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NARRATOR: Alaska --

a vast, remote wilderness twice the size of Texas.

ENOCH: There are dangerous, unpredictable

forces at work here.

NARRATOR: In one of the most mysterious

corners of the globe...

A lot of things can kill you out here without even trying.

NARRATOR: ...this is a place hundreds of times more deadly

than the Bermuda Triangle.

MAN: Oh, my God.

NARRATOR: Stories of alien abductions...

I believe it was a UFO.

NARRATOR: ...the paranormal, vanishing airplanes,

and strange beasts...

The Alaskan Bigfoot -- he can rip you in half.

These accounts are really widespread.

[Bleep] it peaked out of the tree right there.

NARRATOR: ...have haunted those who dare set foot here.

In the last 30 years,

16,000 people have disappeared without a trace.

More people have disappeared than the Bermuda Triangle --

two to three times the amount.

NARRATOR: Witnesses tell us their shocking stories...

[ Growling ]I was petrified.

NARRATOR: ...and we've gathered some of the world's

leading experts in their field...

I'm always after scientific evidence

that can be independently corroborated.

NARRATOR: ...to try and unlock the mystery

of the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

The Alaska Triangle is one of the most mysterious

and dangerous places on Earth.

So few people live here, yet so many disappear.

♪♪

ENOCH: When we look at the Alaska Triangle,

it's absolutely frightening.

Ships have gone missing. Planes have been downed.

People have disappeared and vanished

off the face of the Earth.

DESMOND: They're there one second,

and then they're just gone.

And they don't find remains.

They don't find any good reason for them to disappear.

NARRATOR: But in the Alaska Triangle,

the greatest risk is taking to the air.

More than 2,000 planes have crashed or vanished here

in the last 20 years.

And the disappearance of one plane, a Douglas C-54,

has troubled investigators more than any other.

Could the Douglas craft have flown into a portal,

and is a portal part of the inherent mystery

in the Alaska Triangle?

ENOCH: I think what could have happened to the missing Douglas

is probably one of the most important mysteries

on the planet.

NARRATOR: What did happen to the missing Douglas?

♪♪

It's 1950, the year after NATO was formed,

the start of the Cold War,

and on January 26th,

a Douglas C-54 military transport plane

with 44 people on board

took off from Alaska's Elmendorf Air Base,

in the middle of the Alaska Triangle.

[ Radio chatter ]

Two hours into the flight, it disappeared.

♪♪

How, in 1950, could a plane this size,

with 44 people onboard, vanish in the Alaska Triangle?

It remains a mystery to this day.

NARRATOR: One man is on a quest to find out

what happened to the Douglas.

♪♪

Veteran U.S. Air Force pilot Dan Hampton

has flown over 150 combat missions,

including in Iraq in the Gulf War,

and is a veteran of numerous search-and-rescue missions.

The idea that a plane could go missing

and never be found

goes against all his training and experience.

He's now determined to find answers

to the airplane's disappearance.

This was a C-54 standard military transport,

carried people, cargo, equipment, things like that.

NARRATOR: With a wingspan of over 100 feet,

the Douglas C-54 was one of the most important planes

in the U.S. Air Force.

HAMPTON: This particular C-54 was carrying 36 passengers,

some military, some military dependents,

and 8 crew members.

The plane took off from Elmendorf Air Force Base,

headed East 240 miles to its first mandatory reporting point

right on the border of the Yukon Territory and Alaska,

a little town called Snag...

♪♪

...made its radio call over Snag on time using a VHF radio,

and then it vanished without a trace.

♪♪

This happened on the fringe

of what's become known as the Alaska Triangle.

That's where this airplane was when it vanished.

♪♪

NARRATOR: The Douglas was on a well-worn flight path,

but these were volatile times.

The two great superpowers, the U.S. and Russia,

then the Soviet Union, were in a nuclear arms race,

and each would do anything to get the upper hand.

HAMPTON: Remember, this is 1950.

The Cold War has begun in earnest.

