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...read with both pleasure and sadness the review of Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle [Jan. 6]. I read it with pleasure because it was cool, clear and well reasoned. I read it with sadness because it will only serve to stimulate sales of the book...
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...explain such strange happenings, Berlitz cites a number of imaginative possibilities: that missing craft may have been whisked off by flying saucers or sucked in by "magnetic vortices" that are linked with "a different point in time and space." He also suggests that passing planes and ships may trigger powerful energy sources produced long ago by an ancient civilization that sank to the bottom of the sea. (Berlitz has also written a book about Atlantis, the lost civilization.) These ancient machines then cause the destruction-Berlitz does not explain how-of the unwary craft. He also cites another theory...
...Coast Guard denies several of Berlitz's specific allegations, including the sudden disappearance of the Queen Elizabeth 2 from the radarscope of a Coast Guard vessel sailing near by in the triangle. There is no record of this event on any of its ships' logs, the Coast Guard says. But even if it were recorded, a spokesman points out, the momentary disappearance of a ship on a radar screen is a common occurrence, the result of rain clutter, sea "return" or other natural causes. Berlitz's claim that several planes have "mysteriously disintegrated over land within...
...triangle is no more prone to disappearances than other busy ocean regions. In fact, a Navy spokesman notes, "many, many more disappearances" have occurred over the years in the heavily traveled Sable triangle, bounded by Sable Island (off Nova Scotia), the Azores and Iceland. His challenge to Charles Berlitz: "Why not a book on the Sable triangle...