Amelia Earhart (L) with her navigator, Captain Fred Noonan, in 1937.Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
- Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous aviators in the world when she vanished in 1937.
- Her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time.
- From her being a spy to her having lived in New Jersey under an assumed identity, many conspiracy theories surround her disappearance.
Amelia Earhart became the first female to fly across the Atlantic 92 years ago.
However, nearly a decade after that flight, the American aviatrix vanished over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe by plane. To this day, the mystery behind her disappearance remains unsolved.
Here's what we know: On July 2, 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, departed from Lae, New Guinea. They were heading for Howland Island, a small island located in the central Pacific Ocean, but they never arrived. By 1939, both Earhart and Noonan were declared dead.
While the case remains unsolved, conspiracy theories abound over the late pilot's fate. Here are five of the most compelling guesses behind what happened to them.