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A trip planned by researchers searching for answers to the disappearances. american aviator Amelia Earhart is late.
The Indiana-based Purdue Research Foundation and the Oregon Institute for Archeology and Heritage have announced that they are suspending the Talaia Object Exploration project for the time being.
The researchers were scheduled to depart from Majuro in the Marshall Islands on November 4 for Nikumaroro, a remote island located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii.
However, a press release said the project has been postponed to 2026 in view of the start of the South Pacific cyclone season.
“This decision was taken as the team awaits further permission from the Government of Kiribati. seasonal weather challenges It occurs over the Pacific Ocean during the winter,” the release states.
Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the United States on August 24, 1932. (AP)
Once on the island, researchers hope to confirm whether the visual anomaly seen by the satellite, known as the Talaia object, is actually the remains of Earhart’s plane.
Earhart is widely known as aviation pioneerOn August 24, 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo, nonstop, across the United States.
she used to work at Purdue University She served as a career counselor for women in Indiana, living in a women’s dormitory and advising the aeronautical engineering department.
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Earhart piloted the Electra during a trip from New Guinea to Howland Island, but the ship disappeared on July 2, 1937.
Researchers hypothesize that Earhart did not crash. at seaHowever, he instead landed and was stranded on Nikumaroro Island, where he later died.
The Talaia Object Expedition to Nikumaroro Island will investigate an anomaly on a satellite that researchers believe could be Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. (Purdue Research Foundation)
president donald trump previously announced that it had ordered the administration to declassify and release all government records related to Amelia Earhart.
Stephen Schultz, chief legal officer at the Purdue Research Foundation, spoke about Trump’s order at a press conference last month.
“One aspect of that message was that he ordered the release of classified material related to Amelia and her final flight,” he said. “To our knowledge, no records exist. There are no records that are unclassified.”
The Purdue Research Foundation and the Institute for Archeology and Heritage recently announced the “Talaia Object Expedition” project. (Purdue Research Foundation)
Dorothy Cochran, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum An Earhart expert previously told Fox News Digital that there is “no real mystery” regarding Electra’s disappearance.
“Amelia and [navigator] fred [Noonan] I was on the right path. They had a course that took them to nearby Howland Island. …It was a small island in the middle of nowhere, and there were problems with radio communication. We couldn’t find it before we ran out of fuel,” she said.
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There are many theories surrounding her disappearance, including that Earhart was living as a castaway on Nikumaroro Island, that she was captured by the Japanese military, or that she was an “American spy” observing Japanese activities in the Pacific.
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Cochran said he does not support these theories.
“There are facts to follow.” coast guard people “These are the people who were waiting for them in Howland, so it would be appropriate to search in and around Howland,” she said.
