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Papua New Guinea

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	[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/60_TooTrue/60_TooTrue.htm Earhart Project Research Bulletin "Too True to Believe" dated March 9, 2011]		[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/60_TooTrue/60_TooTrue.htm Earhart Project Research Bulletin "Too True to Believe" dated March 9, 2011]

			=== Marshall Islands ===

			==== Mili Atoll ====

			; [http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,1602.msg36876.html#msg36876 Leslie G. Kinney, Forum, 30 May 2015]

			: With that said, I am a firm believer Earhart went down in the Marshalls and met her fate on Saipan. During the course of my research I have uncovered “one” document written by a U.S. military department branch that would stand up to court scrutiny. This document indicates our military had evidence Earhart had been in the custody of the Japanese in the Marshalls. Only one document, that’s it! However, I have found many documents that would lead one to believe Earhart landed in the Marshalls.

			: There were three eyewitnesses to the Earhart landing at Mili Atoll which Ric categorizes as “folklore.”

			; Excerpt from letter [[Fred Goerner]] wrote to TIGHAR member Rob Gerth on April 13, 1989:

			: "I truly believed the north of course theory was the most probable at the time I wrote THE SEARCH FOR AE in 1966, and I chose Mili as the most logical landing place. Through the assistance of Dr. Dirk Ballendorf, who was Deputy Director for our U.S. Peace Corps activities in the Pacific, I was able to disabuse myself of that conjecture by 1969. Dr. Ballendorf assigned a fine young American named Eric Sussman to assist me with the people of Mili Atoll. Mr. Sussman spent nearly two years in Mili as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and he interviewed every Marshallese there who was old enough to remember anything about the pre-WWII years, especially 1937. A story existed about a woman pilot being picked up somewhere in or about the Marshalls in 1937, but Mr. Sussman satisfied himself and consequently satisfied me that Mili HAD NOT BEEN the landing place of the Earhart plane. It is more than a little surprising that Vincent Loomis, Oliver Knaggs, Buddy Brennan, Paul Bryce, Jim Slade and all the other people who visited Mili in the late 1970's and early 1980's and made such extravagant, unsupportable claims, did not even attempt to contact me before they made their "expeditions". It is almost as if they did not want to hear ANYTHING which might not support their conclusions and what they were trying to promulgate to their investors. What was amusing but not surprising was that they were calling each other names and threatening lawsuits against one another within months after their returns to The States."

	== Star Trekked ==		== Star Trekked ==

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Died on Saipan

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	T.C. "Buddy" Brennan wrote ''Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart'' (Renaissance House, 1988) was based on the recollections of an elderly lady on Saipan who claimed to have seen the woman flyer and the man flyer with a bandaged, injured head, and limping being brought to Saipan for imprisonment by the Japanese.		T.C. "Buddy" Brennan wrote ''Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart'' (Renaissance House, 1988) was based on the recollections of an elderly lady on Saipan who claimed to have seen the woman flyer and the man flyer with a bandaged, injured head, and limping being brought to Saipan for imprisonment by the Japanese.

			Mike Campbell published ''With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart'' (Ohio: Lucky Press, 2002) and ''Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last'' (Camp Hill, PA: Sunbury Press, 2012).

	There are many other variations of the Saipan theory.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS300US300&q=earhart+saipan&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= Google Earhart + Saipan.]</ref>		There are many other variations of the Saipan theory.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS300US300&q=earhart+saipan&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= Google Earhart + Saipan.]</ref>

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Spying links

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	==== Spying links ====		==== Spying links ====
	; Gary LaPook		:; Gary LaPook<nowiki>:</nowiki>

	:* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/flight-planning-aspects-relating-to-a-possible-earhart-s-spy-flight "Flight Planning Aspects Relating to a Possible Earhart Spy Flight."]		::* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/flight-planning-aspects-relating-to-a-possible-earhart-s-spy-flight "Flight Planning Aspects Relating to a Possible Earhart Spy Flight."]
	:* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/was-earhart-a-spy "Was Earhart a Spy?"]		::* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/was-earhart-a-spy "Was Earhart a Spy?"]

	=== Survivability after ditching ===		=== Survivability after ditching ===

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After spying

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	Most of the "Captured by the Japanese" scenarios below are variants of this theory, although some may suppose that the Japanese captured [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] by accident and merely held them as prisoners of war on suspicion of spying.		Most of the "Captured by the Japanese" scenarios below are variants of this theory, although some may suppose that the Japanese captured [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] by accident and merely held them as prisoners of war on suspicion of spying.

			==== Spying links ====
			; Gary LaPook

			:* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/flight-planning-aspects-relating-to-a-possible-earhart-s-spy-flight "Flight Planning Aspects Relating to a Possible Earhart Spy Flight."]
			:* [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/was-earhart-a-spy "Was Earhart a Spy?"]

	=== Survivability after ditching ===		=== Survivability after ditching ===

Moleski: /* Near Howland Island */

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Near Howland Island

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	[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]]		[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]]

	Gary LaPook criticizes the [[Niku Hypothesis]] on [~~https~~://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/home his website.] He believes that [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] would have searched in the vicinity of Howland until they ran out of gas.		Gary LaPook criticizes the [[Niku Hypothesis]] on [http://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/home his website.] He believes that [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] would have searched in the vicinity of Howland until they ran out of gas.

