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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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My understanding is that the mystery of Amelia is due to Amelia’s refusal to carry an MF radio with trailing wire antenna.
Not actually anything new. I’d read about every bit of “news” in excerpt before. Does the full article release anything more?
WTF?
Her last message: I need to stop to use the restroom.
😃😄😂😂🤣🤣🤣
“Hillary Diane Jezebel Rodham Clinton’
That’s my latest version of her name 🤣🤣
Chuuk would have pretty far away I think, but maybe Im wrong.
A dozen paragraphs down to get to any substance. The writer must get paid by the word.
“Mountain goat”
Oopsie...
[We have occasional Big Horns in the yard tearing things up, but no Mtn. goats.]
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Five or six years ago we had [on a very clear day] AF1 clear the compound by ~ 1,000 ft.
[Fun....]
Amelia Earhart last message: “There is a bright light that has enveloped the plane. It is pulling the plane up towards the unidentified flying object”
“My God, it’s full of stars!”
The Imperial Japanese Military was active in the area............
Flying at 1000 feet, low on fuel, no bearing, no reply.............
They went into the ocean......................
We’re out of gas and flying at 1000 feet...................
Per Grok.....
Meaning of “On the Line 157 337”Navigation Context: This phrase refers to a line of position (LOP) in celestial navigation, a technique used by Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, to pinpoint their location without modern GPS. It indicates they were flying along a specific sun line calculated at sunrise that morning.
The Numbers: 157° and 337° are compass bearings (measured clockwise from true north).
These are reciprocal headings: 157° is southeast, and 337° is its opposite, northwest (adding 180° gives the reverse direction).
Together, they describe a straight north-south navigational line passing through Howland Island (their intended refueling stop in the central Pacific, near the equator).
Why This Line? Noonan likely used a sextant reading of the sun’s position at dawn to establish this LOP. It served as a fallback when they couldn’t visually spot Howland or get a radio fix from the nearby USS Itasca. By flying along this line, they hoped to intersect Howland while conserving fuel.
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I still cdon’t know where it was as to be found on Google Earth
“Rosebud.”
Some people think that they were waaaay off course, near Saipan...................
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