MUCH hoopla has been made over the latest unconfirmed sighting of Amelia Earhart’s airplane that disappeared in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Explorers continue to spend millions and millions of dollars trying to solve a mystery that is not a mystery at all.
Several locals became aware of her presence on Saipan and later reported on what they had seen with their own eyes or heard with their own ears. These select few people, including my father, were all credible citizens with no reason to lie or fabricate a story. My father told me that in 1937 he was working at the dock when he saw a Caucasian woman with short hair arrive on a Japanese cargo ship. She was placed in the old Japanese jail where a short time later she died of dysentery. She was buried in Garapan where STaR Water company is today. Her Lockheed Electra was pushed off the Agrigan Point dumpsite with other military equipment.
I cordially invite and encourage these would-be do-gooders to come to Saipan and search the old military dumpsites off Agrigran Point which is only hundreds of feet deep and near the cliffline. It would be faster and cheaper.
STANLEY T. TORRES
Former CNMI House member
