As this additional energy comes into the storm activity, it ionizes the air wall and this generates, quote, the “electronic fog”. And as an airplane approaches, it can disrupt the instruments, cause navigation failure, and spin the compass.

Pierce takes a closer look at the weather on the day 'Flight 19' disappeared. He thinks that the conditions were perfect for an electronic fog and that's what sent their navigational equipment haywire.

 

It simply stated that this compass spin was a contributing cause for the demise in the flight.

 

But it's a contentious idea that's rejected by mainstream science and other skeptics of the Triangle.

 

Science can't find this. There is no particular phenomenon called the electronic fog. The idea that some kind of electromagnetism is, is at work knocking out ships and planes, is just part of the pseudoscience of the Bermuda Triangle mystery mongers.

 

So can Pierce back up his theories? Today, he is flying with Bruce Gerranan to an area over Florida where he thinks he previously encountered the electronic fog.

 

You see here what’s going up would be telegraphs,but let’s hope that’s electronic fog. But that’s no point in that area, so really some activities going on right now.

 

Pierce wants to prove the existence of the electronic fog and determine the exact conditions that create it by collecting detailed electrical readings in the developing clouds. But then, the plane's electronics start to fail.

 

I think we have a little problem. I am getting a local degrading.

 

The plane's power supply drops dangerously low.

 

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on,and what we are doing with, it’s,er, I’ve got a discharge for some reason.

 

Our plane is in trouble at the edge of the Bermuda Triangle.

 

Yeah, the electric problem. We have a weak discharge for some reason.