Marquette, MI – July 6, 2017 – The world got to buzzing yesterday around news of possible ground-breaking new evidence in the case of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
A photo stumbled upon in the National Archives potentially shows Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock in the Marshall Islands, just south of Japan, in 1937. The photo is being documented in a new History Channel special titled “Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence” which airs Sunday night at 9p.m. You can find the full details of the picture in this NBC article.
As for me, I am still fairly skeptical. The photo is said by experts to be original and not doctored in anyway. But the photo itself, taken in 1937, isn’t exactly high-resolution. Earhart’s back is turned in the photo, and the most compelling case of evidence is of Noonan. Noonan is staring in the direction of the photographer, and looks similar to other photos of him, but he is still a good distance from the photographer.
Experts also claim one of the Japanese ships in the picture is towing and object 38-feet long, the same length as Earhart’s plane. But the picture doesn’t show the object the ship is towing in its entirety, so I am not sure how that conclusion was drawn.
While I am not completely convinced this proves Earhart survived and was taken prisoner by the Japanese, it is a fascinating find. The time frame matches up and one could be convinced it is Noonan and Earhart in the picture. You be the judge for yourself.
