The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western North Atlantic Ocean where numerous aircrafts and ships are alleged to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It is bounded roughly by Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the island of Bermuda. Estimates of how many incidents have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle over the past 500 years range from about 200 to over 1,000. Some of the more famous disappearances include the USS Cyclops which vanished in 1918 with 309 crew members, five US Navy bombers that went missing in 1945, and a commercial passenger plane that disappeared in 1948 when it was only 50 miles from Florida. Various theories have been proposed to explain the disappearances, including aliens, the lost city of