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September 2, 1993
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AVENGER.ASC
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Rick Lawler.
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(INPUT 001)
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The following article, titled 'EXPLORERS MAY HAVE FOUND LOST
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SQUADRON', appeared in the Tuesday, May 21, 1991 issue of THE HERALD
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MAGAZINE (Provo, Utah) and was written by Associated Press Writer
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Richard Cole:
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"MIAMI (AP) -- One of the Bermuda Triangle's deepest mysteries
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may be solved -- high tech explorers have located what appear to be
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the wrecks of five Navy planes that vanished off Florida in 1945, a
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salvor said.
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"The five TBM Avengers, four of which appear to be in excellent
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condition, were spotted in 750 feet of water, about 10 miles off
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Fort Lauderdale, said Robert Cervoni, managing director of
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Scientific Search Project.
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"'It was incredible -- we were filled with excitement,' said
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Cervoni. 'We rushed out to the library and tried to read everything
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we could about the Bermuda Triangle.'
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"The exploration vessel Deep See, armed with sonar instruments
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and underwater cameras, made the discovery in early May while
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searching for sunken Spanish galleons. The company released the
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information last week after filing their salvage claim in Miami
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federal court.
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"The U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp granted the initial
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claim, although the Navy has been granted a chance to contest it,
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said Barbara Locke, an attorney for the company.
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"Navy spokesmen in Washington, D.C., had no immediate reaction.
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"The team's first priority is to send submersible robots down
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to the site to determine if the planes are indeed the so-called
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'Lost Squadron,' which disappeared Dec. 5, 1945, during a
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training flight from the Naval Airbase in Fort Lauderdale.
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"No trace of the planes or the pilots was ever found after they
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apparently became DISORIENTED over the Atlantic. The disappearance
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helped build the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, an area bounded by
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Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico where ships and planes seemed to
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vanish mysteriously.
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"The daughter of one of the pilots said the news was hard to
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accept. Susan Powers-Spengler, the daughter of Capt. Edward Powers
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Jr., was a 15-month-old toddler when her father disappeared with the
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squadron.
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"'After all these years you want something to turn up, yet when
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you hear that they were 10 miles off of Fort Lauderdale... it's
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real difficult to deal with because they were so close,' said Ms.
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Powers-Spengler, who lives in Connecticut. 'It's been very
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difficult tonight.'
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"The team's archaeologist, Ted Darcy, of the Kailua, Hawaii-
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based aircraft recovery company said that while initial indications
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were positive, he cannot yet confirm the planes' identities with
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certainty. THE NAVY LOST MORE THAN 100 TBM AVENGERS OFF FLORIDA, he
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noted.
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"One link to the Lost Squadron is a number spotted on the
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sunken lead plane -- 28 -- the same as the number on Flight 19's
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lead plane, said Darcy. A second link is the letters FT visible on
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some of the planes, the Navy's designation for Fort Lauderdale-based
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aircraft.
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"Another positive indication is the number of the aircraft. No
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other ditching of five Avengers was ever reported by the Navy, said
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Darcy.
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"'Four of the planes are in relatively good condition,' said
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Cervoni. 'All the glass is intact, there's not much damage. But
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the flight leader's was broken cleanly in two.'
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"That raises the possibility that the lead plane, which had a
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shorter range than the others, ran out of fuel, and the others
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ditched behind it.
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"Graham Hawkes, a top designer of submersibles who was on the
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Deep See when the planes were spotted, said their spacing pattern
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suggested they went down within about two minutes of each other.
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"Hawkes said historians say the other pilots, expecting they
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too would run out of fuel before reaching their home base, had
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agreed to ditch at the same spot when the first plane went down in
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an effort to make rescue easier.
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"NO HUMAN REMAINS were visible in the sunken planes, Cervoni
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said.
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"Cervoni said that while the Deep See and the submersibles,
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which are being operated by Hawkes of Deep Ocean Engineering, are
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sufficient to establish the planes' identifications, actual salvage
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would require a barge and cranes, along with special chemicals and
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equipment to preserve the aircraft."
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The question that should be asked here is this: Were the
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Avenger pilots, as well as the THOUSANDS of persons who have
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disappeared in the 'triangle' over the years, the hapless victims
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of some freak electromagnetic phenomena; or were they the targets
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of some ancient and sinister force or intelligence?
