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Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? + Mystery of 1,900-year-old weapons in remote cave - C C - Jan 28, 2024
These particular "Eurekas!" has been futilely repeated for decades. If not for her having been real, it would be akin to the search for the Loch Ness monster.
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Is this Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane?
https://www.wsj.com/science/amelia-earhart-lost-plane-found-843e9e9c?st=05ins844ghznvsn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
EXCERPTS: . . . Tony Romeo, a pilot himself and a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, is the latest in a string of adventurers to plumb the Pacific Ocean in search of the plane Earhart was flying in 1937 when, at the peak of her fame, she vanished.
In December, Romeo—who sold his commercial properties to fund his search—returned from an expedition with a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object resting on the ocean floor. He believes it’s Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra, and experts are intrigued.
The location where Romeo said he captured the image is about right, said Dorothy Cochrane, a curator in the aeronautics department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and sonar experts who have viewed the image agree that it’s unusual enough to take a closer look.
Romeo said he plans to return to get better images. “This is maybe the most exciting thing I’ll ever do in my life,” he said. “I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.”
[...] Experts who have seen the image said they want to see clearer views of the object with details such as a serial number that matches Earhart’s vessel.
“Until you physically take a look at this, there’s no way to say for sure what that is,” said Andrew Pietruszka, an underwater archaeologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, who leads deep ocean searches for lost U.S. military aircraft and the soldiers who went down with them... (MORE - missing details)
Archaeologists baffled by 1,900-year-old weapons in remote cave
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-baffled-1900-year-old-weapons-remote-cave-1864402
EXCERPTS: Ancient hunting instruments dated to around 1,900 years ago have been discovered in a remote cave in Mexico—and archaeologists said they were puzzled by the location of the find.
[...] The archaeologists, under the supervision of the cavers, had to ascend more than 600 feet from the bottom of a ravine to reach the entrance of the cavity. They then had to pass through a narrow passageway until they reached the gallery.
Within the gallery, the archaeologists identified an ancient atlatl (a spear- or dart-thrower) and two wooden darts, as well as some modified logs that were probably used for digging but may have been used as multifunctional tools.
During their explorations, the INAH researchers did not find any other pre-Hispanic archaeological artifacts in the cave that would have enabled them to propose an explanation for how and why the hunting instruments ended up in the cave. However, an analysis of the samples will be announced on Saturday at a lecture series held in the Templo Mayor Museum, Mexico City.
One of the archaeologists, Carlos Viramontes, said the hunting instruments provide evidence of hunter-gatherer societies, which were present in the region since around 7000 B.C., or 9,000 years ago. Among the traces that these hunter-gatherers left behind are hundreds of rock art sites... (MORE - missing details)
RE: Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? + Mystery of 1,900-year-old weapons in remote cave - Zinjanthropos - Jan 28, 2024
5000 m down is deeper than the Titanic wreckage. I guess carbon fibre submersible out of the question. Anyways I just get the feeling it’s another dead end. Do you really think Romeo used his own money for everything? Does finding it mean big bucks for a documentary?
Rubbing the crystal ball I get the feeling, somewhere down the road as we venture deeper into space, there’ll be a legendary astronaut and craft lost to posterity.