Posted on 07/11/2017 8:34:03 AM PDT by rdl6989
That's a possibility. However, then the issue is how did the travelogue get a photo supposedly taken by an American spy and buried in top secret files only recently de-classified? The fact that the photo shows up at all destroys the History Channel hype.
The tv documentary was very interesting until the final 5 minutes of the program..... A big fat nothing burger.
They excavated around the vicinity of a crematorium where an earlier excavation found a bunch of bone fragments.
They were teeing up for a part two....
Oops. My theory that Earhardt had been brainwashed and led the raid on Pearl Harbor just got shot down...
If only Geraldo Rivera had been the host of the program. I mean look how well he handled the Al Capone vault show.
Yes but his highest category was 'extremely likely.' He hedged on his conclusion. I was surprised by his statement because if this was such conclusive evidence, I would have expected the expert to use his highest degree of assurance which is extremely likely. He made a definitive statement early (which might have been edited to make it appear stronger than it was) but when asked for his professional opinion, he ratcheted it back.
It is matter of opinion. I'm certain, given more time, the expert could have gone into much more detail about why he concluded what he did. The methodology isn't as easily corrupted as you suggest - certainly, other experts would spot the manipulation. There is a reason these experts get paid good money by court participants, museums, collectors, the government, and others to validate photographs. This expert might not have applied A-1 techniques and/or allowed his objectivity to be compromised but the methodology isn't that flawed. On the other hand, it is generally not conclusive by itself.
Then it is actual proof that she was sucked into a time vortex and travelled back in time. The Voyager crew found her shortly thereafter and are keeping her sequestered due to the Temporal Prime Directive 2835 and enforced by the Temporal Integrity Commission.
I watched the program and while it was inconclusive I am struck by the lack of comment about the plane being towed on the barge as a deciding factor. Why would any plane be being towed as in the picture? And the picture is not clear enough for me to ascertain if it was, indeed, a Lockheed Electra. Because the plane was cut off of the picture making the rounds on the internet we are left with a facial recognition/biomarkers argument versus a Japanese blogger that provides “evidence” absolving the Japanese from one more war atrocity. All parties have a dog in this fight while the general public is left to decide who they want to believe.
Did they ever say what happened to those bones? Supposedly, they went off for testing and it was concluded that they belong to a Caucasian female of approximately 40. If those bones could be located and DNA extracted and matched to Earhart (or Noonan. if the previous analysis was incorrect), the story's credibility skyrockets. Of course, the chain of custody might be a problem. We might not know where the bones came from and if the bones of Earhart and Noonan were examined or those of some relative of one of those two.
I watched this History Channel special on Earhart and while all kinds of means we’re employed to “prove” Earhart and Noonan were in that photo, there was nothing offered to prove where and when the photo itself was taken. Apparently it took very little effort to establish the photo was taken years before. I was also unimpressed with the eyewitnesses and the convenient explanation that all skeletal remains found in the 1940s and 1960s had just gone missing and no other physical evidence was provided. The theory that Earhart and Noonan crashed and were marooned on an uninhabited atoll has more credibility since at least there are indirect pieces of physical evidence found there that could be linked to them.
New article on AE: “Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan” on Sunday night History Channel show.
I still think that the show’s premise and Fred Groener’s book about AE crash landing on Mili Atoll and dying on Saipan are correct.
Shark Week came early for the History Channel it would seem.
Such phoniness from a channel that was once decent.
There is no history on the "History Channel." And the former "History International/2" was turned into a channel of degraded filth.
A volcano eruption had completely destroyed Rabaul in May 1937 adding few hundred miles to the trip.
The Australians actually had to move their administration to Lae where Earhart refueled.
They rolled the dice and lost.
Even during WWII when the area was better developed it was still a dangerous area to fly, storms could brew up at any time forcing detours that could dangerously stretch your fuel supply.
That sounds like it’s right out of the documentary on the History Channel.Numerous witnesses recall certain things they saw as children back then, and recall being told to never say anything about that woman and man they saw in the custody of the Japanese military.The pair of “stars” of this docu, a retired Treasury Agent and a high ranking former FBI guy,had an obvious agenda going in, and seized upon some documents recently declassified, all of which pointed to a cover-up-—which they feel further buttresses their claim that Earhart and her navigator were captured at the site of the plane crash, held, probably imprisoned, and killed “as spies”.Their most dramatic claim is that they were abandoned by the US Government so as not to reveal that we had a very active intelligence program re: the Japanese, that they supposedly should never find out about. That on the face of it was not too convincingly proved. Earhart’s own brother is convinced that she died of dysentery while in prison and that her navigator was beheaded. (That is certainly not outside the Jap Military’s wheelhouse—they were into the most savage kind of punishment, as was proved time and again during WW2. Some not inconsiderable amount of “proof” though, was put on this photo on the wharf , though,now proved to be from two years earlier, but it really doesn’t completely undermine the rest of their theories-—it merely throws the selectivity of their into question. Either way, it was a documentary exploration which left the viewer with a lingering sadness, and some degree of outrage, justifiable or not.
interesting info, thx
The photo on the wharf supposedly showing Earhart “sittin’ on the dock of the bay” with her back to the camera, and the navigator standing up in a group of others, was from a BOOK that was published TWO YEARS before her disappearance , so it couldn’t have been taken any later than 1935. It is therefore not what they said it was, and could not be offered as any kind of evidence supporting the rest of their conspiracy story. The rest of it, however, “might” be true in parts.Some strong evidence that the plane crashed on the Atoll is established by recovered parts of a plane matching exactly the rolled (reinforced) metal on the front of the plane, in addition to some wheeled dollies which they say were used to move the crashed plane from where it landed, were discovered just sitting there on a stretch of beach continuing to rust out after all these decades. Photos exhibited in the docu show the Jap military using these wheeled dollies to move other stuff around
The documentary positively crowed the fact that the two lead invesstigators were formerly with the Treasury Dept and the FBI-—but maybe you’re saying that none of us on the thread brought it up? PS-—Crowdstrike wasn’t brought up, but I don’t know what that is....maybe a kind of crowdfunding that was used to finance this investigation? I am looking it up now.
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