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Explorer's Sonar Image May Finally Help Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery - Everything You Need to Know

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Aviator Amelia Earhart’s famous disappearance launched decades of speculation and fruitless searching. Now, businessman and ocean explorer Tony Romeo may have finally solved the 87-year-old mystery with the help of cutting-edge sonar technology.

At the end of a recent months-long search for Earhart’s lost plane, a researcher aboard Romeo’s ship made a surprising discovery: Their sonar drone had captured an image resembling an aircraft 16,500 feet below the Pacific surface.

“In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft,” Romeo said, according to The Associated Press.

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Ole Braatelien has written for The Western Journal since 2022. He earned his bachelor's from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.




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