Russia is in this mad scramble

to face off against us ideologically

all over the world.

NARRATOR: Alaska is only 56 miles

from the Soviet Union...

...and the Soviets knew that U.S. nuclear bombers

could be over their territory within minutes.

The world was on the brink, and all eyes were on Alaska.

♪♪

Historian Sascha Auerbach has been looking into

recently released government files from the Cold War.

♪♪

Nuclear weapons were the most powerful thing

that the U.S. had.

They always had more of them than Russia did,

and they wanted them within reach of the Soviet Union,

so Alaska was the natural launching point for the bombers.

They want every strategic advantage,

and Alaska is absolutely the key to that.

HAMPTON: Elmendorf was built in Anchorage

to protect the northern edge of the United States.

It's equipped with all the latest technology,

radar, strategic bombers, and fighters,

specifically to combat the threat from the Soviet Union.

AUERBACH: We're talking about

one of the most-surveilled air spaces

in the world at the time.

This was supposed to be where America was most prepared

for an invasion, where it was most concerned

about Russian planes coming over.

So the fact that they lost a plane

with all these radio assets, watching this whole area,

must have been really galling.

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What is also interesting is that this happened the same year

that the U.S. was about

to have its first operational hydrogen bomb,

so I'm sure the tension was super high.

NARRATOR: The U.S. military were immediately concerned

that the Soviets might have downed the Douglas.

♪♪

But when it disappeared,

the Douglas was flying directly away from the Soviet Union.

It would have been impossible for any Soviet fighter planes

to get this far east without being spotted.

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The Alaskan airspace is not an ordinary airspace.

It is monitored very closely, very carefully, all the time.

Why?

Because it's sitting right next to the adversary

of the United States -- Russia.

So every motion, every object that's moving in

and out of that area is being tracked.

[ Radio chatter ]

HAMPTON: After Snag,

there was no further contact with the C-54.

Nobody thought anything of it.

But about an hour after it was supposed to land

in Great Falls, Montana, way down in the south,

didn't show up, it was declared missing.

And an enormous search effort sprang into action.

♪♪

NARRATOR: At the time of the disappearance,

the U.S. and Canadian armed forces

were about to start a big war-games operation.

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But now the missing plane took top priority.

HAMPTON: They canceled the war games

and put all those resources and people

into the search effort.

NARRATOR: Confidence was high.

The U.S. military in Alaska were experts in search and rescue.

MAN: The rescue coordination center at Elmendorf

keeps busy the year 'round,

including Air Force and Army search-and-rescue efforts

in Alaska's vast inland region.

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NARRATOR: 7,000 ground troops and 85 aircraft

were deployed to help in the search.

What this is comes out of the original

Air Force accident reports.

This shows the extensive, enormous search area

that these 85 planes undertook to try to find this C-54.

AUERBACH: They end up searching about 300,000 square miles

of territory, which is massive.

It's a space the size of Venezuela.

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HAMPTON: The scale of this is unprecedented,

so it makes you wonder,

was there really something special or unique

about this flight, that it hadto be found?

Was it because there's somebody onboard

that made it necessary to find it?

♪♪

NARRATOR: A list of the passengers and crew reveals

no one out of the ordinary.

It was a routine flight.

♪♪

Perhaps there was something onboard --

a secret piece of tech, top-secret information,

evidence of some kind that the authorities

wanted to remain hidden.

Or was it necessary to find it because of where it went down?

NARRATOR: Disappearing right on the edge of the triangle --

was it a sign of some unknown force at work,

something more dangerous perhaps than any human adversary?

♪♪

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NARRATOR: Veteran pilot Dan Hampton is investigating

the case of the Douglas C-54 that went missing

in the Alaska Triangle in 1950.

HAMPTON: This was called a Form 14,

and it's the report of the aircraft incidents.

So what this indicates is,

they did not know the cause of the accident.

They're very plain about that.

They can't find the crash site.

The weather was not a factor,

and the last reporting position was over Snag.

