They Saw Amelia Earhart Alive?

[Double Nought Spy]

What the hell? This makes about as much sense as looking for Jimmy Hoffa with a Geiger counter and Captain Kidd's treasure map. The one on the Pizza Hut place mat. There are dozens of variables sufficient to render any results accurate to within 1,000 miles. Maybe. If yer lucky.

Earhart was known to be, shall we say, less than proficient in the use of the radios she had, and Noonan had none back where he was confined by the fuel tanks, if memory serves. He probably would have been a decent radio operator but they communicated by passing notes back and forth via a fishing rod or something. I don't think Earhart even knew how to operate the direction finder.

Anyway, as a junket this looks top rate.

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

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Dynamic Aviation joins project to find Amelia Earhart’s plane

BRIDGEWATER, Va. (WHSV) - Almost 100 years after American aviator Amelia Earhart took her first flight, her resting place has yet to be found but a local aviation group is helping to find an answer.

It’s one of aviation’s greatest mystery, what happened to Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan after they disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during her final flight in 1937.

Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater has loaned its Beechcraft Model-18 aircraft to be used in new testing performed by Nauticos, a deep ocean exploring organization and Collins Radio Engineers off of Cape Charles, Va.

At the end of the month, the group will recreate Earhart’s communication link between aircraft and by boat. “What we’re going to do is simulate the actual flight into what would be Itasca and simulate that flight that lasts part of her flight in 1937,” Tom Vinson, with Collins Radio Engineers, said.

The Beech-18 will be equipped with radio equipment and antennas to measure the signal strength of Earhart’s last transmission. “It makes a perfect platform then for us to add on high-frequency antennas on it and direction-finding loop like she had on hers,” Vinson said.

The test is now possible with current technology, but the same radio equipment Earhart was using in the 1930′s will be used on the tests.

A female voice similar to Earhart’s will also be played during the test. “Through the tests we can narrow down the band of how far was she for her last several transmissions,” Vinson said.

The group of volunteers hopes to use the data they collect from the tests off the coast of Virginia, to where they believe Earhart’s craft is at, and bring it back home. “We would like to have it taken back to Hawaii and then Hawaii to California to finish her flight to finish the Earhart flight,” Vinson said.

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This is something that I'll follow.

 

[nivek]

Nuclear Scientists Believe Amelia Earhart Wreckage Is The 'Real Deal'

The case of Amelia Earhart's disappearance is still one that draws much discussion, nearly 84 years after the famous pilot's plane went missing somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Now, nuclear scientists think they're about to crack the mystery.

Among her many records, Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean during a time when aviation was still in its relative infancy in 1928. She also authored many books about her escapades, becoming a celebrity in the United States.

However, she is now largely remembered due to the mysterious nature of her disappearance and assumed death in 1937, after last being seen with with her navigator Fred Noonan in Lae, New Guinea, on 2 July 1937, on the last land stop before Howland Island and one of their final legs of an attempt to circumnavigate a flight around the world.

Nuclear scientists are going to solve the conundrum once and for all though by using neutrons to probe wreckage from the remote island of Nikumaroro, a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean.

A piece of fuselage was recovered from the island in 1991, amid speculation that Earhart had landed there back in 1937. However, it was damaged by decades of rolling around on the ocean floor, and researchers never had a way to confirm if it was from the aviator's plane.

Nuclear scientist Daniel Beck, though, will have the wreckage analysed by the Radiation Science & Engineering Center at Pennsylvania State University where he works.

Beck attributes watching the National Geographic documentary Expedition Amelia as giving him the idea to analyse it using nuclear science, and subsequently contacted Richard Gillespie of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, who had found the wreckage initially.

Gillespie said of the piece of wreckage: "The size of the artefact matches a patch that was installed on the Earhart aircraft when she was in Miami, Florida, in late May 1937 at the start of her second world flight attempt."

He continued: "The artefact was removed from an aircraft by a combination of stress and human action."

Explaining how the scientists would be analysing the wreckage, Gillespie explained: "Two processes will be used to probe the piece of fuselage. One will be neutron radiography, whereby the wreckage is placed between a neutron beam and an imaging plate, creating a sort nuclear x-ray."

This will give an impression of the wreckage and may reveal clues hidden to the naked eye due to decades of erosion, such as a serial number or trace amounts of paint.

Gillespie explained that the other process will be Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), which will reveal the material makeup of the artefact with parts-per-billion sensitivity thanks to a process that will release specific energy gamma rays, and he's confident that the artefact will be the real deal.

