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Well, this is fascinating. After 88 years of speculation, could the mystery of Amelia Earhart
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finally be solved? A team from Purdue University says there is very strong evidence they have
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located Earhart's long-lost plane, pointing to this satellite image of a visual anomaly
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in a lagoon on a remote South Pacific island. The object, dubbed the Toria object, has appeared
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in photos as far back as 1938, just a year after Earhart and her navigator vanished
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Researchers plan to head to Nicomororo Island next month to scan, lift, and possibly identify
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what they believe could be the famed Lockheed Electra. Earhart had planned to return that
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very plane to Purdue, where she worked before her final flight. If this really is the lost Electra
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her final mission may still land where she hoped in a truly roundabout way
