Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle Myth in Recent Scholarship

Record summary

Flight 19 was a 1945 disappearance of five U.S. Navy aircraft, followed by the loss of a rescue aircraft, and later became the signature narrative of Bermuda Triangle mythology. Since 2010, documentaries, skeptical investigations and esoteric publications have revisited the event through theories involving portals, magnetic anomalies, extraterrestrials and secret technologies. The historical episode is verifiable through Navy records and inquiry materials, while the paranormal interpretations are retrospective. It provides a strong comparison between archival maritime loss and occultized popular memory.