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The 500,000km square stretch of ocean around Bermuda has long been associated with the vanishing of ships and aircrafts.

The deadly triangle has long been an unexplained mystery – but a group of pioneering scientists believe they have cracked the case.

They claim to have found hexagonal clouds in the North Sea near Britain.

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Dr Steve Miller, satellite meteorologist at Colorado State University, said: “You don’t typically see straight edges with clouds.

“Most of the time, clouds are random in their distribution,” he told the Science Channel’s What on Earth.

Using radar satellites to measure what was happening beneath the clouds, they found that sea level winds were reaching almost 170mph.

That’s powerful enough to generate waves of over 45ft high as “air bombs” are forced to come crashing down towards the ocean.

They also noted that massive clouds were appearing over the western tip of the islands – ranging from 20 to 55 miles across.

Meteorologist Randy Cerveny said: “These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence air bombs.

“They form microbursts and they’re blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and then hit the ocean and then create waves that can sometimes be massive in size.”

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The wind blast from microburst can spread outwards at speeds of 170 miles per hour – more than enough to flip ships and push planes down.

The biggest recorded loss was in 1945 when five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers never showed up after a radio call from the 14 men on board that their compasses stopped working.

Three rescue planes also disappeared.