In Touch Weekly — July 24, 2017

THE SHOCKING NEW PHOTO

Bombshell

evidence

reveals what

happened to

the aviation

pioneer

80 years after

she disappeared

without a trace

I

t’s one of the greatest

mysteries of all time.

In July 1937, Amelia

Earhart and her navi-

gator, Fred Noonan, van-

ished somewhere over the

Pacifi c Ocean as she at-

tempted to become the fi rst

female pilot to circumnavi-

gate the globe — and were

never heard from again.

“The common theory for

the last 80 years,” says

Shawn Henry, a former

FBI executive assistant

director who’s been inves-

tigating her disappearance,

“was that she crashed into

the ocean.”

But a newly surfaced

vintage photo is blow-

ing that old theory wide-

open. Les Kinney, a former

Treasury Department of-

fi cial and naval intelligence

offi cer, discovered a grainy

black-and-white image hid-

den away in a formerly top-

secret fi le in the National

Archives that he, Henry

and others believe shows

Amelia, 39, and Fred, 44,

on a dock on the Jaluit

Atoll in the Marshall Is-

lands — hundreds of miles

from where they’re said to

have disappeared — as well

as her Lockheed Electra

plane on a nearby barge.

“The photograph is pretty

compelling,” Henry tells

In Touch, explaining that

stories originating in the

PROOF IN BLACK AND WHITE

“The photo shows Amelia Earhart and

Fred Noonan in the Marshall Islands with

the Koshu [ship] in the background and a

barge with an object on it that is the

exact size of her Lockheed Electra plane,”

former FBI executive assistant director

Shawn Henry tells In Touch.

AMELIA EARHART

FINALLY SOLVED!

HER NAVIGATOR AMELIA

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