Trump orders release of government records on Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviator

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is directing his administration to declassify and release all US government records related to the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart.

Earhart, one of the most celebrated figures in aviation history, became the first woman and only the second person after Charles Lindbergh to complete a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.

Five years later, in July 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean at age 39 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Despite extensive search efforts, neither her plane nor her remains were ever found,

Her disappearance fueled decades of speculation, ranging from theories that she crashed into the ocean to claims she was captured by Japanese forces during World War II. Historians and researchers have long called for transparency on any official records tied to the case. The FBI and National Archives have released some documents over the years, including Navy search reports and FBI files from the 1930s–1940s.

Trump’s announcement did not specify which agencies still hold documents on Earhart or when the public release will occur. The move comes amid his broader push to declassify certain historical records, such as those relating to the President John F. Kennedy assassination.

2 thoughts on “Trump orders release of government records on Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviator”
  1. Nothing to see here, people, move along now. All this will do is cause more grifters to surface and try to relieve you of your money for an “expedition” somewhere, complete with camera crew and foolish advertisers for the resulting boring and repetitive TV show.

  2. Its hard to imagine why any documents about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance would even be “classified” in the first place.

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