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Earhart Search 75 Symposium
Help us plan the Symposium by taking a short survey on line.
Next year, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Earhart disappearance, TIGHAR plans to hold a major public symposium to review the progress made in three-quarters of a century of research and investigation into the fate of America’s favorite missing person. The results of this survey will help us design a symposium that will best serve the needs of the interested public. Click on “Start Survey” below to get started!
The Earhart Project is testing the hypothesis that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed, and eventually died, on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati. Now in its 23rd year, a major underwater search is planned for July 2012, the 75th anniversary of the flight.
By popular demand, the time has come for Ric to begin writing the second book in the Finding Amelia trilogy. The first volume, Finding Amelia – The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance, was published by the Naval Institute Press in 2006 and tells the story of Earhart’s world flight, her disappearance, and the massive U.S. Government search that failed to find her. Volume Two will begin where the first book left off – with the 1940 discovery of the remains of a female castaway on Gardner Island – and continue as a chronological narrative of how the various theories about Earhart’s fate evolved and what TIGHAR has found in nearly a quarter century of research.
To learn more and reserve your copy please visit The TIGHAR Literary Guild II.
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In the summer of 2007, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft, presumed to be USAAF serial number 41-7677, emerged from the sand of a beach in Wales where it crash landed in 1942. The aircraft, largely intact and remarkably free of corrosion, is one of the most significant WWII-related archaeological discoveries in recent history. MORE