♪♪

GOUGH: The Douglas just goes missing.

There's no distress calls whatsoever.

It has just disappeared from the face of the Earth.

NARRATOR: But the missing Douglas wasn't the Triangle's first,

or last, renowned aviation tragedy.

♪♪

In October 1972, a plane carrying the leader

of the House of Representatives, Hale Boggs,

mysteriously disappeared along the southern edge

of the Alaska Triangle.

People looked for weeks for any sign of the plane,

never found any evidence of what happened to it.

Now, keep in mind that 200 planes crash

every year in Alaska.

You have to ask the question,

"How can that be? What is causing this?"

NARRATOR: But the biggest aviation mystery of the Triangle

has to be the missing Douglas.

♪♪

1,000 miles down the coast from Elmendorf,

in Vancouver, Canada,

journalist Jonny Enoch has uncovered

an unlikely series of events.

ENOCH: During the search-and-rescue effort,

there were over 85 planes looking for the C-54.

That's when strange and unexplained things

started to happen,

leading investigators to believe that something wasn't right.

There was something mysterious and bizarre going on.

HAMPTON: An airplane was participating

in the search-and-rescue,

crashed down here near the southern end of the triangle.

In this particular case, they stalled.

They crashed.

Nobody died, and the pilot walked about 13 miles

to the Alaska Highway, and everybody got rescued.

On the 7th of February, another aircraft goes down.

This time it's a C-47 in the southern part

of the search grid.

No fatalities, but again, what caused it to go down?

There's always an investigation when a military aircraft

has an accident, especially a crash,

and in this case, they never disclosed what exactly happened.

But the fact the military never said anything about it

is suspicious.

NARRATOR: Just over a week later,

a third search plane went down...

[ Radio chatter ]

...very near to the last recorded position

of the missing Douglas.

But the fourth plane to crash was the most significant,

and this wasn't one of the search planes.

It was twice as big as a Douglas

with a cost of over $4 million.

That's over $40 million in today's money.

HAMPTON: On February 14th, the last in this bizarre

string of occurrences happens.

A B-36, which is a nuclear bomber,

takes off from Eielson Air Force Base,

north of Elmendorf,

and it's heading for Fort Worth, Texas, nonstop.

NARRATOR: The nuclear bomber was on an exercise,

simulating a strike against the Soviets.

AUERBACH: Keep in mind that we're talking about a period

before the invention

of the intercontinental ballistic missile.

If you're going to deliver nuclear weapons on target,

the only way to do it is via long-range bomber.

And most of the Soviet Union and the targets

they want to reach are quite far away,

so they have to test these things.

NARRATOR: The B-36 flew out west over the Pacific

before turning back into the triangle.

With the coast in sight, as it was returning towards Juneau...

[ Beeping ]

...the plane lost all power.

The Mark 4 atomic bomb was jettisoned into the ocean.

The airplane then crashed into Mount Kologet

in British Columbia.

The plane goes down and is lost, along with the nuclear weapon

and several thousand pounds of conventional explosives as well.

NARRATOR: The bomb was never found.

It was the first loss of a nuclear bomb in history.

AUERBACH: The American military planners,

of course, worried about the loss of such aircraft.

I mean, these are very, very valuable assets.

There's always the fear that anything lost

is something that the Soviets are going to recover,

and they're gonna make every effort to keep it

out of the public news.

A lot of the information we have about these disasters

really only became available

when the records were declassified,

so it remained a mystery for quite some time.

Four airplanes lost within a 30-day period,

including a frontline nuclear bomber --

what is going on inside the Alaska Triangle?

♪♪

NARRATOR: Hostile Soviet activity is ruled out.

The military had to start considering other possibilities.

The first thing that leaps to mind

is some sort of electromagnetic interference

with the magnetic navigation instruments on board.

That's all they had.

GOUGH: Alaska is not just remote.

It's northernly.

That part of the world,

there's all kinds of strange magnetic forces at play

that you don't see anywhere else.

