The U.S. National Archives has published a batch of newly declassified government records on Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who vanished over the Pacific in 1937, officials said. Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan, and her disappearance is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore. President…
An expedition to try to locate Amelia Earhart’s plane on a remote island in the Pacific has been delayed until next year, Purdue University said Monday. A team of researchers was planning to travel to Nikumaroro Island in early November to determine whether something known as the Taraia Object — a visual anomaly seen in…
Researchers from Purdue University are set to travel to the South Pacific to determine if a “visual anomaly” on a remote island is the wreck of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane, saying there is “very strong” evidence the object is the iconic aviator’s aircraft. Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to circle the…
President Trump told his administration on Friday to declassify any federal records about Amelia Earhart, the pilot whose 1937 disappearance over the Pacific Ocean has drawn decades of public fascination. “Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again,” the president wrote on…
There’s more positive news about a prominent bronze statue that was stolen in Harbour Grace last spring, cut into pieces, and recovered last month. Sculptor Morgan MacDonald is promising to restore the butchered Amelia Earhart statue and return her to her bronze glory by the fall. “It’s nothing outside the realm of things that I’m…
An expedition to a remote and tiny island this fall will attempt to locate Amelia Earhart’s plane in the Pacific Ocean. The effort, announced Wednesday by the Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute, will focus on a “visual anomaly” in satellite and other imagery in a lagoon at Nikumaroro, an island located between Hawaii…