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Below: Four 2010 News Stories Note:
About The June, 2010 TIGHAR Press Release Story By Discovery News Writer Rossella Lorenzi (See Further Below...) Reality Shows
How None Of The Items TIGHAR found On The Island Of Nikumororo Over The Years Were Ever Authentically
Linked To Amelia Earhart's Last Flight.
| Cartoon seen in the Detroit News March 18, 1992 |
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| Satire of TIGHAR expedition to Nikumororo; Elvis' guitar pick, Amelia's hairpin, Titanic, etc. |
TIGHAR Has Issued Several Major Press Releases Since 1990, Basically Claiming It 'Solved The Mystery.' Of Course It Did No
Such Thing. Following The TIGHAR Story Below, Of The May 5, 2010 News Item Dave Jourdan And Nauticos (Supportive Of Elgen
Long) Has Tried Twice To Look For Earhart's Plane In Deep Water Northwest Of Howland Island. Needless To Say He Came Up Empty.
Still, Jourdan Is Currently Seeking Additional Funding To Again Look For What Many Amelia Earhart Researchers Believe Did
Not End Up Under Water, And May Not Even Exist Anymore; Amelia's Lockheed Electra
10E Airplane. As well, notice how the Nauticos article says of Amelia; "who is believed to have crashed in the
Pacific Ocean." Note: A recent years National Geographic Society poll revealed how about
half of the American public believed something else happened to Earhart and Noonan, not to mention how government and military
figureheads had been alluding to a different truth about Earhart's finality ever since she was declared 'missing.' Earhart's
so-called 'disappearance' happened on July 2, 1937 while she and Noonan were still safely airborn with fuel enough for as
much as four more flying hours, or, about six to seven hundred miles range wise. A later declassified U. S. O-2 Intelligence
memo dated 11/1/38 from a Colonel H. H. C. Richards of Australia explained, "She (Earhart) stated she was turning north
and they continued to hear her at intervals, her signals becoming fainter each time received." Of course the history
books ended up describing Earhart's final words to include her saying, "We are running north and south" as opposed
to just 'turning north.' It's interesting to realize here as well; how since the late 1970s Elgen Long and TIGHAR have consistently
received national press attention with their comparatively innocent offerings, while the 1960s deeper
and more controversial investigative results were seemingly forgotten, or purposefully
discounted or ignored by the news media. (Note the following 'Preface.')
Preface: This 1987 Republic of the Marshall Islands '50th Anniversary of Amelia Earhart's World Flight' commemorative
stamp (one from a series of six) depicts Earhart and Noonan's rescue and the recovery of Earhart's Electra off a shoal adjacent
to Mili Atoll. The Sino-Japanese War began just five days after Earhart was reported missing. It was a war the U. S. was strongly
opposed to. In 2002 the United Nations Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Alfred Cappelle described to Ron Staton of the
Associated Press how it remained "common knowledge" in his country, "Amelia Earhart definitely ended up in
the Marshall Islands."
| On what became of Amelia's plane? |
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| It was hoisted onto a Japanese vessel as the rescued Earhart & Noonan observed. |
One need only ask: Why are Americans
encouraged to ignore such information, and instead invest their hard earned dollars into plane hunts? Answer: The instilled
credo "find the plane, solve the mystery" affords a false sense of hope to the less informed, and keeps the mystery
alive as preferred by U. S. historical dictum. There are current;y no less than four groups trying to raise money for expeditions,
and all of them are certain they know where Earhart's plane will be found; from mountain top jungles to deep sea floor locations.
