It has been almost three decades since Steven Spielberg 'solved' the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in his classic science-fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Lost Patrol, five US Navy training aircraft that vanished without trace off the Florida coast in December 1945 in the notorious triangular stretch of the Atlantic bordered by Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico, were simply abducted by aliens.
It might be a far-fetched theory, but nobody today is really any closer to the truth. This month's 60th anniversary of the sudden disappearance of Flight 19, and a rescue plane sent to find them, has provoked renewed interest in hundreds of missing ships and aircraft, but the triangle remains an enigma destined never to be fully resolved.
'People are fascinated by the Bermuda Triangle because it's one of the world's great mysteries,' said Gian Quasar, a California-based author who has spent more than a decade researching the subject.
'The last island has been discovered, the last mountain has been climbed, but there's something here still to be discovered.
'There's also something tangible about it all. The aircraft and ships that disappeared did exist, the people who were on them were real people.'