And the Oh, Welcome back everyone to

1001 Heroes Legends Histories and Mysteries podcast. This is your host John Hagadored

and it's great to be with you today. We have covered a number of unsolved mysteries here at

1001 Heroes, but never one as powerfully moving as that of the true fate of

Amelia Earhart. I'm usually not drawn toward government conspiracies such as who killed JFK or did

the 1969 moon landing really happen but I am old enough and wise enough to know that when the government wants to hide something, they can do a very thorough job of it,

as they did in 1947, when one or more alien crafts with occupants crashed near Roswell, New Mexico.

Or in 1937, when Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's Electra crashed landed on a reef in the Marshall Islands,

where they tried for six days to radio for help

and were heard by officials on the island of Naro, radio personnel on the HMS Achilles,

Pan Am radio stations on Wake and Midway Islands, and Macapoo Point.

And those transmission copies were later seized by Naval Intelligence, and by dozens of other radio stations which had been designated to receive

her frequencies along with the wide assortment of ham radio enthusiasts in

places like Kentucky, Maine, Florida, Texas, California, and Canada, some of whom wrote down the details

of Earhart's distress calls, and those details and dates match. This was the days before internet, the cell phones.

The official Navy position on Earhart following a long and exhaustive search for

a plane is that Earhart and her navigator Noonan ran out of gas

ditch their plane in the ocean after not being able to land at their designated

refuelling point at Howland Island and their plane, along with their bodies, lies at the bottom of the Pacific.

End of story.

Except for the long trail of witnesses who saw a very alive Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan picked up by a Japanese fishing boat,

transferred to a larger boat in Jabour, where they were given medical treatment.

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