An amateur investigator who runs the website, The Road to Amelia Earhart, says a satellite image he spied on Apple Maps may solve aviation’s most enduring mystery.
“As if right under our nose, an image suggesting Amelia Earhart’s plane is submerged at the Taraia spit in Nikumaroro lagoon,” said Michael Ashmore of Chowchilla, California. “This slightly murky image found in 2021 may hold the location of the wreckage that’s been hidden away in its watery grave for more than eight decades. This time capsule could hold the clues to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s disappearance on that fateful day.”
The image is what “may be a large piece of plane wreckage exhibiting angles that are curiously consistent in size and shape to some aircraft parts,” he continued.
He postulates it is “most likely a section of wing, though not yet substantiated.”
The Navy veteran says the image is “more supporting evidence” that Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E has been there “ever since Amelia put it down in the lagoon all those years ago, coming in hard and severing part of a wing that settled adjacent to the main body of aircraft.”
Michael and his brother Robert are “on a mission to bring Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan home by solving this mystery one clue at a time” using “modern satellite imagery mixed with hard work.”
“The clues are out there, we just need to see them,” Michael concludes.
I have done some island flying, and you always have a plan B and an alternate within your fuel range if you get lost and/or cant reach your destination due to weather, etc. I still feel they headed North West and ended up in the Marshalls. There is eyewitness testimony that they were there, and that ship with the hoist was nearby, quickly grabbing the expensive, new Electra. She was a celeb in Japan, and they would not have harmed her, not sure about Noonan. There is a file in the Dept of State archives that says she applied for Marshall Island citizenship around 1939. She was apparently pissed at both her promoter Hubby and the Military for not picking her up quickly. Roosevelt was warned away from the Marshalls and he wasn’t yet ready for a war in 1937, so he left her on the beach!
The image is ambiguous at best. Before I outfitted an expedition, I’d be talking to several of the companies that specialize in commercial satellite imagery. Some of the images are really impressive, as are their prices. Even so, it has to be easier than sailing off chasing shadows.
That said, if you are looking for someone or several someones to finance your cruise to the South Pacific while you hunt for the Golden Fleece or the Ark of the Covenant or an honest politician or whatever, you may be onto something here!
One day, this mystery may be solved, I just don’t think that this is that day – but good luck, certainly!
I’m not sure how you can look at that fuzzy image and conclude you found Amelia Earhart‘a plane. All I see area a few slightly dark area’s that could be natural coloring. But, if you look into the tree line you might see Bigfoot. Sorry, just pointing out that just because you see something doesn’t make it the thing you’re looking for.
Good luck with your project but I think we have heard this song before!