Modern Mysteries

Trump set to declassify secret government records on Amelia Earhart

By T.K. Randall
September 28, 2025 ·  9 comments

Image: Amelia Earhart (file photo)
Credit: Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection, LC-DIG-hec-40747 More than 88 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Model 10 Electra, the question of what happened to her continues to remain one of the biggest unanswered mysteries of the modern age.

Despite numerous expeditions and several possible sightings of her plane's wreckage, the exact location of the crash - as well as whether Earhart survived - remains unknown.

But this may all be set to change in the near future after US President Donald Trump announced that he was going to be ordering his administration to declassify secretive government records concerning Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

"She disappeared in the South Pacific while trying to become the first woman to fly around the World," he said."Amelia made it almost three quarters around the world before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again."

The announcement has come as something of a surprise, mainly because it wasn't clear that the US government even had classified documents concerning the case.

According to Trump, the files set to be released will include "all government records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her."

Whether these will actually help to solve the mystery remains unclear, but they should at least be able to bring some important new details to the table that could help investigators determine what happened to her.

Source: BBC News | Comments (9)

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