There’s evidence that a photo crucial to the theory was published two years before Earhart even went missing.
A week after a new theory about Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance made waves, a Japanese blogger has produced evidence that seems to debunk its credibility.
Investigators working on a History Channel special about the iconic aviator posited that a photo found in a National Archives file depicted Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock in the Marshall Islands, with a ship towing her plane in the background. As TIME noted when the theory was put forward, they theorized that the photo could mean that Earhart did not perish in a crash, but was instead rescued by a Japanese ship.
