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Amelia Earhart

American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)

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Nov 29, 2025

What evidence supports or refutes claims that Amelia Earhart was on a spy mission during her final flight?

Declassified U.S. government records recently released total more than 4,600 pages and include Navy and Coast Guard reports, radio transcripts and decades of correspondence; mainstream historians say ...

Nov 28, 2025

What evidence supports the claim that Amelia Earhart was on a spy mission when she disappeared?

Available sources show renewed public attention after the U.S. ordered and began releasing thousands of declassified Amelia Earhart records in late 2025, but those records and contemporary reporting d...

Nov 28, 2025

How do alternative explanations (crash-and-sink, Nikumaroro castaway, Japanese capture) compare in evidentiary strength to the spy theory?

Available reporting shows three mainstream, evidence-grounded alternatives to the “spy/capture” idea—crash-and-sink (ditching at sea), Nikumaroro castaway (landing or wreckage on Nikumaroro island), a...

Nov 30, 2025

Have declassified documents or later inquiries changed the understanding of why they were detained?

Declassification activity has accelerated: the National Declassification Center listed 52 projects totaling 664,527 pages completed between April and June 2025 . Major repositories — the National Arch...

Oct 13, 2025

Why hasnt Biden or Trump releases the Epstein files

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have not released a comprehensive set of unredacted “Epstein files,” and recent partial disclosures have come from House Oversight Committee ...