"All of its physical properties - the type of aluminum, the thickness of the sheet, the type and size of the one surviving rivet, are correct for Earhart's aircraft", he said.

TIGHAR have also recovered a photo taken of Nikumaroro three months after Earhart's plane disappeared, which appears to show an unidentified object in the water, while various other artefacts have been recovered from the island too, including a pocket knife matching the one in Earhart's inventory and glassware matching a type used for women's cosmetics in the 1930s.

Ultimately, the findings could reveal if the fuselage really did come from Earhart's doomed aircraft, and Beck said: "There are many theories out there awaiting the final clue to confirm her final location.

"We look forward to using science to provide additional information to help the mystery come closer to being solved."

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[nivek]

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Massive Earhart Mural Called Into Question​

A massive mural which celebrates an alleged 1937 stop in Malaysia by famed aviator Amelia Earhart is being called into question by historians who say that the pioneering pilot never even visited the country. The enormous painting (which can be seen below) measures a whopping 88 feet by 12 feet and can be found in the community of Taiping, where it was unveiled to the public back in 2019. At the time, the mural was the source of some controversy as many residents felt that the artwork was excessive considering that Earhart was said to have only stopped in the town to refuel her plane before resuming her attempt at flying around the globe.

Now, three years later, the painting is back in the cross hairs of critics who reportedly say that the entire tale is simply not true. Local historian Nor Hisham Zulkiflee raised the issue on social media last week and said that, contrary to what the inscription on the painting says, Earhart did not stop in Taiping in 1937 and, instead, had only requested permission to land there in the event that her plane needed to be refueled. However, Zulkiflee explained, the aviator opted to fly on ahead to Singapore rather than make a stop in Malaysia. Asserting that he had told the mural's creators this information at the time that it was being painted, he lamented that "our input was ignored."

With that in mind, Zulkiflee lambasted the mural for the egregious inaccuracy and declared that "historical facts must not be changed, as this is something the whole world will be reading about." In response to the controversy, local official Datuk Nolee Ashilin Mohamed Radzi said that she would "ask the municipal council to check on the matter, and if there are indeed any contradicting facts, then steps must be taken to make things right." Presumably that would entail removing the inscription on the giant mural which would wind up becoming merely a monument to an urban legend that apparently never actually happened.

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[nivek]

Curious Codes Found on Suspected Earhart Debris​

A scientific analysis of suspected debris from Amelia Earhart's plane has uncovered curious codes that had previously been invisible to the naked eye. The intriguing discovery was reportedly made by researchers at the Penn State Radiation Science and Engineering Center, who offered to examine the mysterious aluminum panel last year after lab member Daniel Beck saw a TV special on the disappearance of the famed aviator. What piqued his interest was the possibility that their technology could be used to find previously unseen details in the piece, which was discovered back in 1991 on the island of Nikumaroro, where many believe the lost pilot ultimately landed.

He explained that "we were fairly confident we'd be able to see the remnants of marks worn away or paint particles" on the debris by way of the Penn State Breazeale Reactor, which is a device that uses neutron radiography to detect tiny details in or on an object that are otherwise impossible to discern. Beck's suspicions proved to be correct as the lab announced their findings this week and indicated that they had discovered some particularly fantastic aspects of the aluminum piece in the form of snippets of text. Described by lab director Kenan Ünlü as "stamped or painted marks," the writing reads XRO, 3D, D24 and 335 or 385.

As for what the text might signify, Ünlü theorized that it "could be from the original manufacturer" and marveled that the writing is "the first new information from this panel that has been examined by various experts with different scientific techniques for over 30 years." Now armed with these new codes, Earhart researchers hope that they can be used to somehow determine the origins of the piece and, if possible, prove that it had been come from Earhart's plane. Should that be the case, it would certainly strengthen the popular theory that the aviator went down somewhere around Nikumaroro, though how and why that happened as well as the pioneering pilot's ultimate fate will likely always remain a mystery.

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[nivek]

Major breakthrough in the search for Amelia Earhart: Experts decipher hidden text on aluminum panel and reveal a new photo that could prove aviatrix died on remote island​

For almost 90 years Amelia Earhart's disappearance has captivated the world.

The pioneering aviatrix was trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe when her plane vanished close to Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

No trace of her or her navigator Fred Noonan were ever found, triggering a wave of outlandish speculation that included a theory she died as a castaway on a remote island and was eaten by giant crabs.

Then, last year, scientific analysis shared with MailOnline revealed a series of hidden letters and numbers etched on an aluminium panel which washed up on Nikumaroro Island in the western Pacific close to where Earhart's aircraft went missing.

