Experts investigate whether an interdimensional portal in the Alaska Triangle led to the disappearance of an airplane carrying 44 military personnel in 1950.
Experts investigate whether an interdimensional portal in the Alaska Triangle led to the disappearance of an airplane carrying 44 military personnel in 1950.
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SPEAKER 1: Alaska, a vast remote wilderness twice the size of Texas.
JONNY ENOCH: There are dangerous, unpredictable forces at work here.
SPEAKER 1: In one of the most mysterious corners of the globe.
SPEAKER 2: A lot of things can kill you out here without even trying.
SPEAKER 1: This is a place hundreds of times more deadly than the Bermuda Triangle.
JAMES FOX: Oh, my God!
SPEAKER 1: Stories of alien abductions.
JARED
AUGUSTINE:
I believe it was a UFO.
SPEAKER 1: The paranormal vanishing airplanes and strange beasts.
JARED
AUGUSTINE:
The Alaskan Bigfoot, he can rip you in half.
JAMES FOX: These accounts are really widespread.
JARED
AUGUSTINE:
[BLEEP] They picked out of the tree right there.
SPEAKER 1: Have haunted those who dare set foot here. In the last 30 years, 16,000 people have disappeared without a
trace.
JAMES FOX: More people have disappeared than the Bermuda Triangle, two to three times the amount.
SPEAKER 1: Witnesses tell us their shocking stories.
SPEAKER 3: I was petrified.
SPEAKER 1: And we've gathered some of the world's leading experts in their field.
SPEAKER 4: I'm always after scientific evidence that can be independently corroborated.
SPEAKER 1: To try and unlock the mystery of the Alaska Triangle.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The Alaska Triangle is one of the most mysterious and dangerous places on Earth. So few people live here, yet so
many disappear.
JONNY ENOCH: When we look at the Alaska Triangle, it's absolutely frightening. Ships have gone missing. Planes have been
down. People have disappeared and vanished off the face of the Earth.
JESSIE
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
JONNY ENOCH: Could the Douglas craft have flown into a portal, and is a portal part of the inherent mystery in the Alaska
Triangle? I think what could have happened to the missing Douglas is probably one of the most important
mysteries on the planet.
SPEAKER 1: 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 26, 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.
DAN HAMPTON:How in 1950 could a plane this size with 44 people on board vanish in the Alaska Triangle? It remains a mystery
to this day.
SPEAKER 1: One man is on a quest to find out what happened to the Douglas. Veteran US Air Force Pilot Dan Hampton has
flown over 150 combat missions, including in Iraq and the Gulf War. And as 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.
DAN HAMPTON:This was a C-54 standard military transport carrying people, cargo, equipment, things like that.
SPEAKER 1: With a wingspan of over 100 feet, the Douglas C-54 was one of the most important planes in the US Air Force.
DAN HAMPTON:This particular C-54 was carrying 36 passengers, some military, some military dependents, and eight crew
members. The plane took off from Elmendorf Air Force base, headed East 240 miles of its first mandatory
reporting point right on the border of the Yukon territory in 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.
SPEAKER 1: The Douglas was on a well-worn flight path. But these were volatile times, the two great superpowers, the US
and Russia, then the Soviet Union, were in a nuclear arms race. And each would do anything to get the upper
hand.
DAN 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.
SPEAKER 1: Alaska is only 56 miles from the Soviet Union. And the Soviets knew that us nuclear bombers could be over their
territory within minutes. The world was on the brink, and all eyes were on Alaska. Historian Sasha Auerbach has
been looking at the recently released government files from the Cold War.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
Nuclear weapons were the most powerful thing that the US 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 won every strategic advantage. And Alaska is absolutely the key to that.
DAN 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.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
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.
What's also interesting is that this happened the same year that the US was about to have its first operational
hydrogen bomb. So I'm sure the tension was super high.
SPEAKER 1: The US military were immediately concerned that the Soviets might have down 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.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
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.
DAN 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.
SPEAKER 1: At the time of the disappearance, the US and Canadian Armed forces were about to start a big war games
operation. But now, the missing plane took top priority.
