Overview
- The National Archives posted roughly 4,600 pages after a Trump directive, featuring NSA materials, Coast Guard Itasca radio logs, weather reports, and early search records.
- The Itasca log highlights Earhart’s last confirmed transmission at about 8:43 a.m. on July 2, 1937, referencing the line 157–337 as searches began near Howland Island.
- ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard said additional Earhart records will be declassified and released on a rolling basis.
- Researchers note much of the material was already accessible and say the documents are unlikely to change the widely accepted fuel-exhaustion scenario.
- A planned investigation of the Nikumaroro ‘Taraia Object’ has been postponed to 2026 as teams await local clearances and work around cyclone-season constraints.