Monday, July 24, 2006 • 7:00 pm
Virginia Air & Space Center
Admission is Free!

The 1937 disappearance of aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan is a mystery that continues to fascinate. Several drastically different hypothetical answers have been provided to the question:
"What happened to Amelia Earhart?"

Possible theories include:
• Ran out of gas and crashed into the Pacific
• Captured by the Japanese and executed
• Captured by the Japanese and survived
• Hidden as part of an elaborate espionage operation
by the U.S., Great Britain, or others
• Trapped in a time/space warp
• Became Tokyo Rose
• Returned to the U.S. and died in the 1990s
• The Nikumaroro Hypothesis - landed, survived
for awhile, and died on Nikumaroro atoll in the Phoenix Islands.

Join Dr. Thomas F. King, Senior archaeologist for the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recover (TIGHAR) for a lecture on the Nikumaroro hypothesis.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has been conducting interdisciplinary scientific research testing the Nikumaroro Hypothesis since 1989, and may be coming close to an answer. Amelia Earhart's Shoes, first published in 2001 and republished in an updated paperback edition in 2004, recounts TIGHAR's adventures and presents the evidence.



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