Declassified Amelia Earhart Documents Shed New Light on 1937 Disappearance

Historic government files on Amelia Earhart’s disappearance are made public, including her last radio transmission and credible distress signals from the Gardner Island area.

Newly unsealed government records related to famed American aviator Amelia Earhart have been made public.

The U.S. National Archives released 4,624 pages related to the disappearance of Earhart on the Electra on Friday.

A variety of documents detail Earhart’s last known communications, maps, tables and logs.

AMELIA EARHART MYSTERY EXPEDITION HALTED AS RESEARCHERS SEEK ANSWERS ON MISSING PLANE

Her last communication was documented on July 2, 1937, the day of her disappearance over the Pacific. It reads,