It sparked huge excitement that investigators were close to solving one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries, but sadly those hopes have now been dashed — at least for the time being.

Can you spot the clue to Amelia Earhart's disappearance? Experts have revealed a new image undergoing forensic analysis which they think shows an engine cover buried underwater close to a remote island in the Pacific that could have come from the aviator's plane.

Clues to Earhart's disappearance: This map shows where certain evidence has been found in the quest to solve what happened to the famous aviator during her 1937 round-the-world flight.

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[pigfarmer]

No, they probably saw Irene. Long story.

This is a good one, sounds like they finally figured it out. It sounds like the Patterson-Gimlin film to me - we've heard all the separate accounts and opinions but suddenly an answer for all of them appears. The answer sort of means everyone is right about something, they all had a piece of the puzzle in some fashion. A quick line from this episode was something like 'The Smithsonian said we're on the one yard line why not just go ahead and score the touchdown?' Interesting if true.

Japanese capture, lost at sea, killed on impact, secret missions and real conspiracy, military hardware, secret landing strips, two planes. It all sounds nuts but have a listen to this and then see how nuts it is. It really does sound like they have an answer - and physical evidence including human remains.


View: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000636512564

 

[nivek]

Huge breakthrough in search for Amelia Earhart's missing plane as downed aircraft seemingly appears on the ocean floor in incredible new sonar image - 87 years after she mysteriously disappeared​

A South Carolina man believes he may have discovered the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo turned his fascination with the legendary pilot into an adventure when he embarked on an ambitious search for Earhart's lost plane. Romeo, who sold his commercial property investments to fund his search, managed to take a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object on the ocean floor in December.



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[pigfarmer]

I think the South Carolina man may have blown his life savings by finding a plane amongst many planes, not the one he was looking for. If I had to bet life savings I'd listed to this guy - I think they have found it in about 110' of water. It sounds like there are some legal tangles regarding the find that I wasn't paying that much attention to. I might buy the book:

Lost In Flight


View: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amelia-earhart-decoy-for-a-spy-plane/id923527373?i=1000636512564

 

[pigfarmer]

This is why you don't go by UFO and cryptid photos that simply look like what you want them to be.

Not a Lockheed Electra, it's a stupid rock.

Sonar image speculated to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane was just a rock: ‘Outcome isn’t what we hoped for’

 

[nivek]

I know where Amelia Earhart is after tracing bombshell picture... we're off to the island to prove my sickening crab theory​

A team will soon head out to a Pacific atoll to confirm a macabre theory about what happened to trailblazing aviator Amelie Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world adventure. If they're right about the location of her Lockheed Electra, then Earhart will have met an unfortunate fate.

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[nivek]

Is THIS where Amelia Earhart's missing plane is? Pilot 'finds' wreckage of her aircraft​

In July 1937, the legendary female aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, set out from Lae, New Guinea, never to be seen again. Despite the most expensive sea and air search in American history up to that point, no trace has ever been found of Earhart or her plane. Now, a British pilot thinks he has finally tracked down the wreckage of the missing aircraft, 88 years after it was lost.

Captain Justin Myers, who has almost 25 years of experience as a pilot, says he is '99 per cent certain' that he has found the exact location Earhart crash-landed. Using zoomed-in images from Google Earth, Captain Myers spotted a group of shapes he believes are the fragments of the crashed plane. What's more, he claims these submerged objects match the exact dimensions of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E.

According to Captain Myers, Earhart and Noonan crashed on the east coast of Nikumaroro Island, a remote coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Captain Myers is now calling for an expedition to the location to confirm whether his theories are correct.

Captain Myers is not the first to suggest that Earhart and Noonan may have crashed around Nikumaroro Island. Earhart was supposed to have landed at Howland Island to refuel, some 400 miles (640km) to the north. However, low fuel and bad weather may have pushed their aircraft off course and forced an attempted landing on the tiny atoll.

Previous investigations have found artefacts including improvised tools, bits of clothing, and a piece of plexiglas that matches that of an Electra window. For this reason, many people hunting for Earhart's wreckage think the aviator may have landed somewhere near the island and made it to shore before succumbing to the elements. What makes Captain Myers' discovery different is that he claims to have found photographic evidence of the crashed aircraft through Google Earth.

In a blog post, Captain Myers says he became interested in Nikumaroro Island after watching a documentary about Earhart's final flight. He wrote: 'Poor sleep, upper wind predictions not being accurate, probably fatigue and some anxiety would likely have played a part in the disappearance.

