Floyd Kilts' Stories about the Bones - Revision history

Thomas at 20:07, 12 July 2012

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	[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]		[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]
	Floyd C. Kilts (August ~~17,~~ 1891 - September ~~11,~~ 1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]		Floyd C. Kilts (17 August 1891 - 11 September 1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]

	It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]		It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]

Thomas: birth/death dates from VA gravesite locator

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birth/death dates from VA gravesite locator

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	[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]		[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]
	Floyd C. Kilts (1891-1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]		Floyd C. Kilts (August 17, 1891 - September 11, 1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]

	It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]		It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]

Thomas: correct TTracks URL

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	Floyd C. Kilts (1891-1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]		Floyd C. Kilts (1891-1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]

	It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]		It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]

	In 1961 KCBS reporter Fred Goerner picked up a shortened AP dispatch of Kilts’ story, and briefly mentioned it in his 1966 book, ''The Search for Amelia Earhart''. A 1989 letter from Goerner to TIGHAR member Rob Gerth, outlined Goerner’s later research on the story which explained it away as being partially true events with erroneous conclusions. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/1990Vol_6/0601.pdf]		In 1961 KCBS reporter Fred Goerner picked up a shortened AP dispatch of Kilts’ story, and briefly mentioned it in his 1966 book, ''The Search for Amelia Earhart''. A 1989 letter from Goerner to TIGHAR member Rob Gerth, outlined Goerner’s later research on the story which explained it away as being partially true events with erroneous conclusions. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1990Vol_6/0601.pdf]

	While researching the Kiribati National Archives in Tarawa in 1997, TIGHAR member Peter MacQuerie discovered a formerly secret file labeled “Discovery of Human Remains on Gardner Island” which contained 15 official telegrams and one letter regarding the discovery of a partial skeleton on Gardner Island in 1940—correspondence which corroborated the central theme of the anecdote which Floyd Kilts was told in 1946. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/13_1/tarawa.html]		While researching the Kiribati National Archives in Tarawa in 1997, TIGHAR member Peter MacQuerie discovered a formerly secret file labeled “Discovery of Human Remains on Gardner Island” which contained 15 official telegrams and one letter regarding the discovery of a partial skeleton on Gardner Island in 1940—correspondence which corroborated the central theme of the anecdote which Floyd Kilts was told in 1946. [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/13_1/tarawa.html]


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	==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==		==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]		*[http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/12_1/solomon.html “Solomon Islands Expedition December 1995”]		*[http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/12_1/solomon.html “Solomon Islands Expedition December 1995”]
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/12_2/yr5.html#2 “Paradise Lost”]		*[http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/12_2/yr5.html#2 “Paradise Lost”]
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1997Vol_13/1301.pdf “The Tarawa File”]		*[http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1997Vol_13/1301.pdf “The Tarawa File”]
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes?”]		*[http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes?”]

	[[Category:Artifacts\|Bones]]		[[Category:Artifacts\|Bones]]

Moleski at 03:42, 12 June 2010

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	* [[Bones found on Nikumaroro]].		* [[Bones found on Nikumaroro]].

	~~[[Category:Artifacts]]~~
	~~[[Category:Nikumaroro]]~~
	~~[[Category:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts\|K]]~~
	~~[[Category:Biographical Data]]~~
	==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==		==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]		*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]
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	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1997Vol_13/1301.pdf “The Tarawa File”]		*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1997Vol_13/1301.pdf “The Tarawa File”]
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes?”]		*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes?”]

			[[Category:Artifacts\|Bones]]
			[[Category:Nikumaroro\|Kilts]]
			[[Category:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts\|Kilts]]
			[[Category:Biographical Data\|Kilts]]

Moleski at 03:20, 12 June 2010

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	[[Category:Artifacts]]		[[Category:Artifacts]]
	[[Category:Nikumaroro]]		[[Category:Nikumaroro]]
	[[Category:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts]]		[[Category:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts\|K]]
	[[Category:Biographical Data]]		[[Category:Biographical Data]]
	==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==		==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==

Rickerjones at 14:36, 11 June 2010

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	[[Category:Artifacts]]		[[Category:Artifacts]]
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	[[~~Cagegory~~:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts]]		[[Category:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts]]
	[[Biographical Data]]		[[Category:Biographical Data]]
	==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==		==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]		*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]

Rickerjones: Add catagory: Biographical Data, Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts

2010-06-11T14:35:23Z

Add catagory: Biographical Data, Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts

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	[[Category:Artifacts]]		[[Category:Artifacts]]
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			[[Cagegory:Interviews/Anecdotal Accounts]]
			[[Biographical Data]]
	==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==		==Related TIGHAR Tracks articles==
	*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]		*[http://tighar.org/TTracks/1991Vol_7/0702.pdf "Earhart Project--Summary of Evidence"]

Moleski: /* Amelia Reported Flying Line to Island */

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Amelia Reported Flying Line to Island

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	“They were about through and the native was walking along one end of the island. There in the brush about five feet from the shoreline he saw a skeleton.		“They were about through and the native was walking along one end of the island. There in the brush about five feet from the shoreline he saw a skeleton.

