Search for Amelia Earhart’s plane comes up empty, but researchers did find something

The latest search for Amelia Earhart's missing plane has come up empty, and a promising clue

in the nearly 90-year-old mystery turns out to be something much less exciting

Researchers say the mysterious object was likely trees. Researchers from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute traveled to

Nicaroro, a remote island in the South Pacific. They were investigating a mysterious object spotted in satellite images in 2020

Some researchers believe Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on the island after disappearing in 1937

but the expedition found no evidence linking the object to Earhart's plane

Instead, researchers say it was likely a collection of large trees washed up on the shore