Overview
- DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced the initial release, which includes Navy and Coast Guard search logs, maps, messages, and newly declassified NSA files.
- The materials detail Earhart’s last known communications, weather and aircraft condition reports, and potential search locations from July 1937.
- Correspondence in the trove ranges from government telegrams dismissing Japanese-capture rumors to letters claiming telepathy or a burial site in Spain.
- Aviation historians say many documents were previously accessible and judge the new batch unlikely to settle the long-standing mystery.
- Officials plan ongoing declassifications, with additional Earhart-related records to be digitized and posted as agencies identify more files.