The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle had been told and retold in books magazine articles and on television and radio talk shows for several years when in 1972 Larry Kusche then a reference librarian decided to collect all the information he could find on each incident. He made contact with the Coast Guard the Air Force Lloyd's of London and many other agencies. He obtained microfilm copies of newspapers from cities where various incidents had been reported.This exhaustive research had an unexpect