Researchers Spent 4 Days Investigating a Possible Amelia Earhart Wreck. Here’s What They Found

In 2020, an amateur researcher spotted an elongated, white object while browsing through Apple Maps satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the West Pacific. In those blurry photos, it almost resembled an aircraft not unlike the plane Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world in 1937.

The unusual shape, which came to be known as the Taraia object, immediately captivated researchers who had long searched for Earhart’s plane. Could she and Noonan have landed…