Did Amelia Earhart survive fateful flight? Photo suggests so

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Did Amelia Earhart survive fateful flight? Photo suggests so
Radar Staff
First posted: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 02:45 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 03:07 PM EDT
A recently uncovered photograph suggests that famed pilot Amelia Earhart may have survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands 80 years ago after her infamous round-the-world flight went horribly wrong, RadarOnline.com has learned.
New possible evidence was discovered in a neglected file in the National Archives.
The image, featured in the upcoming History Channel documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, shows a woman who closely resembles Earhart sitting on a remote South Pacific atoll dock alongside a man who seems to be her navigator, Fred Noonan.
According to NBC News, Shawn Henry, an analyst for the network and former executive assistant director for the FBI, “studied the photo and feels confident it shows the famed pilot and her navigator.”
“When you pull out, and when you see the analysis that’s been done, I think it leaves no doubt to the viewers that that’s Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan,” Henry said of the image.
“This absolutely changes history,” he added of his team’s investigation. “I think we proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she survived her flight and was held prisoner by the Japanese on the island of Saipan, where she eventually died.”
Earhart, then 39, and Noonan, aged 44, set off on the final leg of their dangerous adventure on July 2, 1937, vanishing just hours later.
Earhart was last heard on a radio broadcast to a Coast Guard: “Gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We’re flying at 1,000 feet.”
The mystery disappearance hasn’t been solved in nearly a century.
But now, Henry theorizes that the Japanese military could be behind the aviators’ disappearance, claiming they “may have believed [the two] were American spies.”
Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence premieres on Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. ET.
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Man who discovered Amelia Earhart pix tells his story
Randy Herschaft and Mark Kennedy, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, July 07, 2017 09:43 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 07, 2017 09:56 AM EDT
NEW YORK — The retired federal agent who discovered what he believes is the first photographic evidence of Amelia Earhart alive and well after crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her attempted round-the-world flight says he didn’t initially capture the significance of the image until years later.
The black-and-white photo is of a group of people standing on a dock on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, including one who seems to be a slim woman with her back to the camera. A new documentary airing Sunday on the History channel claims the figure is the famed aviator who disappeared 80 years ago this month.
Retired U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press that he was looking for clues surrounding Earhart’s disappearance in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, when he found the photograph in 2012 in a box filled mostly with text documents from the Office of Naval Intelligence but “didn’t really look at it carefully” because he was looking over thousands of documents and images.
In 2015, he took another pass at the photo. “I looked at it and I went, ‘I can’t believe this!”’ He asked his wife to come over and pointed to the seated person, asking if it seemed to her to be a man or a woman. “She said, ‘It’s a woman!”’ His search led him to identify the ship seen at the right apparently pulling Earhart’s plane wreckage on a barge.
The image is at the heart of the two-hour “Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence,” which argues that Earhart, along with her navigator Fred Noonan, crash-landed in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands, where they were picked up by the Japanese military and held prisoner.
In the documentary, that photo is subjected to facial-recognition and other forensic testing, such as torso measurements. Experts on the show claim the subjects are likely Earhart and Noonan.
Others aren’t convinced, including Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum and an expert on women in aviation. She said Thursday the blurry image isn’t conclusive. “I cannot say definitively that this is Amelia Earhart. That doesn’t mean that it might not be, somehow. But you can’t say that just through the image the way it is.”
The disappearance of Earhart and Noonan on July 2, 1937, in the Western Pacific Ocean has been the subject of continuing searches, research and debate.
The longstanding official theory is that the famed pilot ran out of gas and crashed into deep ocean waters northwest of Howland Island, a tiny speck in the South Pacific that she and Noonan missed.
Other theories have claimed Earhart made an emergency landing on a flat stretch of coral reef off what was then known as Gardner Island, southwest of Howland, although bone fragments found on the island were inconclusive. An Australian researcher once proposed that wreckage spotted by members of his country’s military years ago on a Papua New Guinea island could be hers.
Kinney, who started his career as a naval intelligence agent, said the photograph he found was in a batch of documents collected by U.S. sources in anticipation of the 1944 invasion of the Marshall Islands. “This was a mistake. This was never meant to be there,” he said. The National Archives verified Thursday that the image is from its holdings and was in a file “unrelated to Earhart.”
While the photo is undated, Kinney strongly believes it was taken in July 1937, and he is convinced it shows Earhart and Noonan, based on other evidence including physical landmarks and islanders’ recollections.
Kinney said the presence of two Caucasians on Jaluit Atoll prior to World War II was very unusual. The man’s distinctive widow’s peak seems to match Noonan’s. As for the figure with her back to the camera: “You have one that has a striking resemblance to Amelia Earhart from the back, including the short hair.”
Kinney suspects the pair may have been picked up by a fishing boat and handed over to Japanese authorities, who initially may have had no intention of keeping them. That may explain why there are no handcuffs or restraints in the photo.
“At the moment in time that you’re looking at the photograph, everything is very good there. I don’t think that Noonan or Earhart had any indication whatsoever that they were not going to be shortly released,” he said.
Though Cochrane isn’t convinced, she respects Earhart as a heroine who took chances and was a role model for women. “It would be great to solve it and I’m happy that people are still interested in her, so we’ll just see where it goes,” she said.
On Twitter, follow Herschaft at www.twitter.com/HerschaftAP and Kennedy at www.twitter.com/KennedyTwits
Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence | HISTORY
Man who discovered Amelia Earhart pix tells his story | World | News | Toronto S

