Last shot of the day on a film set, also the last name of the author of this blog. Martin - Latin singular, those soldiers who work for Mars, God of War. A smith. In this lifetime of words, music and film. AKA "The Afterlife Expert" (Coast to Coast AM) If you want to reach me, I can be found on FB, LinkedIn, or Gmail under MartiniProds (my youtube channel)
Robert Ballard found the Titanic. Can he find Amelia Earhart’s airplane?
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will lead a major expedition to the remote Pacific in hopes of discovering the famed aviator's fate.
Best known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic, Robert Ballard will bring his proven undersea search strategy and high-tech research vessel, E/V Nautilus, to the hunt for Amelia Earhart.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EMILY SHUR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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BY RACHEL HARTIGAN SHEA
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Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared more than 80 years ago, on July 2, 1937, during the second to last leg of their around-the-world flight. After taking off from Lae, New Guinea, in Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E, the pair aimed for tiny Howland Island, just north of the Equator. But they couldn’t find it, and despite many attempts, no one has been able to find them.
Now Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is planning to search for signs of the missing aviators. On August 7, he'll depart from Samoa for Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island that’s part of the Micronesian nation of Kiribati. The expedition will be filmed by National Geographic for a two-hour documentary airing October 20.
People have been looking for Earhart ever since she went missing. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy scoured the area by ship and plane for two weeks. George Putnam, Earhart’s husband, enlisted civilian mariners to continue the hunt. Eventually the U.S. government declared that the plane had most likely crashed and sunk into the Pacific.
Apologies for sounding sarcastic. But really? Bob Ballard is teaming up with Tighar to find the Electra... at the bottom of the sea? (I spent two hours with the editor of the National Geographic, as well as two reporters laying out the following details - at the time they told me that if "Someone came to them with a "new theory" they were directed to "run in the other direction as fast as they can." Not my quote - theirs.) Let's break this down for a moment... and Bob, if you're reading this, congrats, I wish you the best of luck... ...but listen up.
Mike Harris, you may remember him; intrepid adventurer, filmmaker, hired Bob to be part of his own search for the Titanic. At the time, Mike had great ideas about where it might be - and took Bob directly over the ship... but they did not see it at the time.
A still from Mike Harris' initial footage.
Mike had already done a number of trips to find it - ran out of them, but then Bob found a new sponsor, WENT BACK to the place Mike Harris had gone and found it. (I'm not telling any stories "out of school" - Bob knows this to be accurate, and doesn't take away from his finding the Titanic. That's how things happen.) But Mike Harris knows where Amelia is located. I think Tighar has done a fantastic job of putting a website together of research. It's where I discovered in the diary of a ham radio operator, she had written on the first page "230 Miles NW" - which was the same number I found in "Last Flight" when she was "200 miles NW of Dakkar" and on a test run of the Electra was "200 miles NW of where she thought she was (according to Paul Mantz.) We hear later on in Les Kinney's research with a different radio operator (in a previous post) that indeed, when she finally made it to safety - or so she thought - we was 400 miles off course to the NW (where Mili is from Nikumaroro).
Let's look at the record, shall we? It's an extensive record, and everything I'm about to say is backed up by eyewitnesses. I can tell you where the Electra is. I've reported it consistently and repeatedly. Here - Bob, my gift - this is a blueprint, and if you follow it and come to a different conclusion, happy to hear it. But when you get to the end, you're going to have to ask me where she's buried - because I know that as well. Amelia turned from Howland for Plan B (as reported by Les Kinney) - which was to fly the Gilberts, the nearest landing strip (Nikumaroro). Alas, she was already 250 Miles NW of where she thought she was - but the coming storm passing to the north of Howland helped blow her to Mili atoll. Where running on fumes, she landed the Electra. Landed the Electra on a long airstrip (at low tide) of an atoll. A feat of great piloting. An amazing feat from a great pilot.
Someone claimed they found this on the cell in Garapan. Tom Devine claimed he saw it. Whoever carved it did so for her birthday.
