Larry Kusche

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Lawrence David Kusche (November 1, 1940) is an author and was a commercial pilot, flight instructor, instrument-rated pilot and instrument instructor when he wrote The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved (ISBN 0-87975-971-2) (1975) and The Disappearance of Flight 19 (1980).

Larry Kusche was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. In the early seventies he became interested in the Bermuda Triangle mystery and began to gather information from varied sources. When he began his research for the first book he thought the Triangle truly was a mystery, but as he researched in reliable sources, the incidents that were used to show that strange things were happening "in that small wedge of the ocean," he found that virtually all the incidents had been caused by storms or accidents, or they happened far from the Triangle, or no proof could be found that they ever occurred at all. His conclusion was that the Triangle was a "manufactured mystery," the result of poor research and reporting, and occasionally, deliberate falsification of facts.

He wrote The Disappearance of Flight 19 after studying the Navy's report of the investigation, interviewing many of the Navy personnel who were involved at the time, and flying the route himself. At the time, the lost flight of five torpedo bombers was said to be a victim of the mysterious forces in the Triangle. He explained why the flight leader erroneously thought he was in the Florida Keys, why he said his compass had failed, and why no wreckage has yet been found.

Kusche's first book was re-issued in the 1990s and this prompted at least one website author to attempt to show that Kusche's findings were innaccurate and his research methods suspect^[1]

After publication of the books, Kusche became a Fellow of CSICOP - the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.