Article snippet: Posted at 8:00 pm on July 11, 2017 by streiff On July 9, the History Channel aired a bizarre and dishonest program called Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence. I posted on this bit of stupidity from the Nazis and Alien Channel last week. In brief, there are three popular theories that surround the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in July of 1937. The most plausible is that Earhart missed landfall and flew until her Lockheed Electra ran out of fuel and she crashed somewhere in the Pacific. The next most plausible story is that she managed to land her aircraft on Gardner Island, now called Nikumaroro, where she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, eventually succumbed to starvation and/or thirst. These are the only plausible theories. The next most popular theory, the one that History Channel fluffed in an obscene manner, was that Earhart was rescued by the Japanese and subsequently executed by them. This latter theory has been factually destroyed many times but it refuses to go away. An aviation historian writing at The Daily Beast points out that to believe this you have to disbelieve Japanese policy of the late 1930s: This History Channel bases its entire story on a single photograph that shows a man and a woman on a dock at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. That’s it. Period. As it turned out, the History Channel photo was not the new discovery that was promised. This is the image that was supposed to solve the mystery: A Japanese military history blogger, Kota... Link to the full article to read more