An Oregon-based archeologist is the latest scientist attempting to find Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane and solve the baffling 88-year mystery surrounding her and flight navigator Fred Noonan’s disappearances.
Dr. Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute in Eugene, has assembled a team that will launch an expedition this summer to the remote island of Nikumaroro in the western Pacific Ocean to find Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
After years of acquiring and analyzing satellite, video and drone imagery, Pettigrew believes a metallic and reflective visual anomaly, called the Taraia Object, on the north shore of the Nikumaroro lagoon alongside the Taraia Peninsula is the main body and tail of the missing aircraft.
“I’m well aware of the frustrating history of the decades-long search for Earhart and Noonan,” said Pettigrew, who participated in previous expeditions to Nikumaroro, where some believe Earhart crash landed and died…