Ric Gillespie

First became aware of it when a man named Michael Ashmore brought this satellite image of it to his attention.

By the way, the only reason why people are even looking at Nekomororo relates to the work that also deserves credit, and that's the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, led by Rick Gillespie.

They've developed this concept called the Castaway Hypothesis.

which points to much evidence, a huge amount of evidence that they've amassed since the late 1980s for the proposition that Amelia and Fred Noonan did not crash at sea, which was the conclusion of the Navy and Coast Guard after that incident.

Sure.

We are building our efforts on prior work by, principally by a group called TIGHR, which stands for The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, an organization founded and led by someone named Rick Gillespie, based in Wilmington, Delaware.

They got a clue in the late 1980s.

They were already a, a nonprofit that specialized in finding and identifying lost aircraft.