DAN HAMPTON:They canceled the war games and put all those resources and people into this search effort.
SPEAKER 1: Confidence was high. The US military in Alaska were experts in search and rescue.
SPEAKER 6: 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.
SPEAKER 1: 7,000 ground troops and 85 aircraft were deployed to help in the search.
DAN HAMPTON:What this 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 the C-54.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
They end up searching about 300,000 square miles of territory, which is massive. It's a space the size of
Venezuela.
DAN HAMPTON:The scale of this is unprecedented. So it makes you wonder, was there really something special or unique about
this flight that it had to be found? Or was it because there's somebody on board that made it necessary to find it?
SPEAKER 1: A list of the passengers and crew reveals no one out of the ordinary. It was a routine flight. Perhaps there was
something on board, a secret piece of tech, top secret information, evidence of some kind that the authorities
wanted to remain hidden.
DAN HAMPTON:Or was it necessary to find it because of where it went down?
SPEAKER 1: 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?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Veteran pilot Dan Hampton is investigating the case of the Douglas C-54 that went missing in the Alaska Triangle
in 1950.
DAN HAMPTON:This was called a Form 14. And it's a 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.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
The Douglas just goes missing. There's no distress calls whatsoever. It is just disappeared from the face of the
Earth.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
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?
SPEAKER 1: 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.
JONNY ENOCH: During the search and rescue effort, there are 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.
An airplane was participating in this 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
DAN HAMPTON:On February 14, 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 non-stop.
SPEAKER 1: The nuclear bomber was on an exercise, simulating a strike against the Soviets.
JONNY ENOCH: 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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. 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.
JONNY ENOCH: The plane goes down and is lost along with the nuclear weapon and several thousand pounds of conventional
explosives as well.
SPEAKER 1: The bomb was never found. It was the first loss of a nuclear bomb in history.
JONNY ENOCH: 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 going to 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.
DAN HAMPTON:Four airplanes lost within a 30-day period, including a front line nuclear bomber. What is going on inside the
Alaska Triangle?
SPEAKER 1: Hostile Soviet activity is ruled out. The military had to start considering other possibilities.
DAN HAMPTON:The first thing that leaps to mind is some sort of electromagnetic interference with the magnetic navigation
instruments onboard. That's all they had.
ANDREW
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.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
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.
DAN HAMPTON:This is up near the pole. I've flown up there. I've had my magnetic base back up 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 going to 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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? Disappearances in the Alaska Triangle are
frighteningly commonplace. But there's one incident that haunted the US military for more than 70 years. 44
military personnel gone without a trace.
JONNY ENOCH: In one of the big mystery disasters of the US Air Force, the plane vanished.
SPEAKER 1: Why has the Douglas never been found?
[PLANE HOVERING]
Some who have been researching the case have come up with a disturbing theory.
JESSIE
DESMOND:
I do think the Douglas incident could have been intervention by a UFO.
SPEAKER 1: Jessie Desmond is the Alaskan state director from MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
JESSIE
DESMOND:
Alaska is a great place for refers 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.
SPEAKER 1: In 2003, there was a reported sighting of a whole mass of UFOs in a deserted area just 200 miles South of
Fairbanks. Now, Jesse has found a close link between UFOs in the military.
JESSIE
DESMOND:
Alaska refers, 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 use those to
detect UFOs over Alaska airspace. And then we had waves of UFO sightings all over the state.
SPEAKER 1: One of the most famous was in 1986 when the crew of a Japanese airline flight witnessed two UFOs trailed 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 10, 1950 reveals that UFOs were stalking US 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's departure point in Anchorage. MUFON investigator Jeremy Ray has been analyzing the reports.
JEREMY RAY: Shortly before the disappearance of the Douglas Aircraft, that 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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. 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. The Navy chiefs issued a top secret report
to the highest levels of the US government. Journalist and researcher Andrew Goff has been on the trail of this
report.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
The 1950s report was so important that 36 copies of the Navy's detailed analysis was sent to various security
agencies, such as the FBI, the CIA, the Air Force Intelligence, and even the Department of State.
