"Sonar Image Sparks Hope in Amelia Earhart Plane Search"

Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo, who sold his commercial property investments to fund his search, believes he may have discovered the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she vanished in 1937. Using high-tech gear, including an underwater drone, he captured a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object on the ocean floor near Howland Island. Experts are intrigued but not ready to definitively confirm the find, requesting clearer images with details such as a serial number matching Earhart's plane. Romeo plans a return expedition to obtain better images of the mysterious object, which has sparked interest from the Smithsonian and other experts.