterious flight

that Gernon made nearly five decades ago.

It was a flight over the region

of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Bermuda Triangle,

during which Gernon claims

to have experienced an inexplicable shift in time.

CHILDRESS (over radio): So, Bruce, uh, it was,

it was 1970, and you were flying out of Andros.

Who-Who was with you on this flight?

Uh, my dad and our business partner was with us,

and it was a routine flight, but, uh, this is the area

where I, uh, took off and started my ascent.

I was at a thousand feet just like we are right now.

And I started climbing

straight out over that bank right there.

-There it is. -CHILDRESS: Is that it? Okay.

I don't know, it looks kinda eerie here.

There's nothing much around, is there?

Very remote area of the Bahama bank.

Wow, what was that?

Did you feel that?

-Uh... -GERNON: There it is.

Ah, that was the weirdest...

Can you catch that?

CHILDRESS: Something we should maybe--

Okay. It's out of control?

NORWITCH: It's okay, guys, we just hit a rough spot.

-We've just got a little turbulence here. -(laughs)

It's turbulence.

CHILDRESS: How about that? Yeah. Wow.

I have to admit, I'm actually glad

that-that we didn't vanish.

It's right in this exact area here...

where it did that.

-Wow. Uh, a premonition, maybe. -Kind of, yeah.

All right, so you-- did you think that anything strange

-was gonna happen to you that day? -No, no.

I had no premonitions, but this strange cloud

formed right in front of us,

and it was like a lenticular-shaped cloud.

But it was just sort of hovering there.

And it did look a little strange.

As soon as I got over it, it started expanding.

And then before you know it, I-I'm inside the cloud.

And so now I can't see anything.

Visibility was near zero.

There was lightning in there.

It was flashes of lightning.

These flashes got more and more intense

the deeper we went in it.

It got darker, too.

It was almost like night and day.

My co-pilot, my dad, he said,

uh, maybe we ought to turn around and go back to Andros.

I didn't want to turn around

and go back through this cloud

that was freaking me out, you know?

It would've been worse.

There was no turning back, you felt.

I said to my dad, "well, hold on, not yet."

NARRATOR: Rather than turning back for land,

Bruce decided to pull out of the cloud

that the plane had become immersed in,

and continued on his flight path.

But when he came out of the cloud, he realized

that the situation was even more incredible

than he first thought.

His plane was surrounded on all sides

by a giant storm.

And there appeared to be no way out.

I felt like we were trapped inside this strange storm.

And then I noticed a big tunnel

about a mile wide and ten miles long.

So I said, "oh, well, we'll go through that."

My dad agreed.

When we entered the tunnel,

an incredible thing happened.

A series of clouds

formed a swirling line

that was slowly rotating counterclockwise.

It felt like we were hydroplaning.

Somehow we were at zero gravity.

We were floating and going forward somehow.

And I came out of the tunnel,

I looked back behind

and I watched the tunnel collapse.

The radar controller comes back on the microphone,

and he's-he's yelling really loud.

He's all excited. He says,

"I got an airplane directly over Miami Beach."

So I look at my watch.

"No, I got another 30 minutes to go here.

"Uh, I'm, uh,

at least 80 miles east of you guys," I tell him.

But then I look down,

and there's Miami Beach right below me.

I traveled

100 miles in only three minutes.

NARRATOR: 100 miles?

In three minutes?

Bruce's plane would have to have been traveling

2,000 miles per hour

to cross that distance in such a short amount of time,

a speed that his small plane

was not even remotely capable of.

But the people on the plane, they're...

except for a little bit of mist and fog around them, they're...

they don't really notice anything strange is happening.

No, they didn't notice anything strange.

But, uh, all their watches were set back 20 minutes.

I believe now that what was happening

was I-I was seeing the fabric of time.

And I believe that is what

creates the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 5, 1945--

five Navy Avenger bombers flying due East on a routine training

mission encounter something strange

over the Bermuda islands.

About an hour and a half into the flight,

squadron leader Lieutenant Charles Taylor

sends a radio transmission that his two onboard campuses

have become inoperable.

Everybody got totally confused as to where they were.

They Were.

Totally lost in an area where they should not have been lost.

The whole squadron of US Navy aircraft just vanished.

The fact, it was in this particular area obviously

has given rise to the theory, could they have been abducted?

Three hours later, a rescue aircraft,

a TBY Mariner with a crew of 11 aboard

disappeared with no trace.

And what that caused is one of the most extensive search

and rescue operations in the annals of the United States

Navy.

And they never found a life preserver, a piece of a wing,

or anything from those aircraft-- nothing.

And to this day, we have no clue as to what happened.

NARRATOR: But Flight 19 is only one incident in allegedly

hundreds that have claimed victims in what is commonly

referred to as the Bermuda Triangle.

And according to ancient astronaut theorists,

this site, which spans a 500,000 square mile

area between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico,

plays host to numerous unexplained physical and

metaphysical phenomena, strange energies

that may help to explain why pilots, sailors, and ship

captains enter the area and are never seen or heard from again.

