New clues have emerged in one of the greatest mysteries of all time: the disappearance of the legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart

Deep Sea Vision, a South Carolina-based ocean exploration company, announced last Saturday that recorded fascinating sonar images of what could be Earhart’s aircraft on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

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The discovery was made possible by a high-tech unmanned underwater drone and its 16-member crewwhich surveyed more than 5,200 square miles of the ocean floor between September and December 2023.

The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaiiabout 100 miles from Howland Island, where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived.

The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart’s aircraft, Lockheed of the Electra, both in size and tail. Deep Sea Vision founder Tony Romeo said he was optimistic about the findings.

Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E

The Deep Sea Vision team plans to survey the area sometime this yearadded Romeo.

On Deep Sea Vision’s Instagram account evideo has been posted of the crew’s investigations and Kongsberg Discovery’s HUGIN the most advanced unmanned underwater droneas reported which spotted the American Airwoman’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world in an airplane.

In an interview on NBC’s Today show Tony Romeo said that “no other known accidents have been recorded in the area and certainly not of that era.”

Romeo, a former US Air Force officer, sold his properties and allocated $11 million to fund the mission to find Earhart’s missing plane.