The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 I remember doing a project on this in 3rd grade, and since it still an unsolved mystery, I figured I'd ask our resident historians here on ES what they think happened. One theory from Wikipedia: In 1966, CBS Correspondent Fred Goerner published a book claiming Earhart and Noonan were captured and executed when their aircraft crashed on Saipan Island, part of the Northern Marianas archipelago while it was under Japanese occupation. In 2009, an Earhart relative stated that the pair died in Japanese custody, citing unnamed witnesses including Japanese troops and Saipan natives. He said that the Japanese cut the valuable Lockheed aircraft into scrap and threw the pieces into the ocean.Thomas E. Devine (who served in a postal Army unit) wrote Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident which includes a letter from the daughter of a Japanese police official who claimed her father was responsible for Earhart's execution. Former U.S. Marine Robert Wallack claimed he and other soldiers opened a safe on Saipan and found Earhart's briefcase. Former U.S. Marine Earskin J. Nabers claimed that while serving as a wireless operator on Saipan in 1944, he decoded a message from naval officials which said Earhart's aircraft had been found at Aslito AirField, that he was later ordered to guard the aircraft and then witnessed its destruction. In 1990, the NBC-TV series Unsolved Mysteries broadcast an interview with a Saipanese woman who claimed to have witnessed Earhart and Noonan's execution by Japanese soldiers. No independent confirmation or support has ever emerged for any of these claims. Purported photographs of Earhart during her captivity have been identified as either fraudulent or having been taken before her final flight. Since the end of World War II, a location on Tinian, which is five miles (eight km) southwest of Saipan, had been rumoured to be the grave of the two aviators. In 2004 a scientifically supported archaeological dig at the site failed to turn up any bones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 She crashed into the ocean and that was that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanCollins Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 She crashed into the ocean and that was that. so why did I remember hearing that her plane did not making it to Africa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 She crashed into the ocean and that was that. Well thats no fun...wheres her body/aircraft then? :pfft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Well thats no fun...wheres her body/aircraft then? :pfft: At the bottom of the ocean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Do Itch Big Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Unknown at the time, Earhart, Noonan and six other Humans were abducted by an alien race known as the Briori and transported to the Delta Quadrant. They would be placed in a stasis chamber, and over a period of four centuries, become known to the planet's inhabitants – Humans descended from other abductees, who had overthrown their Briori captors – as "the 37's". In 2371, after tracing an SOS call to her still-intact plane (preserved by a Briori power source), the crew of the USS Voyager discovered Earhart, Noonan and the six other 20th century Humans still in cryostasis in caves on an Earth-like planet in the Delta Quadrant. After being woken up, Earhart, along with Noonan and the others, declined Captain Janeway's offer to remain on board and decided to stay on the planet with the thriving Earth-like civilization that their fellow Humans had established there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsburySkinsFan Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 She crashed into the ocean and that was that. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Unknown at the time, Earhart, Noonan and six other Humans were abducted by an alien race known as the Briori and transported to the Delta Quadrant. They would be placed in a stasis chamber, and over a period of four centuries, become known to the planet's inhabitants – Humans descended from other abductees, who had overthrown their Briori captors – as "the 37's".In 2371, after tracing an SOS call to her still-intact plane (preserved by a Briori power source), the crew of the USS Voyager discovered Earhart, Noonan and the six other 20th century Humans still in cryostasis in caves on an Earth-like planet in the Delta Quadrant. After being woken up, Earhart, along with Noonan and the others, declined Captain Janeway's offer to remain on board and decided to stay on the planet with the thriving Earth-like civilization that their fellow Humans had established there This was my second choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Do Itch Big Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 This was my second choice. its really the only logical solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 At the bottom of the ocean Where? What ocean? :pfft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchgear Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Whatever happened to Emelia Earhart Who holds the stars up in the sky Is true love once in a lifetime Did the captain of the titanic cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veretax Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 No no Earhardt and all on board her craft were mysteriously shifted due to a rift in the space time continuum and arrived over Cardiff England sometime in the late 2007 I think it was. (Kudos to anyone who gets the reference) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markmx Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 At the bottom of the ocean QFT Will the next thread be about the Lindbergh baby? :evilg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Whatever happened to Emelia Earhart? She died. Who holds the stars up in the sky? Zues. Is true love once in a lifetime? No. Did the captain of the titanic cry? Yes, but only cause he had something in his eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 QFT Will the next thread be about the Lindbergh baby? :evilg: Well, they're actually related incidents. At least if you believe in reincarnation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuckinIA Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Female drivers:doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljs Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Female drivers:doh: :ols: best answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Female drivers:doh: This wins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Female drivers:doh: Beat me to it. LOL. She was sending the first ever text message, while putting on makeup, and BAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 It is my understanding that she once almost gave head to Al Czervik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaRonDontLikeUgly Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 did anyone read this thread, google "amelia earhart nude," then end up really disappointed at the results? good, glad i'm not the only one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 IT WAS A TRAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 US joins search for Amelia Earhart remains after new photo analysis WASHINGTON -- Following new analysis of a photo that could show wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it was backing a search this summer to hopefully solve the mystery of America's greatest female aviator. "We can be as optimistic and even audacious as Amelia Earhart," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to announce U.S. support for the expedition. "There is great honor and possibility in the search itself." The search by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery will focus on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati. The group believes Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan might have managed to land on the island, then known as Gardner Island, and that they could have survived for a short time after disappearing on July 2, 1937. Other historians believe they crashed into the ocean. But conspiracy theories, including claims that they were U.S. government agents captured by the Japanese before World War II, abound despite having been largely debunked. Well it's blatantly obvious, I don't know why they didn't see it before. New analysis of a photo taken at Nikumaroro three months after the disappearance shows what some people believe could be a strut and wheel of the plane protruding from the water, the group says. State Department analysts helped examine the photo. The hypothesis is that the plane crashed on a reef before eventually being washed deeper into the sea. Click on the link for the full article and video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 That's the photo? Are they talking about that little thing on the left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I have a feeling this is another Geraldo Rivera "Uncovering Al Capone's Vault" special waiting to happen. I hope not though. It would be a badass find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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