San Diego Man Finds Letters Written Days Before Amelia Earhart Disappeared

A San Diego man has found a long-lost letter that is considered the last known correspondence from Amelia Earhart and her navigator before their disappearance, reports FOX5.

Earhart and her partner Captain Fred J. Noonan went missing during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe nearly 84 years ago. The case is still one of history's greatest mysteries.

There has been very little evidence found of the pilots and the Lockheed Electra plane.

Now, new clues have been found thanks to Hunter Person of San Diego.

Person first learned of the letters when he was a teenager. His mother discovered them and tucked them away 40 years ago. She explained to him that Noonan had been a close family friend and they exchanged letters since she was 15 years old.

The four letters were handwritten by Noonan while he traveled with Earhart. Person's mother Beverly was a teen when she received the letters between 1935 and 1937.

“It was exciting finding it after all those years, because it was kind of lost for a while,” Person told FOX5.

Hunter recently decided to share the letters publicly, showing them to experts with the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

“This is the last great unfound mystery,” said Jim Kidrick, with the San Diego Air & Space Museum. “They found the Bizmark, the German battleship, they found the Titanic, and other things in the world, but this is a mystery everyone would like to solve.”

Person hopes one day the letters may help provide some answers to what happened to Earhart and Noonan.

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