The brake assembly broke. Pieces of it were found by Dick Spink, a Seattle schoolteacher who brought those pieces to an NTSB investigator who ON CAMERA proves beyond a shadow of doubt that it came from her plane. That footage exists Bob. I suggest you look at it. The pieces were identified by an aviation expert (who has testified before Congress). Two islanders were eyewitnesses. Some of those eyewitnesses were interviewed in a book by a South African journalist (I have a copy) but he interviewed the Queen of Mili as well. Two islanders saw her land the plane and reported it.
NTSB Investigator claims this piece found on Mili fits exactly with his own piece of an Electra that exactly matches Amelia's. As he put it "There were only two made that were in that part of the planet. If this was found on Mili, it could only have come from her Electra."
Then Dick Spink and Les Kinney and Mike Harris returned to Mili. They found more pieces of the Electra as well as an islander who reported that "40 Marshallese men" were ordered to move the plane to a Japanese barge. (the rail cars used to transport it are still there - the drag marks were visible from satellites until the island was swamped recently).
Veteran Andrew Bryce was told by a stevedore he'd transported the Electra.
I interviewed a veteran Andrew Bryce, USN who worked alongside a stevedore in 1944 who claimed he was one of those islanders who "moved the Electra to the barge which took it to a Japanese ship." The Kyoshu. Les Kinney (former Federal investigator) has tracked down the ship's records and found that it was docked in Jaluit, when Bilimon Amaron (who Mike Harris personally interviewed on camera) reported that he was sent aboard the ship to tend to Amelia and Fred's wounds. A Marshallese congressman also saw the plane aboard the ship - where it had been transported. The plane was then transported to Saipan.
Mike Harris shot this footage - a still from his interview with Bilimon Amaron, who tended to her wounds. We interviewed Bilimon's business partner of 40 years (from Boston). He says on camera "We all knew the story. The man was above reproach.If he said he tended to her wounds, he did."
Amelia and Fred were taken by seaplane where they landed in Saipan. I have filmed two eyewitnesses (one still alive) who saw her come ashore, the other was told the identical story by his father. Their stories line up. She was interrogated - Fred was presumed to be the "real pilot" or the "real spy" - and was tortured and executed for being so. She was put in a cell in Garapan prison. I've been in her cell - it's the only one that's been stripped or white washed in the entire compound - but I have eyewitnesses on camera who saw her incarcerated there.
One of two cells she was incarcerated in. This was the cell with her and Fred. After his execution she was moved to a different cell.
She spent years in that cell. I have two Saipanese (who don't know each other) who both reported seeing her transported by Japanese truck just prior to the war. The truck carrying her and two other US pilots (those are part of the record,one was shot,the other beheaded) who were with her. As the man says on camera "I was 12 but it's not something you see every day. A white woman dressed as a man blindfolded and being guarded by soldiers." The truck parked in front of his school for 30 minutes - both he and his brother are still alive and can recall it specifically. Another man in another school told us the same story on camera. (Mike Harris took me to Saipan to find 15 new eyewitnesses.) We interviewed the son of the nurse who tended to her wounds, we interviewed a worker who saw her in prison as well as saw the Electra at Aslito field.
Wire Operator in Marine HQ decoded the message "We have found Amelia Earhart's airplane." Not something he'd ever forget. He also guarded the plane, saw the same briefcase.
Yes, the Electra was taken to Aslito. I've filmed over a dozen people who saw it there. Including a US Marine who decoded the messages that it was found - then was ordered by his CO (whose uniform hangs in a glass case at Quantico) who ordered him to guard the plane. Another GI corroborated the conversation he told me on camera about people wanting to "see Earhart's plane" and how he stopped them with the threat of his pistol. "Orders is orders" he said.
Doug Bryce saw the Electra with his own eyes (and was with other GI's.) It was being guarded in a hangar on Saipan. (He was one of 6 on camera who saw it.)
I interviewed on camera a GI stationed on Saipan (Doug Bryce) who drove with some pals to see the plane. He described the location of the hangar, which I was able to corroborate in my trip to Saipan. In total, I have six people on camera who saw the plane - and 12 in print who watched it destroyed. I have on camera the man who found her briefcase and passport in a safe - carried it for two weeks and turned it over to naval intelligence. I have the wire operator who was in the tent when the briefcase was brought in, who told the same story.
