| Quote: | The popular and widely accepted myth that the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in the Central Pacific during their ill-fated world flight attempt in July 1937 remains among the 20th century’s greatest mysteries is false, the result of a decades-long U.S. government disinformation program that continues to this day. My second book on the Earhart matter, Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, presents many stunning new findings, eyewitness accounts and analysis, and never-before-published revelations from unimpeachable sources including famed U.S. military generals and iconic San Francisco newsman Fred Goerner’s files that reveal the truth about Amelia Earhart's death on Saipan, as well as the sacred-cow status of this matter within the U.S. government. Truth at Last explodes the popular myths that Amelia Earhart’s Electra, NR 16020 crashed and sank in the waters off Howland Island on July 2, 1937, or landed on the reef of Nikumaroro Island, where the supposedly hapless fliers perished soon thereafter of thirst and/or starvation. Unlike many Earhart treatments, Truth at Last is a serious book, thoroughly researched and documented to stand up to the scrutiny, skepticism and even contempt it will surely attract. In 1991, having studied the work of Thomas E. Devine, the late author of Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident (Renaissance House, 1988), Goerner, Paul Briand Jr., Vincent V. Loomis and others, I visited Devine at his West Haven, Connecticut home. When I left, I was certain that Earhart and Noonan had died in Japanese captivity on Saipan, and that the U.S. government is still determined to deny that fact. After fourteen years of correspondence and collaboration with Devine, other Saipan veterans and experts from the innermost circles of Earhart research, With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart was published in 2002 by a small Ohio company, Lucky Press, as some of you know. Though poorly marketed, With Our Own Eyes was well received by many within the Earhart research community. Four years after its publication, armed with many new findings and insights, I began writing Truth at Last, which makes a far more compelling case for the famed aviatrix’s presence and death on Saipan -- a fact that flies directly in the face of accepted establishment doctrine. Because the truth about the fliers' deaths on Saipan is anathema to our government's longstanding political agenda, the establishment will not be forced to recognize this book's existence without the support of people like you, Americans who are sick of being deceived by this government at every turn, and who are unafraid to demand the truth. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan deserve much better than to have their fates relegated to the dustbin of alleged historical "mysteries," never to see the light of day. Truth at Last might well be their last best chance for historical vindication. As we approach the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's last flight -- and the government-controlled media's disinformation and misdirection that will certainly accompany it -- I respectfully ask for your kind support of Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last. The cause is just and the time is getting very late. Truth at Last is available at www.Amazon.com and www.SunburyPress.com, or through your favorite bookstore upon request. Please forward this letter to anyone who might be interested, and thanks for your time and consideration. Media members interested in reviewing the book should contact Sunbury Press at publicity@sunburypress.com. A website, www.earharttruth.com (http://www.earharttruth.com/), will be up soon with more informtion about the book and the Earhart case. I look forward to your comments. Sincerely, Mike Campbell Knoxville, Tenn. |
WOW! Mystery solved. I guess we might as well cancel the trip to NIKU next month.
Not another conspiracy theory! Kennedy, 9/11, global warming and so on.
Whatever happened to Occam's razor ?
Very good points, Malcolm - I thoroughly agree.Take a look at the navigation of supposed spy flight scenarios here (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/flight-planning-aspects-relating-to-a-possible-earhart-s-spy-flight) and here. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/was-earhart-a-spy)
Had the pair somehow blundered into the Japanese in the 'wrong' place (I think highly unlikely) they might have been in trouble somehow out of paranoia, but it's an incredibly long-shot at best as I can understand the whole picture. They had no reason to be in such areas. Adventurers is a good description - spies is nonsense I believe, and I believe you gave very good reasons for that.
LTM -
Take a look at the navigation of supposed spy flight scenarios here (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/flight-planning-aspects-relating-to-a-possible-earhart-s-spy-flight) and here. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/was-earhart-a-spy)
Well I hoped that it would be understandable to non navigators, you were my test case ;). At the risk of revealing a long concealed navigator's secret to the uninitiated, "it ain't rocket science," mainly just common sense with some technicalities thrown in just to keep it interesting
Superb work, Gary! I love this line in the first article: "The Japanese also understood navigation. It would be very difficult to convince them of a legitimate need to search near Truk, 1880 miles from the outer limits of her likely position or even to search near Mili, fully 530 miles away."
That's the best Forum laugh I've had in weeks! :)
Unfortunately, you have labored in vain, since by the use Malcolm's Razor, we find that the Staged Disappearance Hypothesis is absolutely equivalent to Crashed-and-Sank and the Niku Hypothesis, since all three are equally unproven. ::)
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I don't know the name of it but, like Murphy's law, I know it is universal. "The simplest solution is probably correct, the most complicated is most assuredly not." Someone else may know who to attribute that to.