SPEAKER 1: This document about the Kodiak UFO encounter never saw the light of day until the 1970s when a Freedom of
Information request forced the US authorities to release a redacted version.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
This strikes me as yet another government cover up. They know what's going on, and they are not going to let
the public know because they are afraid that they won't be able to handle it.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
JEREMY 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.
SPEAKER 1: An Elmendorf commander spotted three orange objects above the air base. They hovered at around 25,000 feet,
then they mysteriously vanished.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
Now, the 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
JEREMY 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 pilots reporting UFOs taking control of the aircrafts.
SPEAKER 1: 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 planes never been found.
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.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
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 six 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. 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?
SPEAKER 1: But a few weeks after the Douglas disappeared in Alaska, there were strange signs that the plane might still be
out there.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
On the 2nd of February faint radio signals were heard.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
This is what had the search teams continuing to hold out hope that they were going to find the C-54. So for
example, here's the story from February 1 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 STATIC]
JEREMY RAY: People can hear chatter of 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 STATIC]
ANDREW
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.
[RADIO STATIC]
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 are picking this up?
SPEAKER 1: The radio messages continued to taunt the search teams for days after the Douglas's disappearance. But
gradually, they became more distant.
[RADIO STATIC]
Far away voices, magnetic anomalies. This evidence has led some experts to come up with a startling idea.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
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.
SASCHA
AUREBACH:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
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.
SPEAKER 1: For Mike, vortices are a part of this interconnection.
MIKE
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's even
theories about it being swept up into another dimension.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
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 or completely missing.
SPEAKER 1: The Bermuda Triangle is a vortex. One witness says that's exactly what he encountered when making a routine
flight across these waters. Bruce Gernon has flown the skies over Miami for over 50 years. But he's had one flying
experience unlike any other.
BRUCE
GERNON:
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.
SPEAKER 1: Bruce's story begins on December 4, 1970 when he was flying on the Southern edge of the Bermuda Triangle.
BRUCE
GERNON:
We took our freight 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
BRUCE
GERNON:
I was in this dull gray fog, and then went to bright blue. And I could see below me, there it was, the city of Miami
Beach right below me. 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 4, 1970. And as you can see, we
only took on 29 gallons. And it always would take at least 40 gallons of fuel. And it helps explain that something
incredible really did happen.
[PLANE HOVERING]
SPEAKER 1: If there is a vortex in the Bermuda Triangle, it could explain one of its most famous incidents.
JERRY GLOVER: The story of Flight 19, this is the classic Bermuda Triangle story.
SPEAKER 1: English journalist Jerry Glover has been looking into the facts behind this famous event.
JERRY GLOVER: Flight 19 was a US Air Force squadron, a training squadron. It flew out from Fort Lauderdale in Florida in
December 1945 on a bombing practice run. Five Avenger aeroplanes, 14 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.
ANDREW
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.
JERRY GLOVER: 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
BRUCE
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. It 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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 spacetime vortices.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
Could the Douglas craft have flown into a portal? And is a portal part of the inherent mystery in the Alaska
Triangle?
SPEAKER 1: 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. Whether the Douglas vanished into a portal or was abducted
UFOs, the case of the missing Douglas remains open and unsolved. This mystery has taunted the US authorities
since the plane vanished 70 years ago. Or could there be some in authority who know more than they're letting
on?
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
There are a variety of reasons as to why governments 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, a
possible ET activity. And there's also the electromagnetic activity of the vortices that they themselves may be
trying to harness, tests and experiments that they may be doing out there that they don't want other people to
know about.
ANDREW
GOUGH:
There is a lack of information being released about the incident of the Douglas Aircraft disappearance.
SPEAKER 1: And this has led some to suspect a conspiracy.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
There's a deeper horror behind some of these stories that they don't want people to necessarily know.
SPEAKER 1: But for now, the answer to the puzzle remains hidden.
DAN HAMPTON:This is what's called an action copy. It's just the 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
[MUSIC PLAYING]