President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will declassify and release all government records related to Amelia Earhart, the trailblazing aviator who mysteriously vanished during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937.
“I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, disappeared alongside navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937, after taking off from Lae, New Guinea, en route to Howland Island. Their Lockheed 10-E Electra never reached its destination, and the pair were declared legally dead in 1939 after a massive Navy and Coast Guard search failed to locate them.
“Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again,” Trump noted, adding that her disappearance has “captivated millions” for nearly nine decades.
Theories about what happened have ranged from the plane simply running out of fuel and crashing into the Pacific, to claims she was captured by Japanese troops, to speculation her flight doubled as a secret U.S. spy mission in the South Pacific.
The president’s order follows his administration’s earlier declassifications of files tied to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump said the Earhart records will provide the public with long-awaited transparency: “She was an Aviation Pioneer … Her disappearance is one of history’s great mysteries, and the American people deserve to know everything we can.”
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