Purdue Research Foundation

And, uh, they're giving it a couple more days.

Uh, Purdue Research Foundation funded the flying laboratory.

Uh, and they're like, "We want our money back.

We're gonna get this back." And so they threw her out there.

Are we any closer to solving this mystery, or have we simply become more sophisticated in the ways that we search? Let's get to work.

As of October the 12th, 2026, the expedition organized by the Archaeological Legacy Institute, with support from Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation, has arrived at Nicamaroro.

That's right, they're there, right now.

The team traveled approximately 830 nautical miles before reaching the remote atoll.

... off the shore of an uninhabited island.

Uh, they are partnering with Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation to complete the mission.

Yep.

Uh, says Ren Larocca, who's with the Legacy Institute, "The quilt of American aviation history is rich and vast, and there's one square missing, and that's what happened to Amelia Earhart." The Terea Object Expedition, as researchers have named it, Teria, sorry, refers to the Teria Peninsula.

... off the shore of an uninhabited island.

Uh, they are partnering with Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation to complete the mission.

Yep.

Uh, says Ren Larocca, who's with the Legacy Institute, "The quilt of American aviation history is rich and vast, and there's one square missing, and that's what happened to Amelia Earhart." The Tarea Object Expedition, as researchers have named it, Tarea, sorry, refers to the Tarea Peninsula.

That's right.

And Purdue Research Foundation believed so much in what she was doing in terms of her continued aviation efforts and not only her desire to set records, but also to study the effects of long distance flight, for example, on the human body and so forth, that they created the Amelia Earhart Fund in Aeronautical Research.

They raised about, I think, $2 million in today's money.

And she used half of that money in the form of a grant.

Amelia was trying to become the first person to fly around the world at the equator when she disappeared, along with her navigator Fred Noonan, somewhere between Papua New Guinea and Howland Island in 1937.

In addition to the photo of an object in the water, the Purdue Research Foundation says radio bearings converge there, human bones discovered on the island were a similar size to Earhart's measurements, and artifacts found nearby include a woman's shoe, a jar of freckle cream, and a medicine vial that dates to the 1930s.

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... off the shore of an uninhabited island.

Uh, they are partnering with Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation to complete the mission.

Yep.

Uh, says Ren LaRocca, who's with the Legacy Institute, "The quilt of American aviation history is rich and vast, and there's one square missing, and that's what happened to Amelia Earhart." The Terea Object Expedition, as researchers have named it, Teria, sorry, refers to the Teria Peninsula.

She was on faculty at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as a career consultant for women students.

And the Purdue Research Foundation did not just support her work academically.

They funded the purchase of the Lockheed Electra ten E that she flew on her final flight.

Over sixty thousand dollars at the time, which is serious money in any era.