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For those that may know what I am talking about... TIGHAR is a group trying to find Amelia Earhart's plane.

I was reading some of TIGHAR's articles and was wondering if anyone else thought their conclusions were perhaps a little far-fetched.

<a href="http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/11_20_01%20Bulletin/mysteriesbull.html" target="_blank">http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/11_20_01%20Bulletin/mysteriesbull.html</a>

If you would read the last paragraph describing the types of artifacts found such as a water tank and artifacts from the Coast Guard station.

Now here is a list of the artifacts they claim cannot be ascribed to any of those mentioned activities.

<a href="http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/11_20_01%20Bulletin/castaway.html" target="_blank">http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/11_20_01%20Bulletin/castaway.html</a>

Artifact of 2-6-S-21b
Artifact of 2-6-S-16

These in particular make me wonder... there would be no way to tell if these artifacts, or any that they found were from the colonists, Coast Guard or from a Castaway. Only possibly by microscopic anaylsis of the edges would show if they were used as tools. The time from 1937 to the WWII occupation of the island by the coast guard would not have been enough to give researchers today a good indication of what was there first and what was the result of later occupation.

Here are even more that they found but need help to I.D.

<a href="http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/help/help.html" target="_blank">http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/help/help.html</a>

So to my point, I was wondering if any other researchers shared my viewpoint that to infer that a bunch of nuts, bolts, and glass fragments were the result of a castaway from 1937(A.E.) and not from the WWII occupation of the island seems a bit far-fetched. Sounds more like wishful thinking rather than science.

Is there any published reviews of TIGHAR's research that examines the validity of their claims? Any critics? I cannot seem to find any independent review of this groups work. Peer reviews... come on there has to be someone!