	“What attracted him to it was the shoes. Women’s shoes, American kind. No native wears shoes. Couldn’t if they wanted to—feet too spread out and flat. The shoes were size nine narrow. Beside the body was a [[~~Bendictine~~ Bottle found on Nikumaroro\|cognac bottle]] with fresh water in it for drinking.		“What attracted him to it was the shoes. Women’s shoes, American kind. No native wears shoes. Couldn’t if they wanted to—feet too spread out and flat. The shoes were size nine narrow. Beside the body was a [[Benedictine Bottle found on Nikumaroro\|cognac bottle]] with fresh water in it for drinking.

	“The island doctor said the skeleton was that of a woman. And there were no native women on the island then. Farther down the beach he found a man’s skull, but nothing else.		“The island doctor said the skeleton was that of a woman. And there were no native women on the island then. Farther down the beach he found a man’s skull, but nothing else.
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	So, there you are. Kilts knows there have been many Amelia Earhart theories and may be many more.		So, there you are. Kilts knows there have been many Amelia Earhart theories and may be many more.

	Next month he will fly to the Philippines to visit his daughter and, perhaps, stop off at Gardner in the middle of nowhere and nothing to hunt for an airplane and do a little theory proving of his own.		Next month he will fly to the Philippines to visit his daughter and, perhaps, stop off at Gardner in the middle of nowhere and nothing to hunt for an airplane and do a little theory proving of his own.

	== "Skeleton Is Clew" ==		== "Skeleton Is Clew" ==

Rickerjones at 16:03, 31 May 2010

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	It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]		It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]

	In 1961 KCBS reporter Fred Goerner picked up a shortened AP dispatch of Kilts’ story, and briefly mentioned it in his 1966 book, ''The ~~Searh~~ for Amelia Earhart''. A 1989 letter from Goerner to TIGHAR member Rob Gerth, outlined Goerner’s later research on the story which explained it away as being partially true events with erroneous conclusions. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/1990Vol_6/0601.pdf]		In 1961 KCBS reporter Fred Goerner picked up a shortened AP dispatch of Kilts’ story, and briefly mentioned it in his 1966 book, ''The Search for Amelia Earhart''. A 1989 letter from Goerner to TIGHAR member Rob Gerth, outlined Goerner’s later research on the story which explained it away as being partially true events with erroneous conclusions. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/1990Vol_6/0601.pdf]

	While researching the Kiribati National Archives in Tarawa in 1997, TIGHAR member Peter MacQuerie discovered a formerly secret file labeled “Discovery of Human Remains on Gardner Island” which contained 15 official telegrams and one letter regarding the discovery of a partial skeleton on Gardner Island in 1940—correspondence which corroborated the central theme of the anecdote which Floyd Kilts was told in 1946. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/13_1/tarawa.html]		While researching the Kiribati National Archives in Tarawa in 1997, TIGHAR member Peter MacQuerie discovered a formerly secret file labeled “Discovery of Human Remains on Gardner Island” which contained 15 official telegrams and one letter regarding the discovery of a partial skeleton on Gardner Island in 1940—correspondence which corroborated the central theme of the anecdote which Floyd Kilts was told in 1946. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/13_1/tarawa.html]

Rickerjones: clarify reference location

2010-05-31T12:55:16Z

clarify reference location

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	[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]		[[Image:Floyd Kilts.jpg\|150px\|thumb\|right\| <div align="center">Floyd Kilts (TIGHAR)</div>]]
	Floyd C. Kilts (1891-1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]		Floyd C. Kilts (1891-1964) was born in New York, and later moved to California where he lived for 44 years--32 years in San Diego--employed by the State of California for 40 years of that time as a construction engineer. Kilts saw service in WWI, and again during WWII rated as a Chief Carpenter’s Mate in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1946 his Coast Guard unit was deployed to Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) to dismantle the [[USCG LORAN Station]]. Kilts, in his mid fifties at this time, had a conversation with a native colonist on the island who, through the help of an interpreter, passed on to him lore of bones found on Nikumaroro—an anecdotal tale of skeletal remains found and thought to be those of the lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (See 3 Aug 1999 posting by Ric)[http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/199908.txt]

	It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]		It was not until 1960 that Kilts, during a period of convalescence, retold the story to San Diego based free-lance reporter Lew Scarr. ''The San Diego Evening Tribune'' editor, Leo Bowler, wrote to the British Colonial Secretary on Canton Island in an attempt to verify his story learning that officials had no knowledge of such an event but thought it was highly unlikely. The story, however, was published in the July 21, 1960 edition of the ''Tribune''. [http://tighar.org/TTracks/2001Vol_17/1703.pdf]