Link: Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests

dayhiker said:

I watched this last night and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The biggest head scratcher to me was the steel wheeled things left behind on that atol. They kept arguing that they were used to transport the plane from one end of the atol to the other end. These were small diameter, thin wheels that are intended for steel tracks. It doesn't seem likely that they used tracks because if they had left the wheels behind, then they would have left the tracks behind too. How would these wheels have performed over sand and coral? How would they keep each pair of these wheels turned in the same direction since they weren't on tracks. That all seemed awfully fishy to me. The logic of how they came to be on that island seemed to make sense. They also had a lot of simultaneous circumstantial evidence all pointing in one direction. Any one tidbit of info wouldn't mean much, but together, it did build a case.

As far as the photo goes, it seems that all they really built is that each of the people resembled the people in question. Their proportions were correct and the overlays matched. Having two that simultaneously matched made it more likely that it was correct, but they still didn't prove it. Once they moved on, they continuously referred to the photo as if they were definitely the people in the photo. They're hoping the viewers forget that it might be the two people in the photo.

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Elefantman said:

The photo that this whole story is based on was taken after 1940, not 1937.

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Has to be aliens with their time warp doohicky thingamabob. How else can yo explain it.

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Claims made in a US documentary that the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart crash-landed on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and was taken prisoner by the Japanese appear to have been proved false by a photograph unearthed in a travel book.

The History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, which aired in the US on Sunday, made the claim that the American and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ended up in Japanese custody based on a photograph discovered in the US national archives that purported to show them standing at a harbour on one of the islands.

The film said the image “may hold the key to solving one of history’s all-time greatest mysteries” and suggested it disproved the widely accepted theory that Earhart and Noonan disappeared over the western Pacific on 2 July 1937 near the end of their attempt at a history-making flight around the world.
But serious doubts now surround the film’s premise after a Tokyo-based blogger unearthed the same photograph in the archives of the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library.

The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.

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