The briefcase that Robert Wallack turned over to Naval Intelligence seen by Julious Nabers.
So you see - I know where the Electra is. You're not looking for it in the right place. You can find it if you want - that would be great - but I not only know where it the wreckage of it is located, I know where her body was moved to. What you may not be aware of is that the two GI's who "dug her up" (as reported by CBS newsman who wrote "Searching for Amelia" Fred Goerner in 1963) those two GIs "only found an arm and a partial ribcage."
Fred Goerner did the initial research. Fred told a colleague of mine that he got a letter from then Congressman Don Rumsfeld claiming "everything he'd found was true."
Why is that? Because she was moved. If you want to know where she was moved to - I suggest getting in touch with me. You can look all you want in the ocean, all you want on Nikumaroro (Elgen Long suggested that artifacts will be "planted there" to make it appear she has been found - I found that to be a bit beyond the pale, but it is his words verbatim, and told me what the object would be) but she was never there - Fred was never there - neither of them sank to the bottom of the ocean or were on a deserted island. Sorry. What happened to them deserves to be told. But it won't be if you begin by looking for them underwater. They were never there. I applaud your desire to solve the "mystery." I applaud National Geographic for getting involved (even after I spent two hours explaining what the eyewitness evidence shows.) But it ain't a mystery if you know where she's buried and where the Electra is currently located, is it? Happy to share it with you mon ami. Stay tuned.
My pal Carol Bowman presenting evidence of reincarnation in some of the cases she's studied. She's a former student of Ian Stevenson at UVA who wrote peer reviewed studies of reincarnation while at UVA, and Carol is also a trained hypnotherapist (trained by the Newton Institute as well) so she's capable of doing some deep digging into the topic. "I'm not trying to verify a case in every past life memory... but I see it as an opportunity to help heal the soul (of the child)." It's a riviting true story. It was her book "Children's Past Lives" that I gave to Oxford professor Robert Beer that led to his suggesting I look into Michael Newton's work that put me on the Flipside path. If you have a couple of hours to learn about something mind bending; watch this. (And read the comments in the section below - other parents sharing their details). Her talk starts 50 seconds in (after the MUFON commercial) but Carol is the real deal. A scientist who has opened her research up to the possibility of the continuity of consciousness. Bravo! Thanks for sharing Carol Bowman!!!!
A letter I got today (and meant for those who have lost a loved one, and how to communicate with them. Sharing with permission. Thx Tim). Dear Rich, I'm feeling compelled to contact you. I've read or listened to most of your books. I've just completed BACKSTAGE PASS #1. (With Jennifer Shaffer)
I'll do my best to keep this as short as possible. My wife left the planet May 2017. We had a closeness in life that we couldn't explain nor could any of our friends or family understand. We didn't believe in death and would often joke about " whoever left first was cheating". We knew we'd been together before. When she became ill it simply seemed like what was supposed to happen. Most of our affairs were in order but during the last few months we worked together on her memorial service and as well as what my life would be like by myself. Never really believing I'd be alone. What I didn't realize was I had spent so much time on the practical, I wasn't prepared for the spiritual. For a while, after she passed, I felt disconnected. It was discouraging. I knew I was the disconnect. Looking back I know it was her idea but I went back to the same books that had began to open our eyes 24 years before. Ten minutes into the first audio book I found her. It was a hot day I was doing yard work while listening. All of the sudden the hair on the back of my neck stood up, goose bumps on my whole body and tears I couldn't control. In that same moment I heard her unmistakable voice. "I'm here". Before I could mentally compete the word "really?" She answered "yes". Since then we've had an ongoing, moment by moment conversation. I hear her voice, her cadence, her words. Things I would never think or say. I've felt her leaning her head on my shoulder as we walk arm in arm in the evening. There are times I get too busy but if I just take a deep breath and slow down we're together. I've tried to keep notes on dreams and most of the significant encounters we've had. If somehow it would help someone I would like to share them. (I just thought to write that I don't know how to do that. Very loudly I heard "yes you do ") She's always been a step or two ahead of me. I don't know how unique we are. She's told me the Veil is thinning. That this is something being worked on over there and we're helping. Someday soon it will be normal if it's not already. Most of the time I haven't any doubt it's her. But there's times when it's really hard to not think it's just me and a good imagination. I was wondering if you have a speaking engagement in the Los Angeles area or better yet near Palm Springs. I'd really like to attend and maybe spend a few moments speaking to you. I'd really appreciate your feedback as non of my friends or family are prepared in any way to approach this topic. If our paths never cross, that's really ok. I've learned that what's supposed to happen will. Best Regards from both of us." Can't think of a better or more important post. It's not about me sharing what I've learned - it's about people sharing what they've experienced, including when loved ones stay in touch with us from the Flipside.