ENOCH: I think the presence of strange electromagnetic

and gravitational anomalies

could be the reason for many of the instrument failures

and plane crashes plaguing the Alaska skies.

HAMPTON: This is up near the pole.

I've flown up there.

I've had my magnetic-based backup instruments go crazy.

Thank goodness I didn't have to rely on them

like these guys did.

That's all they had.

And if you encounter a variation in the electromagnetic field,

it's gonna cause your compass to do this,

and if you're trying to navigate and steer from it,

you can see the problem.

You don't really know where you're going.

NARRATOR: So the long history of air crashes

in the Alaska Triangle

could be down to unusual and extreme electromagnetic forces.

The Douglas could have got lost, run out of fuel, and crashed.

But if this happened,

then surely the plane would have been found.

So the fundamental question remains,

"Where is the Douglas?"

Could there be a more sinister explanation

for its disappearance?

♪♪

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NARRATOR: Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle

are frighteningly commonplace.

♪♪

But there's one incident that haunted the U.S. military

for more than 70 years --

44 military personnel gone without a trace.

In one of the big mystery disasters of the U.S. Air Force,

the plane vanished.

NARRATOR: Why has the Douglas never been found?

♪♪

Some who have been researching the case

have come up with a disturbing theory.

DESMOND: I do think the Douglas incident

could have been intervention by a UFO.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Jessie Desmond is the Alaskan State Director

for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.

DESMOND: Alaska is a great place for UFOs

because we have this vast amount of space and very few people,

which means that they can do stuff

without a whole lot of onlookers.

NARRATOR: In 2003, there was a reported sighting

of a whole mass of UFOs in a deserted area

just 200 miles south of Fairbanks.

♪♪

Now Jessie has found a close link between UFOs

and the military.

Alaska UFOs really kind of started with World War II

because we had a couple of sightings over the Bering Sea.

These were recorded by crewmen on military boats.

We had all these radar sites, and the military used those

to detect UFOs over Alaska airspace.

And then we had waves of UFO sightings all over the state.

NARRATOR: One of the most famous was in 1986

when the crew of a Japanese airline flight

witnessed two UFOs trail their plane

right in the middle of the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

Is there a link with the missing Douglas?

♪♪

A top-secret intelligence report from February 10th, 1950,

reveals that UFOs were stalking U.S. naval planes

just days before the Douglas vanished.

The first of these encounters

was above the naval air station of Kodiak...

...only 250 miles southwest of the Douglas' departure point

in Anchorage.

MUFON investigator Jeremy Ray has been analyzing the reports.

Shortly before the disappearance of the Douglas aircraft,

there was a Navy pilot that witnessed a UFO.

This UFO was clocked on radar going 1,800 miles per hour,

and during that time, we didn't have anything

that could go that fast, so I find it very interesting.

NARRATOR: The plane's radar operator

reported the strangest interference he had ever seen.

The control tower was in a state of panic.

There should have been no other aircraft in the area.

[ Radio chatter ]

Suddenly the UFO vanished,

only to reappear two hours later trailing the Navy plane.

It followed the aircraft for some minutes

before vanishing once more.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

The Navy chiefs issued a top-secret report

to the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Journalist and researcher Andrew Gough

has been on the trail of this report.

The 1950s report was so important

that 36 copies of the Navy's detailed analysis

were sent to various security agencies,

such as the FBI, the CIA, the Air Force intelligence,

and even the Department of State.

NARRATOR: This document about the Kodiak UFO encounter

never saw the light of day until the 1970s

when a Freedom of Information request

forced the U.S. authorities to release a redacted version.

This strikes me as yet another government cover-up.

They know what's going on,

and they are not gonna let the public know

'cause they are afraid that they won't be able to handle it.

NARRATOR: The Kodiak encounter happened just four days

before the Douglas disappeared.

Two days after the disappearance came another sighting,

and this one takes us right back to Elmendorf.

RAY: There was a report of a UFO above Elmendorf Air Force Base,

and what's really interesting about this

is that that's the same Air Force base

that the Douglas aircraft flew out of.

