Was Earhart’s flight a cover for her espionage on behalf of the Roosevelt government as the 1943 movie Flight for Freedom suggests?
Or did Earhart and Noonan stage the disappearance and assume new identities? Did Earhart live out the rest of her life as Irene Craigmile Bolam in New Jersey? (Bolam herself denied she was Earhart won a legal action against the publishers of a book suggesting she was.)
Was Earhart abducted by aliens and taken to the Delta Quadrant?
But in recent years research by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has supported another theory: that Earhart and Noonan crash landed on the tiny island of Nikumaroro (formerly known as Gardner Island) and may have survived there for some time. The recent discovery and analysis of material gathered at the site, near where a partial human skeleton was found in 1940, could provide more clues to Earhart and Noonan’s fate. (via msnbc.com)
