Thousands of documents related to Amelia Earhart, the aviator who vanished in 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world, were published online by the National Archives on Friday and billed as an effort to increase transparency about her disappearance, but Earhart experts said the collection was a dud.

More than 4,600 pages of documents were released, including at least one photograph and a number of documents that were already available to the public.

The wreckage of Earhart’s final flight, which she took with a navigator, Fred Noonan, has never been found, casting their disappearance in a sheen of mystery that has long enticed professional and amateur historians as well as conspiracy theorists.

Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said in

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