Amelia Earhart and the Taraia Object: Yet Another Scam

With all the actually important things that are going on, the Amelia Earhart revisionists are at it AGAIN.

As my followers know, few topics have frustrated and outraged me more than the continued efforts by so many historical revisionists to graffiti Amelia Earhart’s legacy with false conspiracy theories and false alternative histories. Her accomplishments are really cool and deserve respect, not having this kind of tabloid crap vomited all over her.

For the uninitiated, a very quick rehash: There is no doubt about Earhart’s fate, as her plane ran out of fuel and ditched in the immediate vicinity of USCG and USN vessels and personnel who were in radio contact with her from Howland Island, where she was scheduled to land and refuel, and this was all officially logged at the time. They have great boundaries for the area of ocean where she sank – unfortunately, very deep. I’ve written on this here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and am just about fed up with all the alternative history crap.

A heavily artifacted zoom-in on Google Earth imagery, showing objects consistent with the local coconut palm trunks. These appeared following a 2015 storm.

But look at the “Artist’s Impression” version! It’s suddenly the wing of a plane that could only be Amelia Earhart’s!

The new news — as usual, a rehashing of an old false claim — is that the remains of her plane are clearly visible on Google Earth, on the shore of an island that it’s physically impossible for her to have reached. Here is all that is mind-numbingly stupid about this… and as you ponder it, keep in mind that the Purdue Research Foundation has, as far as I can tell, been deceived into financing this, which would suggest that they perform no meaningful due diligence whatsoever.