A former Air Force intelligence officer turned explorer claims he has located the resting place of Amelia Earhart‘s plane following an $11 million expedition at sea.
Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo embarked on the expedition last year to comb the bottom of the Pacific Ocean with an unmanned submersible using sonar in the area where Earhart purportedly went down in 1937, according to a report.
Then, last month, data revealed a blurry image of an object that Romeo thinks is the Lockheed 10-E Electra flown by the famed female pilot.
Drone imaging captured the object roughly 100 miles from Howland Island, which sits midway between Hawaii and Australia, the report noted.
“On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today,” Deep Sea Vision posted to Instagram over the weekend with the blurry images.
“Deep Sea Vision found what appears to be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.”
Earhart flew the plane with a navigator in an attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world, but after she never made it home, officials declared her dead following two years of investigations, the report noted.
“Well, you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that’s anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it’s not Amelia’s aircraft,” Romeo said in an interview that premiered Monday.
“There’s no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image.”
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Although the object captured by sonar has yet to be confirmed to be Earhart’s aircraft, Romeo is excited at the prospect of returning to the new location with a remotely operated vehicle and camera to collect better data.
“The next step is confirmation, and there’s a lot we need to know about it … and it looks like there’s some damage,” Romeo said. “I mean, it’s been sitting there for 87 years at this point.”