Today's session with Jennifer Shaffer was typical in the sense that it was mind bending. As usual. So today we chatted with two individuals. One is a teacher on the flipside. We met her once before, during a session where Jennifer's father Jim was asked "So what are you up to on the flipside?" and he took us to his classroom where he's learning astrophysics. It's not like he waved us over to his class - he actually took Jennifer on a deep space trip, brought her to a "classroom" that seemed like it was "on the other side of the universe" where we met his teacher. She told us her name, but recommended we just call her "Miss X" - as in "Madame X" or "Ms. X" because it was too hard to impart her particular name. (This is a chapter in "Backstage Pass to the Flipside" where we visit this classroom in deep space.) However, I must add that she seemed like someone who knew a vast amount of information, and Jennifer did her best to download what she was saying, what she looked like, etc. In her physical description, she said that she had "eight arms." So today, while chatting with Jennifer the topic of the bees dying from the recent earthquakes came up, and we decided to discuss it on camera in the midst of our noisy restaurant in Manhattan Beach. I asked "Who wanted to come forward and talk to us about the bees?" and Jennifer described this same teacher. She did not remember where we'd met her before, but I did (that's what I'm good for, remembering obscure details) and I introduced them again. "This is your father's astrophysicist professor" - Jennifer saw her in a high necked cape with her "hair" up on her head. When asked about what color her hair was, Jennifer said "It's like looking at a prism. There are many colors." (Never heard that description before.) For those of you who are coming to this blog for the first time - I apologize. I recommend picking up a copy of "Flipside" then "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" and then "Hacking the Afterlife" where we meet Jennifer, and the two books we've done together "Backstage Pass to the Flipside: Talking to the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer" to get to a place where you might be able to say "Oh yeah, so they're talking to a teacher who is from a classroom on the flipside." There are thousands of students that attend her classes - we've seen that before, Jennifer sees them as "a string of lights" - of people learning from her about all things astrophysics-like. In this case, I asked "So what's up with the bees dying off in California during the quake?" She said "it's their frequency." As bees have a highly tuned system that the earthquake had thrown out of kilter. "It's the equivalent of getting cancer - the bees don't get cancer, but the disruption of their inner core causes them to die." I asked if anyone on Earth were aware of her as a teacher, and she said "Many know me as a deity in India." Okay.
This deity's name is Durga.
I'm familiar with 8 handed deities - having been to India a bunch, Tibet as well - and am aware of how the 8 arms aren't there to help with performing a task but represent a metaphor. Each arm is an accomplishment - could be compassion, wisdom, truth, etc. I asked if she had any message to people in India who might follow her or know who I'm referring to. She said "They're losing faith in the ability to believe in avatars." I argued with her - cause like, that's what I do - that my saying "People of India! Have more faith!" was pretty much what has caused many wars in India over the centuries - where faith becomes an issue and wars are born out of those arguments about whose deity is more important than another religion. (I've been to India many times, and it's one of the most fascinating, ancient, spiritual places on Earth - but I'm just saying. Who am I to tell anyone to "Have more faith?") She didn't accede the point. She just wanted to offer that "People in India will know who I am, and I represent "truth" to them." After the session, I looked up "8 armed deities" and found only one. So that was unusual. She is called "Durga" by devotees, and represents: "Durga (Sanskrit: दुर्गा, IAST: Durgā), identified as Adi Parashakti, is a principal and popular form of Hindu Goddess.[3][4][5] She is the warrior goddess, whose mythology centres around combating evils and demonic forces that threaten peace, prosperity and dharma of the good.[4][6] She is the fierce form of the protective mother goddess, willing to unleash her anger against wrong, violence for liberation and destruction to empower creation.[7]" (Wikipedia) So well, there you have it. Showed up in a restaurant in Manhattan beach to explain that bees are dying because the quake messed up their guidance systems, their frequency - that it messes with everyone's frequencies, but in the case of bees, they can't handle it. (Paraphrasing.) Now you know. (Not really, but just reporting.)
