President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to declassify and release all available files regarding Amelia Earhart‘s disappearance.

The pilot disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, while attempting to become the first woman to fly across the globe.

“I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart, such an interesting story,” the 79-year-old wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday, Sept. 26.

“Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again. Her disappearance, almost 90 years ago, has captivated millions,” he added of the American aviator’s legacy.

He concluded, “I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

In early July, Kimberlyn King-Hinds, a Republican who represents the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, asked Trump to declassify documents related to Earhart’s disappearance.

She referenced the release of documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in her request to Trump, arguing that the late pilot’s story “carries particular weight” in her region.

“A number of elderly residents still recall her presence in the Pacific, with some sharing credible, firsthand accounts of having seen her on the island of Saipan. These memories, passed down through generations, continue to fuel interest in uncovering the full story of her fate,” King-Hinds wrote. 

“Despite these recollections, her disappearance and the possibility that she may have died on our islands remain matters of unresolved historical inquiry,” King-Hinds continued. “In pursuing clarity for my constituents, I have become aware that the U.S. government may still hold documents or records related to Earhart’s journey and final whereabouts that have not yet been made public.”

According to CBS News, documents previously released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act that were marked “confidential” stated that Earhart was not a spy, as some theories have claimed, nor was she held as a prisoner after a crash landing in Saipan.

Earhart was traveling with her navigator, Fred Noonan, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra when the duo vanished while in flight from New Guinea to Howland Island during Earhart’s attempt to make history as the first female pilot to fly across the globe. 

Before the disappearance, Earhart radioed a U.S. Coast Guard cutter named Itasca that was stationed near Howland, communicating that she was running low on fuel. The Navy searched the area extensively, but after two weeks, Earhart and Noonan were declared lost at sea.

“It’s one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century,” Dorothy Cochrane, curator of general aviation at the National Air and Space Museum in the Smithsonian Institute, explained in a 2007 editorial for the museum’s magazine.

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