'As a pilot, I thought to myself, if I was in Amelia's position trying to find a needle in a hay stack low on fuel and to be honest if we were in her position no doubt using some choice language, where would I force land my Lockheed Electra 10E?' Settling on a long, sandy section on the island's East coast, Captain Myers zoomed in to discover a 'dark coloured perfectly straight object.' Surprisingly, the Google Earth measuring tool revealed the object to be 39 feet (12 metres), the same length as the Lockheed Electra 10E.

Captain Myers wrote: 'A day or so later I had another look, just like that Bang!! 110ft to the west of the metal section was what appeared to be a perfect half exposed radial engine measuring 4-4.5ft in diameter. Just under the engine is a wheel, again half exposed, the wheel is perfect and is in absolute proportion in size; I was struggling to see this was anything other than the debris of a lost vintage aircraft that has been hidden away for years.'

Although Captain Myers says he can't be completely sure this is Earhart and Noonan's Electra, he is certain that it is a vintage plane of the same size. He told Popular Science: 'The bottom line is, from my interests from a child in vintage aircraft and air crash investigation, I can say that is what was once a 12-metre, 2-engine vintage aircraft. What I can't say is that is definitely Amelia's Electra. If this is not Amelia's Electra 10 E, then it's the answer to another mystery that has never been answered. This finding could answer some questions to someone who disappeared many years ago.'

Captain Myers says he would like to see an expedition launched to investigate the objects and confirm once and for all whether this is Earhart's plane. However, he has had little luck getting support for his proposal. Captain Myers says he sent the information to the National Transportation Safety Board in the US, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, and the air crash investigation team in Brisbane.

He also tried to contact Purdue University with the information to see if any historians would be interested in launching an investigation. Despite reaching out over three years ago, Captain Myers has yet to hear anything back in response. Purdue University's reluctance is likely linked to the fact that the university already has its own plans to search for Earhart's wreckage. Last month, researchers announced the launch of an expedition to investigate the so-called 'Taraia Object', a visual anomaly inside the Nikumaroro lagoon widely believed to be the downed Electra.

Last month, Purdue University announced a mission to investigate a different site on Nikumaroro Island known as the Taraia Object. Their mission will launch in November this year, and spend five days investigating the Taraia Object.

The expedition is planned to embark from Majuro in the Marshall Islands on November 5 and spend five days on Nikumaroro inspecting the Taraia Object. If the initial expedition proves successful in confirming the identity of the aircraft, the researchers plan to return for larger excavation efforts in 2026 to uncover and help return what remains of Earhart's plane.

In a statement at the time, Richard Pettigrew, director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, said: 'What we have here is maybe the greatest opportunity ever to finally close the case. With such a great amount of very strong evidence, we feel we have no choice but to move forward and hopefully return with proof.'

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[nivek]

Trump is releasing secret Amelia Earhart files. But after tracing her picture, I know where she is... we're off to the island to prove my sickening crab theory​

A team will soon head out to a Pacific atoll to confirm a macabre theory about what happened to trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart on her 1937 around-the-world adventure. If they're right about the location of her Lockheed Electra, then Earhart will have met an unfortunate fate.



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[pigfarmer]

Politics Trump moves to declassify Amelia Earhart records


It's widely believed that Earhart crashed into the ocean near Howland Island after running out of fuel, says Laurie Gwen Shapiro, a journalist who wrote a book on Earhart. But other theories about where she and her plane ended up have circulated for decades — many of which lack clear evidence. Researchers are planning an expedition to a remote island later this year.

Documents previously released by the FBI contain a 1967 request for a security review of a manuscript that cites Navy files on Earhart that were marked "confidential," a level of classification. The manuscript's author, a senior officer in the Air Force, wrote that the conclusions in the Navy report were that Earhart was not on a spy mission, did not crash-land in Saipan, and was not held as a prisoner or executed as a spy.

The FBI, in approving that manuscript for publication — which is a typical process for current and former government officials — noted that the Navy files did "not warrant classification since the release of it would not be prejudicial to the national defense."

Shapiro called the theory that Earhart was taken captive in Saipan "nonsense."

"It's 99.9% that she ran out of gas," Shapiro told CBS News. She said Earhart and Noonan were low on fuel and "very ill-prepared" for their attempted flight to Howland Island, a tiny, difficult-to-find island in the middle of the ocean.

"It's very boring to tell people, you know what, she ran out of gas," Shapiro said. "The fantasy around it is amazing."

The National Archives and Records Administration has also previously released documents on the search for Earhart.