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California, for a routine flight to Honolulu,* Clark wrote in Flying Saucer Review. "About three hours afterwards several urgent distress signals sounded from the plane and then silence. Later the craft came limping back to execute an emergency landing. When Air Station personnel entered the plane, they found every man of the crew, including the co-pilot who had lived long enough to pilot the craft back to its base, dead of unknown causes. Each of the bodies carried large, gaping wounds, and the outside of the ship was similarly marked. Air Station men who touched parts of the craft came down with a mysterious skin toe infection. One of the most puzzling aspects of the whole affair was that the .45 automatics carried by the pilot and copilot as service pieces had been emptied, and the shells lay on the floor. A smell of rotten eggs pervaded the atmosphere inkde the plane... Mysterious skin infections and rotten egg odors [hydrogen sulphide] are phenomena familial to all UFO researchers, It would seem intruder. Air Force records show that one of the first cases of an electromagnetic effect took place over Iwo Jima on August 28,1945, when a C-46's engines failed as three UFOs manoeuvred around it In those days military men called UFO's Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters baffled both Allied and Axis pilots over Germany and Japan in the final days of the war. Bomber crews were also reporting constant appearances of little green men who invaded their planes and caused all kinds of mischief. The press labelled them Gremlins and the popular conclusion was that the crews were merely hallucinating because of the high altitude and thin atmosphere. Since then there have been thousands of little green men reports from all over the world. They are now an integral com 1 People in Florida were also watching aircraft in the autumn of 1945, the common assumption being that the objects were some kind of new secret weapon. Then on December 5th, 1945, one of the most famous disappearances in aviation history occurred. Five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station on a routine ie training mission. Fourteen wee eee ee ed A ae a ee ee et de 2 ee tee ee tae men were aboard. Although the weather was perfect, the flight soon ran into some kind of trouble. Radio contact with the base ended abruptly. A Martin Mariner flying boat carrying a crew of thirteen was sent up to find the missing Blight 19. Twenty minutes after it took off radio communications with it also ended abruptly. Altogether, twenty-seven men and sis planes completely disappeared a few miles off the Florida coast that afternoon. An extensive search by land, sea, and air was conducted for weeks afterwards. It was one of the biggest searches in history, and it failed to turn up a single piece of debris. >. not even an oil slick. The disappearance of Flight 19 and the rescue plane marked the official beginning of the Bermuda Triangle mystery, In the twenty-five years since, a total of seventeen planes have vanished in the lozenge-shaped area southwest of Bermuda, carrying with them a total of 190 people. A number of ships, together with their entire crews, have also melted away there forever. that the transport was attacked - apparently without provocation - by some sort of strange aerial part of the flying saucer lore. |