 

[Curious Cdn]

Why wouldn't the Japanese divulge something by now? What's the point of hiding this?

 

[coldstream]

Looks to me like a woman on a dock, surrounded by fishermen or mariners of Polynesian extraction. Maybe waiting for a boat, and possibly of the same extraction as the others. I don't see any soldiers, or restraints on the woman. Frankly it takes an imaginative stroke to impose a resemblance to Amelia on her.

Earhart and Noonan died after running out of fuel in search for Howland Island and crashing into the sea. It's possible their remains washed up on shore in the days that followed. The U.S. Navy intercepted her desperate last calls seeking headings or beacons and unable to find landfall. End of story.

 

[spaminator]

Researchers think they know where Amelia Earhart died

Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post

First posted: Sunday, July 09, 2017 09:17 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 09, 2017 09:29 PM EDT

Despite recent claims to the contrary, there's no doubt in Ric Gillespie's mind that Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after her plane crashed on a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean in July 1937.

But he realizes the rest of the world needs a smoking gun.

Or, perhaps, four barking border collies.

Gillespie's group, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), believes that Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator, died as castaways on an empty island in the Pacific Ocean and hoped that the collies' noses would help corroborate this theory.

The dogs - Marcy, Piper, Kayle and Berkeley - have been specially trained to sniff out chemicals left by decaying human remains.

Just last week, the History Channel suggested that Earhart may have been captured by the Japanese after a newly unearthed photograph from the National Archives showed what researchers claim are the pilot and her navigator in Jaluit Harbor in the Marshall Islands after their disappearance.

TIGHAR researchers, on the other hand, continue to believe that Earhart's plane was blown off course by strong Pacific winds. Running out of fuel, Earhart and Noonan landed injured but intact on an empty island 400 miles short of their refueling stop. British officials discovered a partial human skeleton on the island in 1940 but ultimately (and Gillespie believes erroneously) concluded that it didn't belong to the famed aviator.

On June 30, the dogs, their handlers and a group of researchers were dropped on that island - once called Gardner Island, since renamed Nikumaroro - as part of an expedition paid for by National Geographic.

The researchers hoped the dogs would lead them to the site where that skeleton was found. With a lot of luck and a little DNA analysis, researchers believed they could unearth a bone and solve an 80-year-old missing-person case.

The collies got part of the way there.

According to National Geographic:

"Within moments of beginning to work the site, Berkeley, a curly red male, lay down at the base of a ren tree, eyes locked on his handler, Lynne Angeloro. The dog was 'alerting,' indicating to Angeloro that he had detected the scent of human remains.

"Next up was Kayle, a fluffy, eager-to-please female. She also alerted on the same spot. The next day Marcy and Piper, two black-and-white collies, were brought to the site. Both dogs alerted.

"The signals were clear: Someone - perhaps Earhart or her navigator, Fred Noonan - had died beneath the ren tree."

But TIGHAR researchers discovered no bones there. They've sent soil samples to a lab capable of extracting human DNA but haven't obtained results yet. They concede it's a long shot.

That means Gillespie's theory about Earhart's final days remains just that.

It has some competition. Most people - and the U.S. government, which declared Earhart and Noonan dead after they couldn't be found - believe that Earhart's plane went into the Pacific Ocean and that all that remains of the failed expedition is resting on the seabed.

Others believe Earhart and Noonan were captured by the Japanese, a theory that has recently been revived by the discovery of the newly unearthed photo that purportedly shows Earhart and Noonan alive in the Marshall Islands.

In the photo, according to The Washington Post's Amy B Wang, "a figure with Earhart's haircut and approximate body type sits on the dock, facing away from the camera. ... Toward the left of the dock is a man they believe is Noonan. On the far right of the photo is a barge with an airplane on it, supposedly Earhart's."

Gillespie thinks the claim from the picture showing Jaluit Harbor is rubbish and worries that a lot of people will be misled when it airs on the History Channel.

