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A long-awaited Purdue-backed search for Amelia Earhart's lost plane will soon get underway with the hope that the endeavor will solve the decades-old aviation mystery at last. The expedition, organized by the Purdue Research Foundation and the Archaeological Legacy Institute, will send a 16-person team to the Pacific Island of Nikumaroro to investigate a peculiar anomaly spotted in satellite images that resembles a small aircraft downed in a lagoon. Since first being noticed back in 2020, the so-called 'Taraia Object' has tantalized Earhart researchers who wondered if the oddity could be the pioneering aviator's famed Lockheed Electra.
More on this promising story at the Coast to Coast AM website.