A $2.2 million effort in July came up with nearly nothing in regards to the search for Amelia Earhart's plane and other clues to the mystery that her disappearance has entailed.
Now, however, researchers have found promising evidence in the form of a video, that could point towards plane wreckage.
In 1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937 during a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean. Earhart was trying to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Ric Gillespie the executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, TIGHAR, said to the Los Angeles Times "We have man-made objects in a debris field" and those objects are "in a location where we had previously reasoned where airplane wreckage should be."
Gillespie says that researches have an agreement with the nation of Kiribati to search for artifacts from the plane wreckage.
What was captured in underwater footage is similar to the location of a photo taken in 1937 that might possibly show the plane's landing gear.
Once returning home the video was scoured by a forensic imaging specialist who highlighted two important spots in the video that showed man-made debris. Using the time code from the footage, Gillespie was able to pinpoint the location which was in the same place that the researches had expected to find the debris, because of the 1937 photo.
Gillespie and his team hope to raise more money so they are able to return and dig up what was found. Another expedition would mean another $1 million in funds, so what has to happen next is raising funds so Gillespie and his team and uncover more artifacts from Earhart's mysterious disappearance.
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