A grainy 80-year old photograph of a woman's back seems hardly compelling. The other pieces of evidence they cite seem equally unconvincing. Maybe I've turned cynical given the current mainstream media circus, but this appears to be more of an advertising piece for the mentioned History channel special. It is glossed over in the article, but I'd be more interested in learning about who took the picture, and why he/she did not report seeing Earhart.
it seems crazy and impossible. But it reminds me that the Japanese built the two largest battleships ever created, by far, and sailed them for years until sunk at the end of the war, and for decades there were no known pictures of them except those taken during their sinkings by US aitmen.<p>They were pretty good at keeping secrets under wraps.
Shouldn't information from the US government be available now? Not only the picture, bur more information regarding date/time/place/who took it.<p>Her disappearing was a great happening, and it'll be interesting if this photo/hypothesis is correct.
Since the Japanese authorities say that they have no records of her being in custody and she presumably knowing that she would be a person of interest, might she have been inclined to give a false name?
I'm pretty sure researchers have already found the little island next to which she landed. It appears that she and Fred Noonan died as castaways on the island of Nikumaroro. Bones were found on the island several years later, but have since been lost to history. One researcher even found a piece of aluminum on the island that they believe was used to patch a broken window on her plane.
"I think it leaves no doubt to the viewers that that's Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan,' Henry told NBC News."<p>Really? Because the only thing I see no doubt of is someone who has reached a conclusion based upon scant evidence, attempting to prime an audience to accept that same conclusion as fact without independent thought or verification.
I am hoping AI can answer these questions more definitely than people second guessing. In general, legends tend to live longer than they may have made out to look.