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Recent news item release about TIGHAR, the well known
group of Earhart plane hunters: "Items hint at Earhart’s final struggle" (Beyond 37's Comments: Really? They do?) "Evidence backs view that pilot, navigator died as castaways" (Beyond 37': It does? They did?) | Aviator
Amelia Earhart is seen in this photo exiting her aircraft at Derry, Ireland, after her solo transatlantic flight in 1932. | FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images | |
By Rossella Lorenzi  updated 8:57 a.m. PT, Thurs., June 3, 2010
Tantalizing
new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island believed
to be the final resting place of the legendary aviatrix. Three pieces of a pocket knife and fragments of what might be a broken cosmetic
glass jar are adding new evidence that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed and eventually died as castaways on Nikumaroro,
an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. The island was some 300 miles southeast of
their target destination, Howland Island... Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft
Recovery (TIGHAR), told Discovery News in an email interview from Nikumaroro... [Beyond 37's comment: Gillespie asserts 'touch DNA' might
be retrievable from the described items. Scientists see such a thing as 'an incredible long shot.' Yet if DNA were to be found,
it would not have come from Earhart or Noonan anyway. See the following explanation.] [Note: Keep an open mind. The above Lorenzi article continues on, although TIGHAR's is an old story repeated
in the press since the early 1990s. Reality states, according to Earhart scholars, TIGHAR has never produced credible evidence
to support Nikumororo as the place where Earhart and Noonan ended up. Instead, experts describe how the 'debris' items found
on Nikumororo by TIGHAR were likely from "different boats known to have visited the island over the years, and
at least one past attempt at habitation." Not to mention, Navy planes flew over the island just days after Amelia turned
up missing and saw no sign of she or her plane. Notice as well, how of the major broadcast networks only ABC & NBC ever
provide newsbites on Earhart in this direction. Several years ago Robert Krulwich of ABC actually went to Nikumororo only
to leave 'unconvinced' TIGHAR was on the right track. The last time CBS did a report on what became of Amelia was Connie Chung's
in the mid-1990s. CBS described (as it has ever since the 1960s, when CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner investigated the Earhart
disappearance matter) how Earhart and Noonan's flight likely ended in the Marshall Islands, except what became of the flying
duo after they did has never been 'officially' authenticated by anyone. (Many people believe they both survived for either
short or long periods of time after they were reported 'missing,' while such a thing was hushed for reasons withheld from
the public.) Richard Gillespie's TIGHAR, like Elgen Long's & Dave Jourdan's 'Nauticos' (see next story down) provide safe
news diversions to convey to a less informed public. The reason the press steers well clear of the Marshall Islands forensic
argument, has to do with its basic acceptance of the United States and Japan never openly discussing something that was 'put
to bed' so long ago, adjacent to the WWII era.]
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Underseas
explorer Dave Jourdan has lead two expeditions in search of the plane of Amelia Earhart, who is believed to have crashed into
the Pacific Ocean during a round-the-world flight in 1937. Jourdan has completed a book about his search, The Deep Sea
Quest for Amelia Earhart, and he’ll be discussing his work at the Orlando Science Center on Saturday, May 8.
Dave Jourdan, author
of "The Deep Sea Quest for Amelia Earhart," will speak at the Orlando Science Center on May 8.
In a phone interview earlier this week, I asked
him if this were the sort of adventure where there would be signs that he was getting closer. “You get encouraged with
every square mile you cover. You’ve eliminated that one, so it’s got to be in another square mile that we haven’t
looked at yet,” Jourdan says. His
team has a proven method for searches. They found the sunken Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, lost in World War II during the
Battle of Midway, and the missing Israeli submarine Dakar in the Mediterranean. “When something goes down in the water,
where it is is always a big mystery. Our approach has always been successful, but it’s a statistical approach,”
he says. “You calculate probablilites and you come up with an area. You’re pretty confident that what you’re
looking for is in that area, so you search that area and you find it. That has always worked for us, every time, we have never
failed.” The hold-up now is that
their search area is big and remote. Even today, it takes a week to sail from Hawaii to the area in question. “She was
in a very remote part of the world at a time when navigation was less precise, and due to many confounding factors, she got
lost. No one knew at the time, had any idea where she was except that she was close to Howland Island, where she was trying
to fly to.” How far away is it? “When we leave, we expect to be gone for six or seven weeks without seeing land.”
All that adds up to a hefty price tag for the search.
Jourdan says the third attempt could cost $1.5 million, and it’s not like there’s gold on board down there.