So you have to wonder what's happening to these people?

Is there something about the Bermuda Triangle?

It's some kind of portal that aliens are using to come and go

through hyperspace, and suddenly you and your yacht,

or you and your plane are sucked into some other dimension?

And you're not coming back.

The Bermuda Triangle is interesting for a number

of reasons.

First of all, it's not just one plane

which goes missing somewhere.

This is several planes, which all disappear.

And the question is, where have all of them gone?

It's not just a case that on occasion one of them is found.

Really an awful lot of what has gone missing in the Bermuda

Triangle has never been seen, has never been heard of.

If an aircraft is flying over or ships sailing the ocean

at the wrong time, could it pull them down underneath the water?

So you know, we're looking at possibly not abductions

into the sky, but actually below the ocean.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

say the legend of the lost city of Atlantis

may be connected to the possible abductions in the Bermuda

Triangle.

According to legends, the island of Atlantis

was an enormous ancient power that thrived as far back

as 9,600 BC.

The story of Atlantis, which is one of the most famous

mysteries from antiquity, the earliest sources we have on it

is Plato.

And the city was known for being a sort

of a technological marvel in its own right.

And at some point, for reasons that are not entirely clear,

there was an eruption of some sort, and the city disappeared.

We have no archaeological artifacts from Atlantis,

and we don't know if it's just mythology.

So is it possible, either through evil intentions

or by accident, they sunk to the bottom of the ocean

in the Bermuda area, and that's why we're experiencing,

or pilots experience all kinds of electrical interference

when they fly over the Bermuda Triangle?

NARRATOR: Might the ruins of Atlantis

lie below the waters of the Bermuda and Bimini islands?

And could this help explain the disappearances and possible

abductions associated with the Bermuda Triangle?

Atlantis was destroyed in a day and a night.

Just completely vanished.

Is it possible that they were all mass abducted and left

the planet?

NARRATOR: Could it be possible that the Earth

has hidden vortexes that are causing

unexplained disappearances and may have even swallowed up

the lost continent of Atlantis?

And if so, might this help explain the fate

of other so-called lost civilizations, empires whose

populations and technologies have also mysteriously

disappeared?

At 3:00 in the afternoon,

pilot Bruce Gernon departs from Andros Island

bound for Palm Beach, Florida, just north of Miami.

It's a route that he's flown

many times before without incident,

but this flight will be unlike any other.

Since I've been flying for 47 years now, uh...

I've had a lot of flights in that area.

But this experience I'll never forget.

It all started a hundred miles east of Miami

when I found myself surrounded by this strange storm.

Time started changing instantly.

And I believe I actually got to see the fabric of time itself

as I watched the tunnel rotate.

When I reached the other end, the tunnel collapsed.

And I reached the shoreline of Miami Beach.

It only took three minutes and 20 seconds

to fly a hundred miles.

I should have been able to fly only ten miles, approximately.

Not 100 miles.

HENRY: I think that what he must have experienced

is perhaps some kind of a time shift,

or he entered into an anomalous vortex

that perhaps was some kind of a time portal.

We don't know, but it's a very curious example of time travel.

NARRATOR: Could it be

that the route Bruce Gernon traveled

led him into a portal through time?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

this incredible possibility is even more intriguing

because of the area where it happened, the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle is really located off of, uh, Florida.

The northern point of it is the island of Bermuda.

It then goes down to, essentially, southern Florida,

and then out into The Bahamas.

And this is an area that has historically

had strange phenomenon.

NARRATOR: While Gernon was fortunate enough

to have survived his harrowing experience,

many ships and aircraft traveling through this region

have disappeared without a trace.

In one extraordinary case

that occurred on December 5, 1945,

five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers,

known as Flight 19, all went missing at the same time.

All five of their compasses were not working correctly,

and they had two navigational instruments

that they could use, and they were not

-working properly, either. -(alarm buzzing)

NARRATOR: The planes disappeared from radar,

and their last communication

consisted of nothing but eerie static.

(radio static)

The Navy immediately sent a team to search

for the missing bombers, but they never recovered any debris.

Is it possible that the Bermuda Triangle

is subject to portals or vortexes

that create these mysteries?

What we do know is that it is a place

of intensive electromagnetic activity,

and this is something that we can tell

from the fact that so many aircraft and ships

experience problems with their instrumentation.

NARRATOR: Might the Bermuda Triangle be an electromagnetic hot spot

where portals capable of manipulating time

open and close?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they believe that these portals may help explain

some of the strange, otherworldly activity

reported in the area.

Many UFO sightings

and m-more modern UAP, uh, videos

have been released show unusual flight dynamics and capabilities

of these... whatever they are.

Well, it may be they're creating portals,

in our universe and in our time and our space,

that they can move in and out of, uh, at will.

There's no reason to, uh, say they can't

until we know what they are.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that visitors

from other worlds are utilizing portals

in the Bermuda Triangle

to travel through time and space?

And if so, do such portals already exist naturally,

or are they being created

with some type of extraterrestrial technology?