# TIGHAR 2025: The Earhart Project: the Nikumaroro hypothesis and the evidence > TIGHAR, 2025. 18 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Used for the flight and search chronology, the artefact inventory and TIGHAR's own expedition… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMC2J1FFE/the-earhart-project-the-nikumaroro-hypothesis-and-the Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)TIGHAR 2025 **0** # The Earhart Project: the Nikumaroro hypothesis and the evidence TIGHAR, 2025. _TIGHAR_. The project's own statement of the flight, the search, the Nikumaroro hypothesis and the artefacts, with links to its document archive (the Lambrecht report, the Gallagher papers, the bones chronology) and its expedition history since 1989. **Disappearance of Amelia Earhart** Web pageChecked against the original0 ## What it's used for here Used for the flight and search chronology, the artefact inventory and TIGHAR's own expedition record; the hypothesis it argues is recorded as a reading, not a finding. ## Cited by on this site 18 records [All were hoaxes, misidentified stations or wishful hearing.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/answers/ANS0CYPN29G7TES/all-were-hoaxes-misidentified-stations-or-wishful-hearing) Answer ANS [It came down in the Marshall Islands and the crew were taken by the Japanese to Saipan.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/answers/ANS0CYPMYCG623A/it-came-down-in-the-marshall-islands-and-the-crew-were-taken) Answer ANS [It landed on the reef flat of Gardner Island (Nikumaroro); the crew transmitted for several nights, the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/answers/ANS0CYPMWE04Y90/it-landed-on-the-reef-flat-of-gardner-island-nikumaroro-the) Answer ANS [It ran out of fuel and ditched at sea within about a hundred miles of Howland, and sank.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/answers/ANS0CYPMV6Y60MW/it-ran-out-of-fuel-and-ditched-at-sea-within-about-a-hundred) Answer ANS [Aluminium sheet "2-2-V-1" from Nikumaroro](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN4FT4CH3/aluminium-sheet-2-2-v-1-from-nikumaroro) ART [Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN6P40Y78/lockheed-10-e-electra-nr16020) ART [No document, wreckage or grave has been produced in sixty years of claims.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPMYW47EB1/no-document-wreckage-or-grave-has-been-produced-in-sixty) Evidence EVD [The Navy's 1937 conclusion and the simplest reading of the radio log.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPMVPJ76H6/the-navys-1937-conclusion-and-the-simplest-reading-of-the) Evidence EVD [The island was inhabited 1938–1963, so artefacts at the Seven Site have other possible sources.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPMY4P3CJ9/the-island-was-inhabited-19381963-so-artefacts-at-the-seven) Evidence EVD [Earhart and Noonan take off from Lae for Howland Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMNBE5VHY/earhart-and-noonan-take-off-from-lae-for-howland-island) EVT [Fred Goerner publishes The Search for Amelia Earhart, claiming capture and death on Saipan](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMPTA3BSB/fred-goerner-publishes-the-search-for-amelia-earhart) EVT [TIGHAR's first expedition to Nikumaroro](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMQ240760/tighars-first-expedition-to-nikumaroro) EVT [The Navy and Coast Guard search about 250,000 square miles](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMNV22EXG/the-navy-and-coast-guard-search-about-250-000-square-miles) EVT [Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMH6M5HS0/amelia-earhart) FIG [Fred Goerner](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMJDP2V28/fred-goerner) FIG [Fred Noonan](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMHEE2QPZ/fred-noonan) FIG [The disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart) The mystery article MYS [The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/organisations/ORG0CYPMM4C34ZP/the-international-group-for-historic-aircraft-recovery) ORG ## Cite it ``` TIGHAR (2025). The Earhart Project: the Nikumaroro hypothesis and the evidence. TIGHAR. https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html ``` [Read it free at tighar.org](https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html) Key **SRC** 0CYPMC2J1FFE Kind Web page Rights The publisher's Kept 29 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMC2J1FFE/the-earhart-project-the-nikumaroro-hypothesis-and-the/csl.json)