Lockheed Model 10 Electra

Okay, it's going to investigate what they call the Tayara object, a visual anomaly located in a lagoon on Nica Umaromaro.

Expedition members hope to determine whether the object is the remains of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10-e aircraft which disappeared on july 2nd 1937 while air heart and navigator fred newman attempted to circumvate the globe now you'll notice that was july 2nd 1937 dorothy's article is 1934.

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the expedition is based on the hypothesis hypothesis which holds that Earhart and Noonan landed and were marooned on a remote island between Hawaii and Australia after failing to reach their intended stop on Howland Island.

We're at day two on Nikumaroro.

And we're with the team on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, where they've set up operations and begun an underwater survey of a mysterious plane-like object spotted on satellite images.

And now they're searching beneath the lagoon floor for clues.

We're still very early in the phases of our work.

They're scouring this lagoon on uninhabited Nikumaroro Island because of this mysterious object spotted on satellite camera.

They believe it could be Amelia Earhart's missing Lockheed Electra plane

planeWe're still very much in the data gathering phase.

The team is led by two Americans, Steve Scholz from Purdue University, and Richard Pettigrew from the Archeological Legacy Institute.

Wow.

Yeah, if, if you Google it, so I was like, and then of course the morning everyone was, was, uh, phoning me to be on the news and everything like that, and my, my face- you know, it's a terrible thing, but my, my Facebook picture, it's me holding the Stanley Cup.

So most people thought I was a hockey player, and so they were asking me about the thing, and they're, "Oh yeah, by what year did you win the Stanley Cup?" And I was like, "Well, '93, I guess.

That's the last time Canada won it." [laughs]

Yeah, it's on, it's on YouTube right now.

Um, yeah, Pixelated Heroes.

Uh, I'll go to the guy, like, so, uh, it was of course, uh, a guy named Mark Lesser designed it in his basement in Maine.

Didn't know much about hockey, designed probably the best hockey...

Purdue University in Indiana announced on Monday that the seventeen-person TeRaria object expedition team arrived at Nikumaroro Island after a five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.

The team is investigating mysterious anomalies spotted in satellite imagery that some researchers believe could be Earhart's lost Lockheed Electra.

Earhart disappeared on July the second of 1937 while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe by air.

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished during one of the final stretches of their trip after they had departed Lae, New Guinea for Howland Island.

They think this is where Amelia Earhart set her plane down, on this atoll island in the middle of nowhere, roughly 400 miles off course from where was- where she was supposed to be.

In case you don't know the, the real backstory of how this all kind of unfolded, on the morning of July 2nd in 1937, they were supposed to refuel on this flight around the world in her Lockheed Electra, which is a spectacular, beautiful airplane, by the way.

And a runway was built for her at Howland, known as Gardner Island.

It's part of the Phoenix Island chain, but again, it's about 400 miles away from this particular i- island, Nikumaroro.

You gotta go through all the, the, you know, j- jump through the hoops and get there.

They finally made it there, and they say that they are maybe a day or two away of finding out whether or not this particular anomaly is, in fact, her plane, which was a, uh, Lockheed Electra 10E plane.

They're using sonar to examine this, uh, mysterious object, uh, there in the water.

But here's the, here's the part of the story that, uh, got my attention because this has been going on for a week or so.

If you missed this, it's an expedition team from Purdue and the Archaeological Legacy Institute.

They are checking on what they believe is Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E plane in a lagoon off the coast of this very remote island.

Now, stormy weather did hurt their efforts yesterday, but expedition members say they expect to have a definitive answer on the object in the next couple of days.

They're focusing on a satellite image that was captured in 2020.