An award-winning writer as an active-duty Navy and civilian Department of Defense journalist and public affairs officer, Mike Campbell retired from federal service in 2008. After meeting Thomas E. Devine, author of the 1987 classic, Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident in 1988, Campbell was convinced that Devine, Fred Goerner, Joe Gervais, Paul Briand Jr., and others were correct when they proclaimed the presence and death of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on Saipan after their disappearance in July 1937. After fourteen years of collaboration with Devine, With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart was published in 2002 by a small Ohio company. In 2005 Campbell edited "The Atchison Report," an extensive debunking of the notorious and false Amelia Earhart-as-Irene Bolam theory, first presented in the 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives. The report was distributed to researchers and other interested parties at the 2005 Amelia Earhart Festival, at Atchison, Kansas, Earhart's birthplace. He lives in Knoxville, Tenn.

, with his wife, Nee, and his cats.