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Aerial footage from 1938 provides ‘very strong’ evidence of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane: researchers

October 2, 2025
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Newly discovered aerial photos taken in 1938 of a mysterious anomaly on a remote island in the South Pacific provide “very strong” evidence that it may be Amelia Earhart’s missing plane, researchers claim.

Footage of the strange metallic sight located underwater in a lagoon on the island of Nikumaroro — captured a year after the pioneer aviator disappeared 88 years ago — now bolsters scientists’ belief that the “Taraia Object” is Earhart’s legendary Lockheed 10-E Electra, Purdue University announced.

A 15-person crew — made up of researchers from Purdue and the Archeological Legacy Institute (ALI) — will set off on Nov. 4 for the island, located between Hawaii and Fiji near the center of the Pacific Ocean, to investigate the enigmatic find, believed to be the main body and tail of the missing aircraft.

Aerial photo from 1938 showing a visual anomaly in the Nikumaroro Island lagoon, circled in green, with a white arrow indicating North.
Aerial photo from 1938 showing a visual anomaly in the Nikumaroro Island lagoon. heritagetac.org

“Finding Amelia Earhart’s aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” ALI executive director Dr. Richard Pettigrew, who has long believed that Nikumaroro hides the secret to Earhart’s disappearance.

“Other evidence already collected by The International Group of Historic Aircraft Recovery establishes an extremely persuasive, multifaceted case that the final destination for Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, was on Nikumaroro. Confirming the plane wreckage there would be the smoking-gun proof.”

The three-week expedition will zero in on the “Taria Object” — a mysterious shape first spotted in 2015 satellite images on the north shore of the Nikumaroro lagoon.

Aerial image of the Taraia Object, potentially Amelia Earhart's plane, in the Nikumaroro Island lagoon.
Pettigrew believes he located the main body and tail of Earhart’s missing aircraft. heritagetac.org

The search team is due back on Nov. 21.

“A successful identification would be the first step toward fulfilling Amelia’s original plan to return the Electra to West Lafayette after her historic flight,” Steve Schultz, senior vice president and general counsel at Purdue University, said.

“Additional work would still be needed to accomplish that objective, but we feel we own it to her legacy which remains so strong at Purdue, to try to find a way to bring it home.”

Richard Pettigrew, Sirisha Bandla, and the Amelia Earhart expedition team members pose with a statue of Amelia Earhart and a replica of her Lockheed Electra 10E plane.
Richard Pettigrew, Sirisha Bandla, and the Amelia Earhart expedition team members pose with a statue of Amelia Earhart and a replica of her Lockheed Electra 10E plane. Purdue University

The pioneer aviator, who began working at Purdue in 1935, disappeared with her flight navigator, Fred Noonan, on July 2, 1937, during her historic ill-fated attempt to fly around the world.

The pair set off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, with plans to refuel on Howland Island before continuing their journey to Honolulu and their final destination of Oakland, Calif, but faced a strong headwind in Lae when Earhart’s radio transmissions eventually went silent. 

The US Navy and Coast Guard conducted a 16-day search for the missing duo without success, and Earhart was officially declared dead on Jan. 5, 1939. 

Amelia Earhart in a flight suit sitting on the wing of an aircraft.
Earhart disappeared with Noonan on what was to be a record-setting trip around the world in 1937. Purdue University

Despite many attempts and millions of dollars spent over nine decades, neither Earhart’s remains nor the wreckage of her plane have ever been located – with the latest million-dollar expedition by Tony Romeo and his Deep Sea Vision team debunked last year.

Romero, a South Carolina-based deep-sea explorer, captured a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object he believed was Earhart’s plane in the Pacific Ocean, which was later confirmed to be a rock formation. 

Last month, President Trump announced he would declassify and release government records tied to Earhart and her final flight.

The post Aerial footage from 1938 provides ‘very strong’ evidence of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane: researchers appeared first on New York Post.

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