Hey Gary---hope all it well. During the final flight, AE was 'reported' to have past over a ship near Nauru, and island in the Gilberts (that I cant quite remember the name or spell !) on her way to Howland. I was thinking that after passing through the Gilbert chain, she encountered the thunderstorm ('cloudy-weather cloudy"). At that point as I plot it, she was basically on course. I surmised that FN directed her to turn south, around the storm for X period of time, fly east for Y period of time to parallel the storm, and Z turn back North after clearing the storm to return to the base course for Howland.Either the Ontario or Myrtlebank.
Now, forgetting for a few minutes about the post loss radio signals that 'supposedly' put her in the Phoenix Group, what "IF" FN had her turn North instead of south when they encountered the storm and flew that course. If they never turned back to the east, it might be possible to encounter the Marshalls with fuel on board.
I havent really thought about this alot, and it shows. But see if that make any sense to you.
Tom
There was a report that someone reported the plane passing over Tabituea and the south end of the Gilberts directly on course to Howland. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/resources/trial/gnc-20-8.JPG?attredirects=0) (BTW, it is always "someone reported the plane", there is never any detail, who reported it? when was it reported? to whom was it reported? how was it reported?)
There was a report that someone reported the plane passing over Tabituea and the south end of the Gilberts directly on course to Howland. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/resources/trial/gnc-20-8.JPG?attredirects=0) (BTW, it is always "someone reported the plane", there is never any detail, who reported it? when was it reported? to whom was it reported? how was it reported?)
From the wiki (http://tighar.org/wiki/Tabiteuea):
Ric Gillespie (http://tighar.org/wiki/Ric_Gillespie), Forum, 24 April 2011. (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,169.msg3577.html#msg3577)
In his letter to Bessie Young of June 4, 1940, Irving Johnson says only that a missionary on Beru told him that he had from a native that "...it was believed that the Earhart plane had flown eastward high up over the island of Taputeouea." The missionary cautioned that "it was hard to tell whether some ignorant native had actually seen an airplane or wished he had." Maybe a plane was heard or seen, maybe not, but to say that it was reported "in the same 1° 23´ latitude as Nikunau" is incorrect.
Tabiteuea is a long skinny atoll stretching from 1° 06 ' in the north to 1° 32' in the south. Johnson's third-hand account says nothing about where on the atoll the plane was supposedly heard or seen.
From the wiki (http://tighar.org/wiki/Tabiteuea):
Ric Gillespie (http://tighar.org/wiki/Ric_Gillespie), Forum, 24 April 2011. (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,169.msg3577.html#msg3577)
Tabiteuea is a long skinny atoll stretching from 1° 06 ' in the north to 1° 32' in the south. Johnson's third-hand account says nothing about where on the atoll the plane was supposedly heard or seen.
Where does this come from? There is no island in the Gilberts extending across the equator and an island of these coordinates would be 158 NM long. See this chart. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/resources/trial/gnc-20-8.JPG?attredirects=0)
O.K., that makes sense, give Ric a spanking for that one.
From the wiki (http://tighar.org/wiki/Tabiteuea):
Ric Gillespie (http://tighar.org/wiki/Ric_Gillespie), Forum, 24 April 2011. (http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,169.msg3577.html#msg3577)
Tabiteuea is a long skinny atoll stretching from 1° 06 ' in the north to 1° 32' in the south. Johnson's third-hand account says nothing about where on the atoll the plane was supposedly heard or seen.
Where does this come from? There is no island in the Gilberts extending across the equator and an island of these coordinates would be 158 NM long. See this chart. (https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/resources/trial/gnc-20-8.JPG?attredirects=0)
The source, as indicated is Ric Gillespie.
I think if you look at 1° 6'23.82"S and 1°32'24.22"S, you'll see that one is at the northern part of the island and the other at the southeastern end.
I don't think Ric meant 1° 6 N and 1° 32 S.
"Tabiteuea is a long skinny atoll stretching from [1° 6'23.82"S] in the north of the atoll to [1°32'24.22"S] at the southern end. Johnson's third-hand account says nothing about where on the atoll the plane was supposedly heard or seen."
See attached from Google Earth.
Tom King is trying to get a copy of the paper he wrote with Roberts and Cerniglia into the hands of William Duncan, who posted some questions about Truth at Last.
Tom thinks the paper answers some of the questions that Duncan asked.
The article is not yet available on the internet, but it is slated to be published Northern Marianas Islands Council for the Humanities (http://www.nmihumanities.org/) and/or the Guampedia. (http://guampedia.com/)
Please contact Tom directly (tfking106@aol.com) if you would like to request a pre-publication version of the paper.
King, Thomas F., Thomas A. Roberts, and Joseph Cerniglia
"Amelia Earhart in the Marianas: a Consideration of the Evidence." Paper submitted to the Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities’ Marianas History Conference, Saipan, June 14-16, 2012.
The link below does have a least a summary regarding referenced King paper. Or it could be the whole research paper? Hard to tell.
The King paper seems to be anything but supporting Campbell's theory on Saipan ...