Posted on 11/18/2025 1:22:45 PM PST by Red Badger
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of America’s biggest mysteries.
The iconic aviator who became the first woman to cross the Atlantic tragically went missing while attempting to fly around the globe in 1937.
Many of the documents relating to her disappearance have been classified.
Until now!
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday announced the Trump admin have released a new batch of documents relating to Earhart’s disappearance including her last message.
CBS News provided further details of the declassified records and revealed what was Earhart’s last known communications on this earth:
The U.S. National Archives has published a batch of newly declassified government records on Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who vanished over the Pacific in 1937.
Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan, and her disappearance is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore.
President Trump ordered the declassification and release in September of all U.S. government records related to Earhart’s ill-fated final flight.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the documents released on Friday included “newly declassified files from the National Security Agency, information on Earhart’s last known communications, weather and plane conditions at the time, and potential search locations, as well as subsequent inquiries and theories regarding her disappearance.”
Further documents would be publicly released on the National Archives website on a “rolling basis” as they are declassified, Gabbard said in a statement.
The documents include a July 1937 radio log from Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter that was deployed to support Earhart’s flight around the world. Itasca was the last ship to have radio contact with Earhart and Noonan before their aircraft disappeared. The phrase “Earhart Unheard” appears numerous times in the log.
According to the National Archives, the last communication from Earhart’s plane came at about 8:43 a.m. on Jul 2, 1937: “We are on the line 157 337 wl rept msg we wl rept…”
The documents also include military reports about the search as well as memos, telegrams and newspaper clippings.
Among them is the July 16, 1960, front page of the San Mateo Times with the headline: “Ex-Serviceman Claims He Saw Earhart Grave.” Former Army Sergeant Thomas Devine told the newspaper that while serving in Saipan, a native on the island showed him an unmarked grave of two white people “who came from the sky.” Devine said he believed it to be the grave of Earhart and Noonan.
Full text:
Beginning today, at @POTUS’ direction, records related to Amelia Earhart’s final flight and disappearance 88 years ago will be declassified and shared with the American people.
These records include reports, maps, and other documents tracing Earhart’s final journey, her last known communications and location, and the initial search following her disappearance.
Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s leadership, a historic initiative is underway to digitize and publicly release these records from across the federal government, including newly declassified files today from @NSAgov.
As agencies identify additional files, the new documents will be uploaded to @USNatArchives on a rolling basis, alongside those previously released, at http://archives.gov/ameliaearhart.
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Aviation Ping!.........................
200 years from now, they will still be getting theories about Earheart & Judge Crater...
So, why 88 years instead of three?
For us non-aviators, why would this be classified in the first place ?
maybe the last message was
“Massive Jap fleet Chuuk lagoon, many fighter planes obser....
“Kilroy was here...”
It's not about aviation but about her potentially being a spy, moving the U.S. involvement in the War in the Pacific prior to Pearl Harbor, and possibly earlier than 1937 when she disappeared.
Earhart/Noonan isn’t on my list of long overdue things to be declassified, but it’s an encouraging step in the right direction. Thanks Tulsi.
“What are sheep doing way up here in the clouds?”
[Amelia Earhart’s Last Message]
“I have information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Diane Jezebel Rodham Clinton who will be born in 1947 and marry Bill Clinton in 1975...”
“Trust no one....” (transmission ends abruptly)
“ Further documents would be publicly released on the National Archives website on a “rolling basis” as they are declassified, Gabbard said in a statement.”
That’s stupid. Release it now.
Hehehe
Sheep, not flying pigs?
“So, why 88 years instead of three?”
Exactly. WWII might be a temporary excuse, but that was 80 years ago. It can only be that someone has a bad case of “I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW!”.
As Bill Cosby said, “First you say it, then you do it.”
I had to borrow from “The X-Files”
“Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday announced the Trump admin have released a new batch of documents relating to Earhart’s disappearance including her last message.”
They rabble is asking too many questions about Epstein and MAGA. Flares!! Chaff! Flares! Chaff!!!!
Nice distraction technique...
Reminds me of Air New Zealand Flight 901 DC-10
Yikes
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