	=== After spying ===		=== After spying ===

Moleski: /* Near Howland Island */

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Near Howland Island

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	[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]]		[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]]

			Gary LaPook criticizes the [[Niku Hypothesis]] on [https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/home his website.] He believes that [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] would have searched in the vicinity of Howland until they ran out of gas.

	=== After spying ===		=== After spying ===

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Died on any number of Pacific Islands

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	If ''one'' of the "caught spying" stories is true, then all of the rest have to be cases of mistaken identity. It is inconceivable that all of the legends about [[Earhart]] suffering at the hands of the Japanese can be true--there are too many of them from too many sources for one person to have been the same victim in all of them.		If ''one'' of the "caught spying" stories is true, then all of the rest have to be cases of mistaken identity. It is inconceivable that all of the legends about [[Earhart]] suffering at the hands of the Japanese can be true--there are too many of them from too many sources for one person to have been the same victim in all of them.

			=== Executed by Order of the Emperor ===
			;Henri Keyzer-Andre with Hy Steirman, ''Age Of Heroes'' (Mamoroneck, NY: Hastings House, 1993).

			:Keyzer-Andre has figured out that Earhart and Noonan were captured and executed at the express instruction of the Japanese Emperor so that the Electra’s advanced technology could be copied for use in the Zero. Why Hirohito should have gone to all that trouble is a bit puzzling given that the Imperial Japanese Navy had purchased an Electra from Lockheed the year before (sales of American aircraft to Japan continued unrestricted until 1939).<ref>[[Ric Gillespie]], "Incredible Adventures" [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1993Vol_9/0902.pdf (''TIGHAR Tracks'' 1993:9).]</ref>

	=== Survived and came home ===		=== Survived and came home ===

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Came home and hid in New Jersey

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	The unsigned [[Love to Mother]] letter fueled many theories about [[Earhart]] surviving captivity and returning to the United States in secret. Ron Bright has uncovered the full story of this enigmatic note.<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/FAQs/ltm.htm "Love to Mother."]</ref>		The unsigned [[Love to Mother]] letter fueled many theories about [[Earhart]] surviving captivity and returning to the United States in secret. Ron Bright has uncovered the full story of this enigmatic note.<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/FAQs/ltm.htm "Love to Mother."]</ref>

	== Came home and hid in New Jersey ==		==== Came home and hid in New Jersey ====
	Colonel Rollin Reineck, USAF (ret.), thought he saw [[Earhart]] at a party, disguised as Irene Bolam. He developed this theory at length in ''Amelia Earhart Survived'' (The Paragon Agency Publishers, 2003). [[TIGHAR]] judges that there are many serious defects in his case, not the least among them the fact that Mrs. Bolam strenuously denied the allegation and won a judgment against Reineck in court.<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Books/BookReviews/earhartsurvive.html "Is This Amelia Earhart?"]</ref>		Colonel Rollin Reineck, USAF (ret.), thought he saw [[Earhart]] at a party, disguised as Irene Bolam. He developed this theory at length in ''Amelia Earhart Survived'' (The Paragon Agency Publishers, 2003). [[TIGHAR]] judges that there are many serious defects in his case, not the least among them the fact that Mrs. Bolam strenuously denied the allegation and won a judgment against Reineck in court.<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Books/BookReviews/earhartsurvive.html "Is This Amelia Earhart?"]</ref>

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Near Howland Island

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	[[Elgen Long]] assumes that [[Earhart]] ran out of gas very shortly after the [[last transmission]], relatively near to [[Howland Island]].		[[Elgen Long]] assumes that [[Earhart]] ran out of gas very shortly after the [[last transmission]], relatively near to [[Howland Island]].

	[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]		[[Nauticos]] has made at least two deep-sea searches within the zone that [[Long]] calculates to be the most like region to find the downed [[Electra\|aircraft.]]

	=== After spying ===		=== After spying ===

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Survivability after ditching

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	=== Survivability after ditching ===		=== Survivability after ditching ===
	;National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR), [http://www.niar.wichita.edu/CompMechPortal/MainMenuCurrentResearchProjects/AmeliaEarhartsCrashReconstruction/tabid/94/Default.aspx "Amelia Earhart's Crash Reconstruction."]		;National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR), [http://www.niar.wichita.edu/CompMechPortal/MainMenuCurrentResearchProjects/AmeliaEarhartsCrashReconstruction/tabid/94/Default.aspx "Amelia Earhart's Crash Reconstruction."]

			:"According to the Biomechanical data obtained in the analysis, she would have had not suffer any incapacitating injury to the head, neck, and thorax area. Note that the simulation results can not establish the injury risk for the upper and lower extremities. Due to the airplane configuration the only path to the Life raft would be through the Pilot Escape Hatch and accessing the aircraft through one of the side doors. ...

	:"Based on the analysis results the ditching event should be classified as a survivable accident. A survivable accident is where sufficient cabin structure and seats remain to aid survival of one or more occupants, and where further loss of life is the consequence of drowning, or other post- crash incidents.		:"Based on the analysis results the ditching event should be classified as a survivable accident. A survivable accident is where sufficient cabin structure and seats remain to aid survival of one or more occupants, and where further loss of life is the consequence of drowning, or other post- crash incidents.