Amelia Earhart Mystery: The Photo Used For The Latest Of The Theory On Her Missing Taken Too Early To Be The Missing Pilot
- Recently, a new theory regarding the fate of Amelia Earhart surfaced.
- It has been claimed that the photo is new evidence for the theory.
But it appears to have first been published in 1935, two years before Earhart vanished. In this session, we will learn about the latest theories and facts unfolding regarding the Earhart mystery.
New Light To The Latest Theory
A newly discovered photo that was claimed to hold the key to the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s disappearance may have been published 2 years before she vanished, new evidence suggests.
Two bloggers say they found the same photo in a Japanese coffee table book dated 1935, back when Earhart was safely in the US.
The bloggers also claim that they originally published the photo in a travel book titled “Naval life line; The View of Our South Pacific: Photo Album of Southern Pacific Islands.”
In Japan’s largest collection of books, the National Diet Library, a digital photo shows the book. The site says it is from Showa 10, the 10th year of the Showa emperor, equivalent to 1935.
A blogger named Matt Holly suggested that the person identified as Earhart in the photo could be male instead.
“This (figure) has an upper body group of a man,”
Holly added,
“The entire life of the Marshallese was changing. Then in 1937 the war on China and military activities in the Marshall Islands (by the Japanese). There is not a Japanese person on that dock. If it was 1937, there would be Japanese soldiers there,”
he said.
Response Of History Channel To The New Evidence
In a statement on Tuesday, the History Channel said that its investigators were exploring the latest developments and the channel would be “transparent in our findings.”
“Ultimately, historical accuracy is most important to us and our viewers,”
the channel said on Twitter.
HISTORY has a team of investigators exploring the latest developments about #AmeliaEarhart and we will be transparent in our findings. (1/2)
— HISTORY (@HISTORY) July 11, 2017
New Evidence Debunked?
A former US Treasury agent claimed to have discovered the photo in the US National Archives. The report claims that the photo shows Earhart and Noonan on the dock at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The evidence that came from the Marshall Islands, an area Japan administered between the two World Wars, lent support to the theory suggesting the Japanese army had indeed captured her.
Many immediately raised questions about the photo. Dorothy Cochrane, who holds the position of curator for the Aeronautics Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, expressed her doubts to CNN.
“People take photos and interpret them, and they’re free to do that. It has not persuaded me.”
Dorothy said Earhart was one of the most revered women and pilots of the 1930s and an international celebrity already when she vanished.
She had already been the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone in May 1932. So when she embarked on a circumnavigational voyage, it was headline news.
“For more than a month, millions of people followed the world flight and so, when she and Noonan disappeared en route from Lae, New Guinea, to tiny Howland Island, it was naturally front-page and heart-breaking news,”
Cochrane said, adding,
“I don’t blame people for wanting to know (what happened), and it is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.”
News Courtesy: CNN