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(INPUT 002)
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Steven Brodie was a man of many talents and hobbies, among them
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painting and rock collecting. Several years back, he decided to
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investigate a certain area in Arizona where he had heard quartz
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crystals could be found in abundance. Brodie convinced a friend
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of his, also an avid rock collector, to join him on an
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expedition. After purchasing a ticket on a passenger train, they
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traveled to a certain small community in Arizona, which was near
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the site they desired to explore.
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According to researcher John J. Robinson, who related the
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account as he heard it from Steve Brodie, the name of the Arizona
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town was not given. John J. Robinson, by the way, was a well-
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known UFOlogist in the 1950's, and the account as it was related
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to him was mentioned by Robinson during an interview which was
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heard by tens of thousands of listeners to the 'Long John Nebel'
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radio talk-show on station W.O.R. of New York, in March of 1957.
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The two rock hounds had their eyes on one particular bluff
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which they could see in the distance, from the town they were in.
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Other town residents heard about their plans and warned them
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against going to that bluff, as SEVERAL people had in the past
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disappeared without a trace in that area. Brodie and his friend
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blew off their warnings, considering them mere superstitions
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which they should not take seriously, and set out towards the
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bluff. They had no sooner approached the bluff than out of the
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shadows emerged two beings who were each cowled in a dark cloak
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and hood, making it very difficult to discern their features or
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whether they were even human or not. After being confronted,
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Brodie's friend panicked and attempted to make a run for it.
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Steve swore that at this point one of the black cloaked figures
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raised some kind of weapon and a brilliant pencil beam of light
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shot from it and hit his friend, who immediately fell down
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motionless. From what Brodie could gather his friend had been
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killed, although he never did see his body after that.
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Following this one of the 'beings' came up to Brodie, who
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did not resist but stood where he was in shock, and he or it
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placed some type of device over his head, like a metal headset
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with two metallic 'discs' which fitted over his temples. He
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started to lose consciousness.
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The next thing he remembered after gaining consciousness
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again was of being in some type of dungeon or cavern like
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enclosure in a prison-like cell. Others were there was well.
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Most of the people there seemed to be under some type of trance
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or mind control, and as far as he knew, he was one of them. He
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dimly recalls 'waking up' a few times, but usually when this
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happened one of the dark robed creatures would come over to the
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cage or enclosure where he was and point a rod-shaped device at
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him, at which point he would black out again. During one of his
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brief conscious episodes, he had a chance to talk to another
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prisoner, a girl, who told him that the dark-robed figures were
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known as the 'dero'.
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That, basically, was all that he remembered. The incredible
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part of the story, however, was the fact that several months
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afterwards he suddenly 'came to' or became conscious once again.
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He just found himself walking down the streets of New York City
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one day! He had no idea how he got there, or where he had been
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the past six months. It was like 'waking up' out of a bad dream
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or nightmare, the majority of which he could not remember. In
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addition to this, he found that someone had given him a haircut
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(he didn't know whom).
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Whether or not this account has any connection to the many
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'rumors' of strange and ancient caverns and tunnels below New
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York City is uncertain. Some cautiously speak of such tunnels
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being used by a MIB-like secret society, connecting with the
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lowest sub-basements of the Empire State building and other
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structures, and as being the possible destination of many of
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those who mysteriously end up 'missing' in New York City every
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year. Whether these are mere unfounded 'rumors' is anyones
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guess, at least until solid evidence 'surfaces' to prove such
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accounts.
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John J. Robinson made several visits to Mr. Brodie, and from
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his perceptions of the men he felt that Brodie was sincere in
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what he was saying, but was constantly paranoid and in fear that
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he was 'being followed' or that someone or something was
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constantly watching or stalking him. Also, Brodie would often
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paint bizarre other-worldly landscapes, even though he wasn't
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used to painting in that style until after his 'experience',
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which Robinson thought peculiar. Then one day Robinson stopped
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by Brodie's apartment to pay him a visit and he was no where to
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be found. No one seemed to know what happened to him, and that
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was the last time Mr. Robinson ever saw Steve again.
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The 'Steve Brodie' account, incidentally, was also related
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in an article in the Vol. 1, No. 3, 1971 issue of 'STRANGE'
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magazine, and also in early issues of 'SAUCER NEWS', of which
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John J. Robinson, who lived in Jersey City, New Jersey at the
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time, was assistant editor.
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