Amelia Earhart PNG Theory

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Originally Posted by David Billings

Yes, Richard Gillespie is regurgitating the supposed radio calls with a new analysis of the calls heard, even those on harmonics.

I have a hard time believing that school kids and housewives in the lower 48 would pick up harmonics of a 50 watt 1930's transmitter over 6000 miles away even with gray line DX'ing and a high sunspot number. Supposedly, they were randomly tuning the airwaves on home radios and came across Earhart and Noonan's plaintive appeals for help.

A couple of assessments of Gillespie's efforts from Smithsonian magazine articles:

In his ten trips to Nikumaroro, Gillespie has brought back a rusted pocket knife, bottles, zippers and pieces of a shoe, any of which could have belonged to Earhart and Noonan, but also to the people who lived on the island between 1939 and 1963. Gillespie and Elgen Long have been arguing for decades over the piece of aluminum found there. Long says the piece obviously comes from the wing of a PBY, a U.S. military seaplane. “I think if Ric proved anything, it’s that [Earhart and Noonan] never were close to that island,” says Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. “Otherwise he would have found something definitive. Ric is in the business of taking wealthy people on an archaeological adventure, Indiana Jones-style.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...953646/?page=2

But none of this evidence is airtight, and the mystery behind her final resting spot remains unsolved. Many researchers refute all of TIGHAR’s claims. Dorothy Cochrane, curator for general aviation at the National Air and Space Museum, wrote in an e-mail:

“Both myself and Senior curator Dr. Tom Crouch have been debunking [Richard] Gillespie’s theory for more than 25 years. Our stance—that she went down into the Pacific Ocean in the proximity of Howland Island—is based on facts. These facts come from her radio broadcasts enroute to Howland and directly to the US Coast Guard ship Itasca. These facts come from Earhart, Lockheed, USCG files, and respected researchers who compiled the details of her flight and her aircraft. Many others have also rejected Gillespie’s claims. Gillespie’s theory is based on conjecture and circumstance. He repeatedly ignores facts such as the found sole of a woman’s shoe being the wrong size for Earhart—a fact stated by her sister.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...e-1-180960995/