“It’s not a traditional treasure. It’s a historical
treasure,” he says. “The financing has to be from nonconventional sources.” Backers would have to support the belief that the wreckage could be brought
up and be put on exhibit. He feels confident that they’ve narrowed the location properly, that Earhart’s plane
would not have drifted away. He thinks it sank quickly. “Once you get below the surface of the ocean, the vast general rule is that there’s almost no current,”
he says. “The aircraft would sink almost to the bottom without straying very far.” Although Jourdan is focused on the Earhart case, his emphasis is on the
scientific potential that’s in the deep-blue sea. “There are discoveries to be made down there, I think, that are completely unable to anticipate. It’s
an unexplored frontier,” he says. “Every time you study anything in the ocean, you discover new species, new lifeforms,
new terrain. … Just being there is going to create opportunities.” At the science center, Jourdan will share his adventure following the 1 p.m. showing of
Magic of Flight in the Dr. Phillips CineDome. Start time will be at about 1:45 p.m. His talk (with slideshow) is
included in regular science-center admission. [Beyond 37's Note: Dave Jourdan and Nauticos, unfairly led to believe something exists,
where historically it would not likely exist.]
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Treasure Coast
institute part of hush-hush search for Amelia Earhart's plane[Press
release from SunSentinel.com] Posted 1/11/2010 By Tyler Treadway, TCPalm
"FORT PIERCE — Now it can be told: About
20 staffers from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute took part in a hush-hush search for Amelia Earhart's plane in the
depths of the Pacific Ocean during spring 2009. Now it can be
admitted: They didn't find the wreckage of the Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft that disappeared July 2, 1937, as Earhart and
navigator Fred Noonan attempted an around-the-world flight...." (Above: Thus begins the story of another mislead....) Once
again, as steadfastly predicted by the wary ever since Earhart
plane searching began in the 1960s, another Earhart plane hunt comes up empty...
Amelia Earhart's plane will never be found conventionally, regardless of how high-tech an ocean floor
search effort might be. If her plane still exists, most likely it's being privately cared for on dry land somewhere. Again,
news reports of plane hunts re-energize the Earhart mystery every time new plans are unveiled to try and locate it. As well
they quietly divert attention away from the most prevalent smoking gun (Amelia Earhart's post-loss body evidence in the form
of the Gervais-Irene.)
'Amelia'
Director: Mira Nair
Rating: 4 out of 10 [Press Release by Fox 61
Chattanooga] Review of 'Amelia' posted 2/12/2010
Something
is wrong with this picture: Amelia, a movie directed by Mira Nair, is devoid of the color, spice, and passion that
are trademarks of a Nair film. I'm not sure what happened, but this biopic of famed female Depression-era aviator Amelia Earhart,
who disappeared over the ocean in her attempt at an around-the-world flight, suffers
from symptoms of stiff, lifeless movie-making. The script/dialogue is fairly terrible, with stars Hilary
Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor all sounding like they're reading out of textbooks. Swank, who plays Earhart, and Gere,
who plays her promoter/husband George Putman, have pretty much no chemistry. And the story moves along from one event to the
next without much in the way of drama, suspense, or just general interest. Its theme about a woman who
has control over her own destiny is played straight and flat. Earhart is given a voiceover to express how much she loves flying,
and there are a few dreamy flying sequences, but otherwise the movie itself feels like a tomb, lending itself to a slow, quiet
pace that's possibly meant to be reflective but is instead dirgelike. It's a shame -- Swank in a wig and false teeth is almost
a dead ringer for Earhart (although she plays her with a forced accent) so it feels a bit like a lost opportunity. Maybe a
future movie about Amelia will get it right -- the fascinating aviator deserves a far better movie treatment than this, and
we get a hint of the potential of that better movie from none other than black-and-white clips of the real Amelia Earhart
at the end of the film. That minute or two reveals more about her spirit than the whole rest of Amelia.
[End Article] Note: For a more in depth review and the full history
of the production see the Irene-Amelia.com link titled, "The New Fox Searchlite, Hilary Swank Amelia Earhart Movie."]
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