Amelia Earhart's Bones ?

[tbrown 26]

Just got done reading an interesting piece at Yahoo, about some possibly human bone fragments found on the island where Amelia Earhart may have gone down in 1937. The University of Oklahoma is going to attempt DNA analysis, but is cautioning everyone that the fragments might be from turtle bones as well as human.

This is the same island where remnants of a woman's shoe from a 1930's style was found, as well as an aluminum panel and a piece of plexiglass the exact thickness and curvature of a Lockheed Electra window. They're excavating the remains of a campsite that gives clues of western people, and not islanders, having lived for some time. These people, whoever they were, apparently brought shellfish ashore before cutting out the meat, while islanders apparently do it in the water.

The water off the reef is 1000 - 2000 ft and they're still trying to raise $3-5 million to finance a deep sea search for the wreck of the plane.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[pilotdave 0]

I met the guy that leads the organization searching for her. My impression is that every now and then some major new discovery comes out along with a request for more funding. Seems to have kept him employed for a long time. But so far all his theories have been proven wrong. A while back he held a press conference where he announced he had solved the mystery and found solid evidence. Every bit of it was proven wrong later on.

I used to volunteer at a museum that was restoring the same type of plane as her's. I took some measurements for him to use to scale photographs.

Dave

[airtwardo 7]

Was it a recent article?

Quite some time back, there was a group at Oshkosh trying to raise money for the same thing.

They were selling a book which I bought and read, ended up having a couple drinks one night with the author...very interesting discussion.

That hypothesis was that they had ditched near the island and survived until being captured by the Japanese, the aircraft was recovered and reverse engineered...some very similar engine parts we used on Japanese aircraft not long after the Lockheed went down.

They believe Earhart and Noonan were moved to an occupied island where they were held as prisoners until they were beheaded.

The author had interviewed a woman who supposedly witnessed the execution and even directed them to a burial site which when excavated, exposed remnants of a woman's shirt that was period correct. No skeletal remains were uncovered.

Several years later I read somewhere that this group was ending their investigation because some of the things they had found on the island were not what they first thought they were.

There were IIRC, some personal items thought to have belonged to Earhart that they were unable to actually connect. There was a part of a woman's shoe that it was later learned was manufactured well after the disappearance, and some of the 'plastic' material thought to be from the plane was the wrong chemical make-up for the period.

I wonder if new evidence has been found?

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[diablopilot 2]

Some of their evidence is compelling. http://tighar.org/

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[Southern_Man 0]

Must be a new article as I saw a story about this on Good Morning America an hour or so ago. Hard for me to believe that they couldn't tell turtle bones from humans from a very, very cursory examination.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[diablopilot 2]

Think weathered and worn down by wind water and sand.

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[Quincy 0]

Earhart Clicky

Saw Tom's article on Friday too ... however ... if I remember correctly it was a link from CNN. This is the same article just in a different site. Quite interesting.

[Southern_Man 0]

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Think weathered and worn down by wind water and sand.

Yeah, I've looked at animal bones that are 2500 yrs. old and weathered by just about anything you can think of. Not too difficult to tell poultry from antelope from sheep/goat even to my untrained eye. Not just by size but also by bone structure. I don't know specifics of turtle bones but I have to think they are different from people bones.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[skyrider 0]

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Think weathered and worn down by wind water and sand.

Yeah, I've looked at animal bones that are 2500 yrs. old and weathered by just about anything you can think of. Not too difficult to tell poultry from antelope from sheep/goat even to my untrained eye. Not just by size but also by bone structure. I don't know specifics of turtle bones but I have to think they are different from people bones.

Much....thinner harder outer layer....not as heavy inside "webbing"? I am no doctor, (or even close) but have delt with many bones of many creatures....

Not even the worse MD would mistake turtle for human...