♪♪

NARRATOR: An Elmendorf commander spotted three orange objects

above the air base.

♪♪

They hovered at around 25,000 feet.

Then they mysteriously vanished.

♪♪

GOUGH: Now a lieutenant colonel, of all people,

sees something so bizarre, so unusual, that he has to file

an unidentified-flying-object report.

That must have been something really weird.

♪♪

NARRATOR: There are some who do now believe

that the Douglas could have been taken by a UFO.

Jeremy Ray thinks the answer could lie

in the use of a tractor beam --

a super-strong energy beam

which can pull anything else towards it.

RAY: It is possible that the Douglas

could have been controlled by a UFO,

maybe pulled in by a tractor beam.

That is kind of possible due to all the reports

that we've heard about of pilots reporting

UFOs taking control of the aircrafts.

NARRATOR: In 1948 in Kentucky,

in what is known as the Mantell Incident,

a young pilot was killed after losing control of his aircraft

while pursuing a UFO.

In 1958 in Snag,

the very area where the Douglas was last recorded,

two men out on a moose hunt reported a metallic, oval UFO

hovering above a marsh.

♪♪

The theory goes that the C-54 was overpowered

by superior technology,

and that's why the plane's never been found.

Or it could be something else.

♪♪

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NARRATOR: Over the years, there have been all kinds of unusual happenings

in the Alaska Triangle, from bizarre paranormal activity

to sightings of monstrous beasts in the lakes and forests.

But the disappearance of one aircraft

in the skies of the triangle

could be the strangest of them all.

♪♪

Could an airplane really be taken by a UFO?

♪♪

There's one famous case from Australia

where this has been suggested as a genuine possibility.

♪♪

What I have here is the transcript

in one of the world's most famous UFO cases --

Frederick Valentich, October 1978, Australia.

The pilot has taken off at 0900 and 6 minutes,

and all of a sudden things go a little strange.

He describes that there's something

about 1,000 feet above him, and he can't identify it.

It's moving really quickly.

It's got a green light and sort of metallic.

It's all shiny on the outside.

You know, the air-traffic controllers

have no response for that.

They have no idea what that could be.

This goes on for about six minutes,

and, finally, the last thing he says at 0911 --

"That strange craft is hovering on top of me again.

It's hovering, and it's not an aircraft."

In the transmission, the last thing that's heard

is the sound of clashing metal.

Was this the sound of that unidentified flying object

attaching itself to Frederick's plane?

Is that why it disappeared?

Is this why the Douglas aircraft also disappeared?

♪♪

NARRATOR: But a few weeks after

the Douglas disappeared in Alaska,

there were strange signs

that the plane might still be out there.

On the 2nd of February, faint radio signals were heard.

[ Radio static ]

♪♪

AUERBACH: This is what had the search teams

continuing to hold out hope

that they were gonna find the C-54.

So, for example, here's a story from February 1st

out of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory,

which is right around the first of the main search areas,

that you had faint radio signals on the distress band

which raised hopes that this C-54 was going to turn up,

and there were 44 people on board,

so they really wanted to find this plane.

[ Radio chatter ]

RAY: People could hear chatter and people talking

but not able to make out what they were saying.

And it wasn't just in one location.

It was scattered around the area.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

GOUGH: You can't pinpoint where they're coming from.

Can you imagine hearing these voices?

You're struggling to make out what they're saying,

but it's too distorted.

It's too distant.

It's kind of human-sounding. You recognize that.

But there's something just wrong about it.

Imagine how eerie that must have been for the people

who were picking this up.

♪♪

NARRATOR: The radio messages continued to taunt the search teams

for days after the Douglas' disappearance,

but gradually they became more distant.

♪♪

Far-away voices, magnetic anomalies --

this evidence has led some experts

to come up with a startling idea.

One of the theories about what happened to the Douglas

is that it flew into a portal,

which is a gateway to another dimension

where time and space are different from ours.

