The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17 , 1950 , article published in '' The Miami Herald '' ( Associated Press ) by Edward Van Winkle Jones . Two years later , '' Fate '' magazine published " Sea Mystery at Our Back Door " , a short article by George Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships , including the loss of Flight 19 , a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission . Sand 's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place . Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of '' American Legion '' magazine . In it , author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying , " We are entering white water , nothing seems right . We do n't know where we are , the water is green , no white . " He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes " flew off to Mars . " Sand 's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident . In the February 1964 issue of '' Argosy '' , Vincent Gaddis ' article " The Deadly Bermuda Triangle " argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region . The next year , Gaddis expanded this article into a book , '' Invisible Horizons ''
Flight 19
Flight 19
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