On 5 December 1945, the Flight 19 incident (involving 5 Avenger torpedo bombers) occurred.
Related by some authors to UFOs and/or the Bermuda Triangle.
Claims to fame
This incident is Case 48 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 54 of the books covered by that article.
Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 5,460 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)
(1) “Impact” Rating of 13 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 95 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.
(2) “Credibility” Rating of 12 (out of a potential score of 14) because the relevant planes did not return. The debate has centered on what happened to the planes rather than the credibility of the basic story. However, some of the details appear to have been embellished in several accounts.
(3) “Expert” Rating of 7 (out of a potential score of 14). It is given this neutral rating because (at the time of writing) it has not been included in any of the short lists of the best cases produced by various UFO researchers that have been compiled by Isaac Koi (see the “Best UFO Cases" article at PART 3: Existing lists by various individuals), but also is not commonly given by UFO researchers as an example of an incident that can be explained by hoax, misperception or other mundane cause.
(4)“Strangeness” Rating of 5 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively low strangeness rating since there is reasonably compelling evidence (presented by, particularly, Lawrence David Kusche) that the planes may simply have encountered stormy weather.
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Wikipedia article at : Flight 19 incident (1945)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 160570.{text}
Book References
For discussion of Flight 19 see the following:
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Bender, Albert K in his “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, at page 8 of the Paperback Library paperback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2 (in Chapter 1), 12-21 (in Chapter 2) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “Without a Trace” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2, 9 (in Chapter 1), 19-20 (in Chapter 2), 70-71 (in Chapter 4), 136-137 (in Chapter 8) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 12, 21, 32-33, 89-91, 169-171 of the Granada paperback edition. |
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Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-143 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Introduction) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-42 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-154 (in Chapter 7) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 16) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 128 (in Chapter 10) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 8) of the Piccolo paperback edition. |
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Goldberg, Bruce in his “Time Travelers from our Future: An explanation of alien abduction” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 (in Chapter 7) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Gordon, Stuart in his “The Paranormal - An Illustrated Encyclopedia” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in the entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the Headline softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 203-204 (in Chapter 11) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hoggart, Simon & Hutchinson, Mike in their “Bizarre Beliefs” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45, 48-49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Bermuda Triangle”) of the Richard Cohen Books softcover edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Jeffrey, Adi-Kent Thomas in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1973) at pages 131-141 (in Chapter 7) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Jessup, Morris K in his “The Case for the UFO” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-164 (in Part 3, unnumbered chapter entitled “Disappearing Planes”) of the Arco hardback edition, at pages 116-117 of the pdf document containing the transcription by the “The Quantum Future Group” of the Gray Barker reproduction of the annotated Varo Edition available online at: www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Varo-Jessup.PdF |
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Jung, Carl in his “Flying Saucers” (1959) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the RKP softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the |
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Keel, John A in “The Fringes of Reason” (1989) (edited by Ted Schultz) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Great Phonograph in the Sky”) of the Harmony Books softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in Chapter 15) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-235 of the |
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Kole, Andre and Janssen, Al in their “From Illusion to Reality: A World Famous Illusionist Examines the Paranormal” (1980) at pages 77-78, 81 (in Chapter 7) of the Here’s Life Publishers softcover edition. |
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Kusche, Lawrence David in his “The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-20 (in Chapter 1), 98-119 (Chapter 22 generally) of the NEL paperback edition. |
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Landsburg, Alan and Landsburg, Sally in their “In Search of Ancient Mysteries” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-83 (in Chapter 8) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Little, Gregory in his “Grand Illusions” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the White Buffalo softcover edition. |
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Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-261 (in Chapter 15) of the |
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Magor, John in his “Our UFO Visitors” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 240 (in Chapter 12) of the Hancock House hardback edition. |
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Michell, John in his “The Flying Saucer Vision” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-115 (in Chapter 6) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 112 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at page 135 of the |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at page 113 of the manuscript, at page 128 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf |
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Randi, James in his “An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in the entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1940-1949”) of the Index hardback edition. |
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Robins, Joyce in her “The World’s Greatest Mysteries” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 54 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Human Mysteries”) of the Treasure Press hardback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-108 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Flight |
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Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 273 (in Appendix E) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Sanderson, Ivan T in his “Invisible Residents” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122, 127-129 (in Chapter 8) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 117-122 (in Appendix B) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle and UFOs”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 49-50 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John Wallace in his “Limbo of the Lost” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9, 10 (in Chapter 2) of the 1973 revised Bantam paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 173-174 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Bizarre Mystery of M K Jessup and the Allende Letters”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “New UFO Breakthrough” by Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour. |
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Stoneley, Jack and A T Lawton in their “CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 215-216 (in Chapter 27) of the Star Books paperback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 107 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle-UFO link”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 105-106 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121, 122 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle-UFO link”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “Mystic places: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) at pages 42-43 (in Chapter 1) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 11) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Umland, Eric and Umland, Craig in their “Mysteries of the Ancients” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 5) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel and Slade, Darren in their “Supernatural Spielberg” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25, 31-32 (in Chapter 3) of the Valis softcover edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 250 (in Chapter 11) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at page 243 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 5) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Winer, Richard in his “The Devil’s Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-24 (in Chapter 1 generally) of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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