Everybody, please look at the pictures of Amelia Earhart's Electra cockpit posted today; maybe you will sleep better tonight knowing that she did, actually, land on Gardner Island, whatever the height of the tide.
Tim -
Even if we all believed in the structures-on-the-moon, the face-in-mars and Sasquatch, Gary has clearly shown that we should not believe that Earhart ever got to Gardner Island.
It is important to note that there are those who will attempt to rebuke Gary's science yet no mention of the exceptionally weak opinions of seeing airplane debris in what is obviously natural structure is forthcoming in these pages.
Others have, very tactfully - some not so tactfully, attempted to point out that the stuff in the video(s) is nothing but natural coral or stone formations. Even Ric has posted pics of a Devastator that has not turned to coral within the last 75 years - it's still recognizable as an airplane.
And Ric's expert photo scientist could not have possibly missed an entire Electra cockpit. Or wing. For Pete's sake - he wouldn't have missed a small guage. Mr. Glickman wants, very badly for the Electra to be there. He wants to be part of the proof that the hypothesis is correct. If he could determine that the Bevington Object is the undercarriage of an Electra, don't you think he'd also see her cockpit and be delighted to report it?
It's difficult, after over 20 years of unadulterated support and belief in a theory, to suddenly realize that the facts don't add up. The big question is: Where do we go from here? What can we do now?
Bill -
(1) I have not researched Gary's theory, but it is evident to me that Amelia Earhart did get to Gardner Island, because her airplane lies 800 feet underwater just off the reef, as (I repeat) pictures of the aircraft's cockpit prove.
(2)The Devastator did not fall down an 800 foot cliff, crashing against ledges on the way. It floated down 125 feet to a nice flat bottom. So while it may appear more airplane-like, that doesn't mean that the Electra components can't be identified as airplane parts.
(3) As to Mr. Glickman's efforts, we don't know what he has recognized because he hastn't opined yet. The video portion with the cockpit (frame 21 at time 13:41:03) was part of the extra footage provided by Ric only a week or so ago. I don't know if Jeff Glickman, allegedly a very busy professional, has even had time to look at this extra video. Mr. Glickman, furthermore, is not acting as an "expert witness" but is a member of TIGHAR volunteering his time, as Ric has pointed out. Neither you nor I can know what motivates Jeff Glickman, but I would like to believe that he is a man of skill and integrity.
(4) As to the "Bevington Object": I think the point now is that the finding of the airplane itself does more to show (if not prove) that the Bevington Object, identified only months ago as relevant, was probably part of the Electra than that the Bevington Object proves that the Electra landed on the reef.
(5) Coral is coral, and from my experience looking at it hour after hour in July, it does not often resemble airplane components or pieces of sheared and torn aluminum.
(6) So, if the facts don't add up for you, I respectfully suggest that you gather further facts; and if the theory doesn't pan out, that doesn't mean that people wasted their time trying to prove it.