"This is something that's going to be put out to millions of people," he told The Post. "I wish the History Channel would just air 'Ancient Aliens.' It would be more credible."

TIGHAR has looked into those claims and tried to debunk them.

But Gillespie believes "the overwhelming weight of the evidence" paints a narrative of what happened after Earhart and Noonan got lost halfway between Hawaii and Australia.

After her crash-landing, TIGHAR believes, Earhart used the radio from her damaged plane to call for help for nearly a week before the tide pulled the craft into the sea.

"Earhart made a relatively safe landing at Gardner Island and sent radio distress calls for six days," Gillespie said in a presentation posted on YouTube last year. "There are 47 messages heard by professional radio operators that appear to be credible."

Three years later, British officials discovered the skeleton on the island and wondered whether it might belong to the famed aviator. Officials shipped the 13 bones to a medical school in Fiji, where they were examined by D.W. Hoodless, a physician.

He concluded that the bones belonged to a short, stocky European man.

But Gillespie's group thinks Hoodless was wrong. After running the bones through a more robust anthropological database in 1998, they determined that the bones could have belonged to a taller-than-average woman of European descent - someone like Earhart.

Over the past three decades, members of TIGHAR have made a dozen expeditions to the island trying to prove their theory.

They've collected piles of evidence showing that a Westerner was possibly marooned on the island in the 1930s: improvised tools, remains of a shoe, aircraft wreckage, bits of makeup. They analyzed remains of food found in a fire and went to extreme lengths to determine what may have become of Earhart's body.

Earhart has been Gillespie's passion for three decades, and he concedes there's an internal tug of war between the scientist who wants objective evidence and the person who thinks he knows the answer.

"When I'm totally scientific, I say all of the available evidence points to this conclusion," he said. "But after a while, you look at a stack of supposed coincidences a mile high and it's clear ... I don't think I'm different from any scientist that's working on a case like this. You maintain your objectivity, but it's hard not to get excited."

Researchers think they know where Amelia Earhart died | World | News | Toronto S

 

[TenPenny]

Looks to me like a woman on a dock, surrounded by fishermen or mariners of Polynesian extraction. Maybe waiting for a boat, and possibly of the same extraction as the others.

The stretch to believe it's Earhart is ridiculous; there's no way you can make that connection. It's some woman with short hair.

 

[spaminator]

Blogger takes aim at photo suggesting Amelia Earhart survived round-the-flight
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 03:13 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 05:01 PM EDT
OK, so maybe Amelia Earhart didn't survive her 1937 flight, after all.
A Japanese military history buff has apparently undermined a new theory that Earhart survived a crash landing in the Pacific Ocean during her historic attempted round-the-world flight.
The history blogger, who goes by @baron_yamaneko on Twitter, posted the same photograph that formed the backbone of a History channel documentary that aired Sunday. Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence argued that the aviator was alive in July 1937 but the Japanese book where the same photo appears was apparently published two years before Earhart disappeared.
The History channel said in a statement Tuesday that its investigators are “exploring the latest developments.”
This undated photo discovered in the U.S. National Archives by Les Kinney shows people on a dock in Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. A History Channel documentary proposes that this image shows aviator Amelia Earhart, seated third from right, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge. (Office of Naval Intelligence/U.S. National Archives via AP)

Blogger takes aim at photo suggesting Amelia Earhart survived round-the-flight |

 

[Murphy]

But a few questions remain. Where did Earhart and her navigator end up? What happened when the plane crashed? How long did they survive?

If those questions can be answered definitively, the process of solving the mystery will be a good a story as finding out how and where they died.

 

[gopher]

photo debunked:


https://www.google.com/search?q=ame...rome..69i57.7737j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Danbones]

good catch Gopher

Yeah, I felt the execution part just didn't make sense... a couple years before pearl harbour?
Well, that would kill the surprise.

 

[gopher]

good catch Gopher

Yeah, I felt the execution part just didn't make sense... a couple years before pearl harbour?
Well, that would kill the surprise.

I had my suspicions from the very beginning as it was initially said that the photo was from 1943 - how could six years go by and her hair length remain the same? Made no sense at all.

 

[Danbones]

Researchers think they know where Amelia Earhart died
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
First posted: Sunday, July 09, 2017 09:17 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 09, 2017 09:29 PM EDT

Despite recent claims to the contrary, there's no doubt in Ric Gillespie's mind that Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after her plane crashed on a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean in July 1937.

and the mystery continues

 

[Danbones]

Rense Finds The Earhart Electra At A
Different Location In Now Famous Photo

his is a stunning discovery. Everyone seems to have been looking in the wrong direction. The 'plane' to the far right on the barge being towed behind a tramp steamer, if it indeed is a plane, clearly has a SINGLE tail…not the TWIN tail of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's Lockheed Electra. I received a tip from my colleague, the brilliant Yoichi Shimatsu, to look for the Electra elsewhere. I looked and found what is far, FAR more likely to be the Earhart Lockheed Electra…

And here is a final concept composite of a Lockheed Electra on the front deck of the
Japanese freighter. We have erased a section of the sailboat mast to enable easier viewing.