Same deity different artist (Durga) Each arm represents a different metaphor of knowledge.
On to more mundane topics. So I asked "Anyone else need to reach out to us?" Jennifer said "Well, Tom Petty popped into my head yesterday, then you (Rich) popped into my head, so I don't know what that means." I said "Well, let's ask him - he's a member of our class."
He said he had a specific message for his daughter (or daughters, he has two.) He said he wanted me to pass along that message to her. (He didn't say them, he said "her.") #adriapetty #annakimviolette I asked him what that message might be. He told us. I said "Tom, Mr. Wilbury, I can't pass that message along. First your daughter is never going to hear that message from me, or understand why I'm saying it. You have to give me something that will prove to her (or them) that this is you speaking to her (or them)." Jennifer said "He's showing me a belt buckle. It's sparkly." I said "Is it silver, gold..." she said "Rhinestone. Or diamonds. But it's a sparkly belt buckle that he gave his daughter." I clarified. "You mean he gifted her this, or it's part of something she inherited?" Jennifer replied, "He says "It was a gift." He said "Also a car." I asked if the car was a gift, he said "No, something she inherited." I asked him for the make or color of the car. Jennifer said "It's classic. I'm seeing that it's a convertible." (Jennifer has no clue what cars Tom Petty owned or didn't own. I can look them up and I have. He had a few.) I said "Okay, so if I mention in a blog that Tom Petty showed up with a specific message for his daughter who got a sparkly belt buckle and a convertible, that person will know that this message is directly from Tom?" "Yes." (Okay, #adriapetty #annakimviolette - your pop has something to tell you.) I said "Well, I hear your message loud and clear - but it's not something I can write in a blog, or a post, so what I'm suggesting is that I will write this up into my blog, tell them via hashtags that I got a direct message from you, and if they want to hear it they should reach out to Jennifer. Is that okay? Because even if they reach out to Jennifer and don't tell her who it is that is calling she will be able to pass along this message." (As I've filmed her doing in the past.) He said "Yes." (And for those paying attention, recently a person showed up to chat with us from the flipside, and after that chat, I reached out to his widow, did not tell Jennifer anything about this, and filmed this woman speaking directly to her husband as an experiment. Jennifer had no idea who was coming to our session, and she correctly identified who he was, how many kids they had together, and what she had brought in her purse that were his. All on camera.)
Got that? Tom has a message for at least one of his daughters - maybe both - and it has to do with an issue that's important to him and he wants to reach out directly to them - and they can ask Jennifer what that message is and hear what it is. (JenniferShaffer.com) I am happy to pass it along. But I doubt that anyone reading this would believe what he had to say to me - someone who never met him, didn't know him - but he has shown up a number of times in our class (and is the source of the title "Backstage Pass." He said "waiting to have Luana (my friend on the flipside) help people to access Jennifer was like someone waiting for the person with the list of people who get backstage passes.")
Our moderator on the flipside; Luana Anders
So there you have it. If you know Tom's daughters, or your know the publicist who knows Tom's daughters, forward this on to them; I recommend having them reach out to Jennifer (they can be anonymous if they like) - she works with law enforcement on missing person cases, as well as has correctly identified any number of details about specific people. You can reach out to me as well - MartiniProds at gmail - is my email address. I spend some part of every day answering basic questions there - but I am happy to pass along this message direct from Tom. And save the bees!