If you think for a moment that this plane could have flown

into a vortex, into a portal, then what you're faced with

is the possibility that you're hearing sounds

coming back from another dimension.

♪♪

ENOCH: Vortices are created by powerful

planetary electromagnetic forces.

My theory about what could have happened to the missing Douglas

is that a portal could have opened up

that was powered by the Alaska Triangle,

causing it to travel into another dimension,

or another universe

somewhere out there in the multiverse,

causing it to disappear altogether,

and I don't think it will ever be found.

NARRATOR: Could those distant garbled voices really have been

mayday calls from the crew of the Douglas

trapped in another dimension?

♪♪

The theory goes back to the huge amount

of electromagnetism in the air.

♪♪

Mike Ricksecker is a paranormal investigator

who's been studying the effects of electromagnetism

for many years.

I'm really fascinated about how the energy

is connected around the globe

because I believe that we all as people are interconnected,

and we are connected with the universe.

NARRATOR: For Mike, vortices are a part

of this interconnection.

RICKSECKER: A vortex is energy from the Earth's core

that has risen to the surface,

and it can affect electronic equipment,

which, if it swells up into the air,

it can affect an airplane --

throw it off course, cause it to crash,

and there is even theories about it

being swept up into another dimension.

NARRATOR: So maybe a vortex in the triangle

could cause planes to crash and even to disappear.

But is there any real evidence of a vortex?

The best comes not from planes, but ships,

and from an area far to the south.

RICKSECKER: These vortices can affect objects

that are even larger, like ships.

You hear about these disappearances

in the Bermuda Triangle

and ships that have gone down there are completely missing.

NARRATOR: The Bermuda Triangle as a vortex?

One witness says that's exactly what he encountered

when making a routine flight across these waters.

And his story might hold the key to the missing Douglas.

♪♪

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NARRATOR: The Alaska Triangle --

a land of mystery and of danger.

Over 16,000 people have gone missing.

It's a large, untapped landmass

with all sorts of strange anomalies and sightings.

I think what we're looking at here is probably

one of the most important mysteries on the planet.

NARRATOR: In January 1950,

shortly after a Douglas C-54 vanished,

a massive air search was launched to find the plane.

What's really interesting is, three of those aircraft crashed.

[ Radio chatter ]

Nobody knows why they crashed.

It's still a mystery.

NARRATOR: And the Douglas has never been found.

Could it have flown into a portal,

a wormhole in space and time?

♪♪

Evidence that this might be the case

comes from the furthest point in the U.S. from Alaska --

Miami, Florida.

♪♪

Bruce Gernon has flown the skies over Miami for over 50 years,

but he's had one flying experience unlike any other.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

I'm the only living person to fly through a vortex.

Most people probably can't believe it,

and I find it hard to believe myself.

NARRATOR: Bruce's story begins on December 4th, 1970,

when he was flying on the southern edge

of the Bermuda Triangle.

GERNON: We took off right here from Andros at 3:00,

100 miles east of Miami.

And this big horizontal tunnel formed,

and when I entered the mouth of it,

something amazing happened.

Instantly these lines formed,

and they were rotating counterclockwise very slowly.

I realized I was actually seeing the fabric of space and time.

NARRATOR: When Bruce entered the vortex,

he was still far to the east of Miami,

but in just seconds, he found himself flying above the city.

GERNON: I was in this dull-gray fog

and then went to bright blue,

and I could see below me, and there it was --

the city of Miami Beach, right below me.

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As soon as we touched down, I checked my time,

and the flight had only taken 47 minutes.

That doesn't make sense.

I had made this flight at least a dozen times previously,

and it always took an hour and 20 minutes.

I had just witnessed something that was incredible,

that I didn't quite understand,

but I knew I would never forget about it.

When we landed, we would always fill up the airplane

and top it off.

Here's the actual gas receipt here,

and it shows you the exact date, November 4th, 1970.

And as you can see, we only took on 29 gallons.

And I always would take at least 40 gallons of fuel.