In summary, we feel the plane on the barge, if it is a plane, is not the Electra.
Further, because of the mast of the sailboat in the extreme foreground, no one
noticed the Electra sitting on the front deck of the ship…until Yoichi Shimatsu told
me where to look.

We suspect both steamers are Japanese or were appropriated by the Japanese military
for the recovery operation.

It also seems possible that Amelia and Fred, in this photo, have not yet been placed under
direct armed guard by the Japanese military. They may have been living amongst the islanders
for several months by this time. There were, no doubt, Japanese soldiers on Jaluit Atoll but Amelia
and Fred had nowhere to run and they were probably left reasonably free while the Japanese
hight command recovered the Electra and tried to figure out how to handle the situation.

There is little question that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were abandoned to their
eventual deaths by the communist, zionist, betrayer FDR...for whom they likely agreed to risk
their lives as American patriots to fly over the Marshalls 'by mistake' to take photos of Japanese
construction activity for the US military which knew very well that war with Japan was coming
... 3 1/2 years before FDR betrayed America at Pearl Harbor.

My thanks to my webmaster, James Neff, for doing such a great job bringing my
vision to life. His work couldn't be better and we hope you clearly see what that sailboat
mast was obscuring. My collective thanks, once again, to my friend and colleague,
the incredible Yoichi Shimatsu, without question, one of the world's great journalists,
most gifted political analysts, a master historian and brilliant environmental writer.

There is zero doubt that both the US intel community and the Japanese government
know precisely what happened to Amelia and Fred. We suspect there were other photos
taken but they have been long removed by ONI, etc. The needless loss of Amelia Earhart
and Fred Noonan hit America about that same as if Apollo 11 would have vanished
after successfully landing on the moon. Make no mistake, FDR could have saved
both of them and brought them home. He sacrificed them on the alter of zionist bankster
world politics and followed that up with high treason at Pearl Harbor 3 and 1/2 years later.
Rense Finds The Earhart Electra At A Different Location In Now Famous Photo

'I know what I saw and I saw the lady!' Revealed, the Pacific islanders who insist Amelia Earhart WAS taken prisoner by the Japanese after crashing on remote atoll
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan have not been heard of since July 1937 when they took off from New Guinea on 30th leg of round the world flight
Some claim they crashed into the sea near their intended destination - but residents of the Marshall Islands say the plane came down on Mili atoll
Descendants recall stories of an American lady 'with short hair' and a man
Doctor claimed he treated duo on a Japanese ship before they left the area
Amelia Earhart WAS taken prisoner by Japanese say Pacific islanders | Daily Mail Online

Crash landing? Marshall Islanders claim their plane came down here, the Mili atoll, before Earhart and Noonan were captured by the Japanese and taken to Saipan and thrown in prison

 

[Curious Cdn]

Yeah.

F.D.R.

What a libtard snowflake. The Japanese would have capitulated RIGHT AWAY if He had stood up to them over Emila Earhart.

 

[Danbones]

It's pretty well known that the US by doing things like cutting off japanese oil, kind of forced the Japs into the war...that's why all the real battleships were at sea during pearl harbor, and that is now considered to have been a false flag type operation.

Oil led to Pearl Harbor
Japan's thirst for the fossil fuel pushed it towards the day that lives in infamy

With breathtaking confidence in his own judgment, and ignoring the objections of others in the State Department, Acheson refused to grant licenses to Japan to pay for goods in dollars. That effectively ended Japan’s ability to ship oil and all other goods from the United States.

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/oil_led_to_pearl_harbor/

 

[Curious Cdn]

It's pretty well known that the US by doing things like cutting off japanese oil, kind of forced the Japs into the war...that's why all the real battleships were at sea during pearl harbor, and that is now considered to have been a false flag type operation.

Oil led to Pearl Harbor
Japan's thirst for the fossil fuel pushed it towards the day that lives in infamy
Oil led to Pearl Harbor - Salon.com

He shoudda nuked them when he had the chance.

 

[Danbones]

I guess you missed the unnecessary show after the end of the war....TV down?
The real WMDS in action

 

[Curious Cdn]

I guess you missed the unnecessary show after the end of the war....TV down?
The real WMDS in action

Nah. I was watching Netflicks.