An expedition will go in November to investigate object seen in lagoon
Interesting but smells fishy to me. I’d be very surprised if anything came of this.
Thy will not, of course find anything other than perhaps some downed trees that long ago were washed or blown into the lagoon.
However, what they will do is report that they couldn’t do a thorough investigation because of lack of time/running out of money/bad weather/Bob getting seasick on Tuesday so they’ll need even more money to do another trip to Nikumaroro soon. They’ll pull up a Google Earth image of the island, point to random shadow somewhere in the lagoon or on the reef, and claim that this is certain proof of Earhart’s plane.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Not surprising after all this time under water.
She’s in Davy Jones’s locker! Enough already, let the woman rest in peace.
Are you saying The Monkees are hiding Earhart?
Maybe we should redirect our efforts to Oak Island?
Or the Nazi gold train hidden in Poland? Maybe Earhart is down in that mystery tunnel.
We have yet to completely disprove the intriguing theory of the Bolamites, or quelled Fortean Society claims that Earhart and Noonan were victims of Dogmatic Science.
It is very likely some sort of plane, but that doesnt mean it is THE plane..
The navy flew over that island, and the Brits landed and investigated in 1937.
TIGHAR made several expeditions there already.
More than that. There was a settlement and a USCG LORAN station – about 25 Americans and another ~75 British settlers – on the island for nearly three decades before being abandoned in the mid-60’s.
If Earhart’s Electra was/is on the island and readily visible from the air as TIGHAR believes it to be it almost assuredly would’ve been found long ago.
Nah, the beaches aren’t nearly as nice on Oak Island, and it’s cold there.
She is hiding in the Amber Room.
Sigh. I keep reading the title as: “Amelia Earhart’s phone found on the sea floor?”
It’s only slightly less plausible at this point.
My thoughts exactly. I find it highly implausible that someone has thought her plane was exactly there and so far no one has gone for it. I think it will end up being a bid for funds.
Sand in shallow water is constantly shifting. So it’s (just barely) believable that an airplane-sized thing could sit on the bottom, then be buried enough to stay hidden, then later be re-exposed sitting on the bottom in more or less the condition it had been in when buried.
But those odds are real bad. While the odds of a money-grab and the opportunity for yet another few Discovery-like TV shows to breathlessly milk the credulous while finding nothing are very very good.