And it helps explain that something incredible

really did happen.

♪♪

NARRATOR: If there is a vortex in the Bermuda Triangle,

it could explain one of its most famous incidents.

The story of Flight 19 --

this is a classic Bermuda Triangle story.

NARRATOR: English journalist Jerry Glover

has been looking into the facts behind this famous event.

Flight 19 was a U.S. Air Force squadron, a training squadron.

It flew out from Fort Lauderdale in Florida

in December 1945 on a bombing-practice run --

five Avenger airplanes, 40 men altogether.

They flew east, and after several hours,

all transmissions from them ceased,

and the flight completely disappeared.

Just a few hours after this in the early evening,

a boat plane with 13 men was sent up in search of them.

That plane, too, disappeared with no explanation at all.

Something like 300 boats and planes

were sent out in search of Flight 19,

but no trace of them was ever found.

The whole event has been a mystery ever since.

GOUGH: What happened to Flight 19

in the Bermuda Triangle may never be explained,

but it goes to show that in places like these,

planes can completely disappear and without a trace.

Even though the Bermuda Triangle

is much more well-known around the world,

it's striking that in recent years

we have come to find out more

about the existence of a possible Alaska Triangle

due to the resemblance between mysterious cases

of disappearances that have taken place in that area.

These are all reminiscent of famous Bermuda Triangle cases.

NARRATOR: From the safety of the ground,

Bruce is looking at a simulation

of the Douglas' flight through a portal.

He's curious to know if it bears any relation

to his own experience.

GERNON: What I'm looking at here is an animated video

of what maybe the Douglas experienced in Alaska.

And it shows it flying through the tunnel

and looks very realistic.

It's starting to reach the very end of the tunnel.

It's almost at the end now,

but it looks like it may have just disappeared

before it reached the end.

This could be the same tunnel that I flew through.

It's almost identical. So who knows?

Maybe the same thing happened to the Douglas that happened to me.

NARRATOR: Traveling through space and time

is now something that even NASA has been investigating.

♪♪

In 2011, a NASA space probe was launched

containing four spinning gyroscopes.

♪♪

Over time, the axes drifted,

enough to show that time and space are woven together.

This went a long way to confirming the science

behind space-time vortices.

Could the Douglas craft have flown into a portal,

and is a portal part of the inherent mystery

in the Alaska Triangle?

NARRATOR: If there was a portal in the triangle,

it could explain more than just

the disappearance of the Douglas.

It could explain the mystery of the Alaska Triangle itself.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: Whether the Douglas vanished into a portal

or was abducted by UFOs...

♪♪

...the case of the missing Douglas

remains open and unsolved.

This mystery has taunted the U.S. authorities

since the plane vanished 70 years ago.

Or could there be some in authority

who know more than they're letting on?

RICKSECKER: There are a variety of reasons as to why governments would be

willing to cover up the activity that happens in locations

such as the Alaska Triangle.

You have all these planes that go missing,

people that go missing, there's possible E.T. activity,

you know, and there is also the electromagnetic activity

of the vortices that they themselves

may be trying to harness --

the tests and experiments that they may be doing out there

that they don't want other people to know about.

There is a lack of information being released

about the incident of the Douglas aircraft disappearance.

NARRATOR: And this has led some to suspect a conspiracy.

There's a deeper horror behind some of these stories

that they don't want people to necessarily know.

NARRATOR: But for now,

the answer to the puzzle remains hidden.

This is what's called an action copy.

It's just a standard conclusion

to any investigation that occurred in 1950.

This is the summation of the search-and-rescue effort

for the C-54,

and you can see that on the 23rd of February, 1950,

the search for the missing C-54 aircraft is discontinued.

To this day, the original C-54 has never been found.

85 aircraft, tens of thousands of military personnel

searching 400,000 square miles --

not a trace.

It's as if it vanished into thin air.

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NARRATOR: There's clearly more to the mystery

of the missing Douglas than meets the eye.

The Alaska Triangle doesn't give up its secrets easily.

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